REMEMBERING: Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

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Our card this week is Marjorie Kristi Luna, the four of Spades from Florida.

From the outside green acres seemed like a picture perfect place to grow up, a park, a school, a corner store, stocked with sugary sweets and arcade games, all within walking distance.

“For Kristi and her friends, weekends, were spent roaming the neighborhood and playing outside”

barefoot. But this storybook community had darkness lurking just under the surface. And it reared its ugly head, one may evening in 1984. More than 40 years later, Kristi's friends are peeling back the layers and piecing together memories from their childhood, finding that what actually lay beneath was much darker

than they ever could have imagined. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. It was Memorial Day Weekend, 1984, and green acres small town police department was probably preparing for a bit more action than usual. Hopefully nothing too bad, but it was possible that they would get a call to shut down

some out-of-hand fireworks, bust around backyard barbecue maybe. But on Sunday May 27th at around 10-15 pm, police got a call for something far more serious, something I'm almost sure they didn't see coming in their close-knit community. A mother, phone to say that her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie Luna, who went by Kristi, hadn't come home that evening.

Detective William Springer with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office recounts that Kristi's mom, Jenny, told police that she, her boyfriend, and her two daughters, had just returned home that afternoon from a weekend getaway. They drove up to Titusville, came back, stopped at two parks, Jonathan Dickinson State Park, and then they stopped at the due-boys park.

Then they came home, it was early in afternoon, they retired because they traveled all night. Kristi slept, because she was a little slow, and they all went to bed, and Kristi came in and said, you know, the cats are hungry, I'll go get cat food, and she got some change, and she went to the store, which is right around the corner.

Kristi's older sister Allison had woken up their mom around 830 pm to tell her that Kristi still hadn't come home since taking off some time between two and three that afternoon. Now before getting police involved, the family took to the neighborhood themselves to see a baker find Kristi at any of her usual spots, like the store, the park, her friends' homes.

But after close to two hours of this, the freckled face hazel-eyed little girl was nowhere to be found, so that's when they called the police. Law enforcement went on to do the same sweep the family had, and since they knew her

plan was to pick up cat food, naturally one of the first places they started out was the

neighborhood store, Belks. Green acres are just a small, sleepy little town with a store downtown that all the kids walked, because it was right there, it's not that big an area, and you could almost still rock from the house to the store. Everybody's kids walked to the store, and they came home.

“Works at the store told police, they remember Kristi coming in, buying cat food, and watching”

other kids play arcade games before leaving by herself. Based on all of our research, it sounds like Kristi could have been there any time between two and five PM. Right after she left, there were witnesses who placed her outside by a house that was directly across the street within view of the store.

I talked to the people that lived in the house at that time, and they were young kids too,

“and they remembered Kristi being there talking to them and watching fireworks, and the”

one year old told me, "Yeah, I saw her walking back towards her house," and that's it. In the days following Kristi's disappearance, deputies scoured the surrounding areas with canine units, and on-mounted horses. They searched wooded areas, and low-lying bodies of water in and around green acres, looking for any signs of Kristi, but their findings were about as bleak as the weather that week.

It rained for nearly 10 days straight, which I assume made searching all the more difficult, and may have also washed away potential evidence. Of course, like any other missing child's case, the parents had to be closely bedded. Detective Springer told us that Jenny and her living boyfriend at the time Larry cooperated fully.

Police questioned them both, and they also agreed to polygraphs, which Springer said they passed. Investigators also looked into Kristi's father, but he'd been living in Atlanta at

“the time, and they confirmed that he'd been there hundreds of miles away at the time”

of the disappearance. In addition, investigators talked to Kristi's neighbors, and schoolmates, including her best friend. Since she was a minor at the time, investigators aren't releasing her name. She was a little girl, just six years old, who bravely shared a disturbing story when police

spoke to her. That's when we discovered one of Kristi's friends was being molested by Chuck and Willis Rambo. So they then became a primary, people of interest. So Warrens were a team, she only gave us Chuck as one, and later on then she said Willis. Both Rambo brothers lived in green acres on the same street as Kristi, about a block away.

There was Charles, then 31, who went by Chuck, and Willis, who was 26 at the time. Now it doesn't seem like the little girl police spoke to indicated that she had direct knowledge that Kristi had also been sexually assaulted by the Rambo brothers, or that

“they had anything to do with her going missing.”

From what we can gather, no one police spoke to describe Kristi acting differently or distant leading up to her disappearance. The kind of signs that might have been a clue that she too was being abused. But still, these men would have had access to Kristi. Detective Springer said that Kristi's friend was often over at the Rambo house because

their sister was her babysitter. So Kristi would come by to visit and play. This made investigators theorize that maybe Kristi had wanted to see her friend after stopping for cat food. Her friend wasn't home at the time, so maybe Kristi had popped by the Rambo residents

to see if she was there instead. And there was someone else in green acres who connected Kristi to one of the Rambo's two. An article in the South-Loreson Sentinel stated that Ellen Belk, a clerk at Belk's General Store told police that she had seen Chuck Rambo giving Kristi money at the store on

one occasion in the past. Detective Springer thought that both Rambo brothers said that they'd been home at least at some point the day Kristi went missing, meaning that they would have been nearby since they lived in the neighborhood. But it sounds like no one police spoke with back then, could actually place either of

them together with her. Still, they had enough to arrest Chuck, and then, pretty soon thereafter, Willis. Chuck actually confessed to sexually assaulting Kristi's friend during an early taped interview with police.

And although both men ultimately pleaded guilty to loot assault in that case, for one reason

or another, neither of them served any jail time, just ten years probation a piece. Both Chuck and Willis denied ever assaulting Kristi or having anything to do with her going missing. We searched the house, we kept the house the whole weekend. I mean, we went through that house, top to bottom, everywhere we couldn't find anything.

That would indicate that Kristi was murdered there. But that didn't mean they weren't still suspects. In an attempt to follow up on every single lead, police conducted several searches for Kristi at locations associated with the Rambo brothers. Willis worked at a retirement place with a golf course, and the rumors were that he

quit Kristi down a well, we went, and we dug deep.

They had to build a ramp for the front loader to get down in to dig deeper that we never

found anything. While there was nothing directly tying the Rambo brothers to Kristi's case, they remained on law enforcement's radar until something else or rather someone else shifted their focus, another child predator who may have encountered Kristi the day she went missing.

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Police in Florida got a new lead when Exeter PD, all the way up in New Hampshire, tip them off about a then 41-year-old man named Victor Winnettie. While Victor was out on parole after serving time for sexually assaulting his 13-year-old stepdaughter, he became a suspect in the disappearance of another young girl up there. 8-year-old Tammy Blancher.

He worked close to the area where she went missing. He didn't show up to work that day that she went missing. And somebody got a tag off a car that was somewhere in the area. When detectives in New Hampshire started looking into Victor, they were able to arrest him almost right off the bat because they realized he violated his parole

by having previously left the state to go to none other than green acres Florida. In his possession were children's underwear and photos of young girls that appeared to have been taken secretly from outside their windows. Now just to be clear, the underwear didn't belong to Christy and none of the photos were of her either. But when detectives in New Hampshire learned of the only girl who went missing while

Victor was in the area, they started putting two and two together. According to reporting in the South Florida Sun Sentinel, he was more than just in the general area. They reported that Victor was specifically seen at a party in the neighborhood and matched the description of a man scene outside the corner store the very day Christy vanished. But when we asked detectives springer about those two

specific details we found in the paper, they didn't necessarily ring any bells for him. He recalled that maybe Victor's family had thrown a get together at their house at some point that memorial day weekend, which would have been nearby but not in the same vicinity as Christy.

“Either way, I thought that this was important to know in case there is any truth to it.”

He went back to jail, prevallating his parole for coming to Florida. In 1990, Victor gets released from prison, comes to Florida, and as soon as he gets in Florida, they share his office tag team starts following you. They follow him 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They have pictures and video of him looking in these bedroom windows. Sure enough, there's little girls in that

bedroom that he's looking in. So they follow him for almost a month. He never tried to

pick anybody out. He had a couple locations. He was looking through windows. So anyway, when he started trying to get in through the front door one night, they're resting. When they put him in jail, there was a group of inmates that said that Victor would sit in the chair and watch

"Well, they'll never find them." I mean, he more or less was admitting that he'd killed both

“them and they'll never find it. And these inmates are just having a field day throwing Victor”

under the bus. I interviewed him and he swarmed down and he never had anything to do with Christy or a Tammy. He said he wasn't even in the same cell blocks, same part of the jail as these people that were talking and giving him a problem stuff. This could have been encouraging. Should have been encouraging for a detective like Springer. If these other inmates were telling the truth, it might help in the case against Victor. But Springer remembers that his gut questioned it because

of his years watching how convicted predators behave in prison. In my experience over the years, the child molesters, they don't go to prison and talk about their crimes because they know that the inmates don't like that. So I could not believe that Victor is sitting in a local jail telling everybody how he killed his girls. And nobody did anything to him. I just found that a little bit unbelievable. I thought I'm going to find out if this is the truth, if what they're saying is the truth. So

I found the one inmate I interviewed him and he said, oh yeah, he told us all this stuff. So I said, would you be willing to take a polygraph? And he says, yeah, we polygraphed him. He failed. I asked him, why did you lie? He said we wanted to give her mother some closure. So he admitted it was all fabricated and then I tracked down another one and talked to him on the phone. And he said, yeah, we made all the stuff up. Even though he somewhat saw this coming, it was disappointing nonetheless.

Way down the line, Victor eventually got out of prison and ended up passing away shortly thereafter, without ever being charged with anything related to Christy or the other missing girl from New Hampshire, Tammy. And even though those two inmates admitted to Detective Springer that they lied about his alleged confession, he doesn't think that we should count Victor out when it comes to Christy's

case. I would never say that he didn't. I just don't think that he told anybody he did. And my whole

career I've never had any child molester, anybody like that really sit down and tell all the other inmates that they did this to some little girl. Despite hitting roadblocks with both of the Rambo brothers and Victor, investigators seem to have a specific profile in mind when it came to identifying potential suspects. Men with a track record of grooming and abusing children. It wasn't like it was a dangerous area where guns are being fired. People were shooting and

people were stealing kids. It was just a nice little plot neighborhood. Except when we started investigating it, we found that there were a few child molesters in the neighborhood. But back then, there was no record up anybody company records. He didn't know until you started running their

“history. You have to realize something. And I'm not defending families. But a lot of times back”

in the day they would say, don't let your kids around Uncle Bill or don't let your kids around Uncle Ralph. Because they all knew that Uncle Ralph was in molester. For some reason, it was like a family secret

they never wanted to do anything. I think it was the embarrassment. We worked and we interviewed

so many child molesters back then. And we just couldn't come up with anything. And then eventually the lead starts fading away. But there was yet another sexual predator looming in the area who investigators hadn't known about until way later. One who didn't surface until their phone rang out of the blue one day with a distressed woman on the other end. She told them they needed to look at her own husband, William Ferris, for Christie's disappearance. See, back in May of 1984,

this family lived directly behind Christie along the same path that she may have taken through her neighborhood that day. And the wife said that she would often be out late with the kids on Sunday giving her husband ample space and time to commit a potential crime. And now she had discovered that he may have had the MO2. He would have never came on the radar until he got arrested.

“He got arrested up in Virginia for arresting his grandkids. And I think another kid. And of course,”

his wife really, really was upset. And as soon as he got arrested, she called Osom. And said we need to look at him. And she said that Ferris had made a statement one time to her that one of these days, one of those girls is going to go missing. And then after Christie went missing, he said, well, they'll never find her. She's down on alligator alley. So I went up to Virginia

he didn't know Christie and he never said those things. And his attorney was going to get him off.

That he was guilty of this. Well, that didn't happen. Williams since passed away, but he ended up serving life in prison in Virginia on those other charges. And detective springer even tried taking another crack at him, post conviction, thinking maybe now that he seemingly had so little left to lose, he'd be more open this time around. I went up to talk to him. If he ever interviewed sex offender, a child molester, it's never their fault. It is never their fault. If you listen to

“some of these people, I mean, they would make you sick, really sick. That's why I never like working”

child molestation cases. The sexual matters were bad enough. The child molestations were really bad. It's hard for an investigator to hear about, but it's even harder for the children, now adults of green acres who lived it. All reporting team met up with two of Christie's old friends, Brenda and Jennifer. They sat down together for their interviews supporting each other through a difficult conversation. As they told us, how Christie's disappearance had a major impact

on the kids that she left behind. Here's Brenda. Anybody from our childhood, anybody from our era who was born in the 70s and the early 80s, and you were growing up in green acres, when someone mentions to them, "What do you think of when you think of green acres?" Christie Luna. That's it's Christie Luna every time. Brenda lived in the same neighborhood as Christie along with Jennifer. The three wood were hers their cheerleading moves together at the park. But as they grew up,

Brenda and Jennifer lost touch. Christie's disappearance had been a poignant part of their childhood,

what had happened to her was never really forgotten, of course, but almost repressed far in the past.

That isn't till one day in 2007 when the deeply painful memories from May 27, 1984 came flooding back for Jennifer. I was working in healthcare and we were getting ready for shift change and I was preparing my report and we had a big long table in the department and there was a TV right there and I was on a computer and I hear Jenny, Christie's mom, if anyone has any information about the disappearance of my daughter, please come forward. Yeah, she would come out every year on the

anniversary and they would air something and it was like lightening through my body. It was like lightening through my body and I knew I had to say something. I didn't know if anything that I told them would be helpful. I was afraid that little girl in me was so alive again. Right after I heard that I had a medical crisis and I thought I was going to die and I knew I couldn't take it to the grave and that was when I knew what I had to do, everything in my life changed

at that point. I had to make some healthy changes for myself, my kids at the time and then I eventually went to Jenny's house and knocked on her door and she listened to me. Sorry, she wasn't. I'm going to let Jennifer tell the story she told Christie's mom, her own story. It's what she's

“able to recall from the day that she believes was the same day Christie disappeared. I remember being”

in the park and I remember wanting to play with someone but you know I was I was just swinging on the swing again the same spot and Christie came up to the fence and I just I remember this

part so vividly because she was always full of energy and the way I remember it as she came up

to the fence and she's bouncing up and down you know like we want to play you want to play and I don't know what she said but she was bouncing up and down and I told her I was waiting for the man to finish in the bathroom because he came up and he said did you leave change in the bathroom and I said yes and he said you can get it what I get out and I said okay so to recap Jennifer told us a man had approached her at the park asking if she'd left change behind in the bathroom

while she hadn't actually dropped any change the little girl said yes excited about the prospect of being able to buy herself a treat at Belk's store. Jennifer remembered Brenda also being present there at the park during that first part but then the man went into the bathroom and Jennifer did what he'd asked waited for him to come back outside so she could go in and collect the change but he

“never did and I just remember waiting and waiting and Christie knew I was waiting for him to get out”

in the bathroom so she took off I'm assuming as I think back she probably went to the store because

peek in and I just see sorry go slow I peeked in the door and I just see this change scattered all across the floor it was just it wasn't pennies it was quarters and dimes and I mean it was like it was like a treasure chest you know and I just remember seeing that and I didn't see him anywhere in there and I went in and I got on my I was on my knees and I'm scooting across the floor and I was just

“gathering the change I could distinctly remember that there was a drain I just remember this drain”

in the middle of the floor it was like right smack in the middle of the bathroom collecting the change and I hear this sound behind me and I turned and that's when I saw him standing there he wasn't wearing anything and like within like a nanosecond within like a flash he grabbed me toss

me to the side I think I must hit my head first I thought he maybe hit me in the head with something or

or whatever I don't know but I smacked my head on the bathroom floor and he got on top of me and he was trying to get my underwear off and the next thing I remember is I hear Christy coming in what are you doing to my friend what are you doing to my friend I hear a loud thud and I don't remember anything after that and the the next thing I do remember is clank clank clank on the door someone saying wrap it up parks closing I come to wake up whatever and I recollect the change I get it my hand I

walk out of the bathroom out of the men's room and right outside of the men's room there is a police officer and another man talking by they had these like half sheds and the police officers back

“was towards me and the park I wanted to say it was a park attendant I don't know and I just remember”

thinking I'm going to get in trouble I'm going to get in trouble and I walked up to him with the change in my hand and I said this man left this in the bathroom he patted me on the back and he said I guess it's your lucky day kid and that was that was I was scared I was scared to leave I went over to the slide I went up on the slide and I put the I just remember putting the coins down on the top of the slide and it was one of the slides it had like a cover over over top and I was

putting the the the chain sorry I was putting the I was putting the change in like order you know

quarters, dines, nickels and and that was I was it that was it and I never said anything I never said

anything I never said anything. After Jennifer came forward to Christie's mom the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office got on board and everything evolved from there because Jennifer had recalled Brenda being at the park when the man came up asking about the change detective springer tracked her

“down and as it turned out Brenda did remember an unsettling event involving a strange man and pocket”

change taking place at the park but in her recollection Christie wasn't there and she and Jennifer got away unharmed. Eventually Jennifer came to the realization that both incidents had occurred she just been merging bits and pieces from two separate memories together likely due to the trauma she endured. The time when Brenda and Jennifer were together happened about a year or so prior to Christie's disappearance and it went like this a man came up to them at the park and tried luring both girls

into the bathroom using the same ruse with the change only this time Brenda recalled that she and

Jennifer never actually entered the restroom because when they peaked underneath the door great to see

if it was okay to come in and collect the change Brenda could see that the man was standing there with his pants around his ankles waiting for them so she and Jennifer took off and got away safely Brenda alerted her mom who then called green acres PD. Brenda told us that she and her mom returned to the park with a police officer and the man was still there. Brenda was able to point him out saying it was him but it doesn't appear anything ever came from this. Maybe that was because

technically a crime hadn't actually occurred since he was behind a door in the men's restroom so it probably wouldn't have counted as exposure or anything but looking back both Brenda and Jennifer see it for what it was and attempt to bait two children. Brenda said her mom told her that she remembered the officer telling her that the guy claimed to be from out of town and that he'd written a bus in. There's no record of an official police report so we don't know what name

that man gave if any. In 2009 before the two women ever reconnected both Brenda and Jennifer separately worked on sketches with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in an attempt to identify

said to myself it's not the same personal but they look a lot alike and I'm wondering if they're

“not related. It wouldn't be until 2016 that Brenda and Jennifer would reunite. They were each”

vaguely aware that they both communicated with law enforcement but at least for Brenda she hadn't

been fully privy to the details about exactly how this might all be related to Kristi but finally

Brenda reached out to Jennifer through a Facebook post about Kristi's case and Jennifer responded. They met up in person and dove head first into it all. They shared their experiences at the park Jennifer's devastating assault and her memory of Kristi barging in while it was happening. This reunion ignited a spark that has since turned into a raging fire, a quest to find Kristi and figure out who those men were.

The two women told our reporters that they'd been shown pictures of suspects in Kristi's case before

“but as they would have looked more recently, older men and none of them triggered any epiphanys.”

I don't need a picture of some 70-year-old pedophile. It was only until Jenny Kristi's mom gave us

some of the articles that we were able to come across a newspaper article with Charles Rambo in a newspaper article with Willis Rambo from the time in which everything took place and then that's when everything made sense. And Jennifer says she's so sure of this. I mean you can hear her hitting the photo she was showing us. If you ask me if this is Charles what I can tell you is it was that man. If that man is named Charles or Chuck then yes that was the man that day

in the bathroom with Kristi. That was him. And Brenda said she recognized his brother as being the man who tried coercing them both with change during the earlier incident. I can confidently say

“from old newspaper articles looking at Willis's picture that that's the man that I saw in the”

park that day when he approached us and asked us if we had thrown any change on the bathroom floor. We'll have photos of the Rambo brothers from these old newspaper articles that covered them along with Brenda and Jennifer sketches up on the blog post for this episode so you can check them out. We think they had no problem with a few children together because maybe one was the luring that day and the other one was look out because because when Kristi came into the bathroom he was

on top of me still. So someone silenced her. As a reminder the brothers never served time after

cleaning guilty to loot assaults on Kristi's other young friend. They only served probation. Later on in 1993 though Willis Rambo was convicted of sex crimes against his own young stepdaughter. He's currently serving life at a Florida prison for that. However neither man has ever been charged in connection with the allegations surrounding Jennifer, Brenda, or Kristi. Our reporter Madison reached out to Willis in prison with a letter but at the time he recorded this episode

she hasn't heard back. As far as detective springer knows, Charles, Chuck Rambo never had to register as a sex offender and is now living free in Tennessee. Madison tried writing to him too, tried calling and texting every number she could find associated with him but so far nothing. Despite the fresh investigative leads, Jennifer and Brenda's courageous accounts had provided, investigators would need corroborating evidence to bring any charges and finding fresh evidence

so many years later is hard. In an effort to bring forward additional witnesses, Brenda and Jennifer got detective springer's blessing to set up the missing Marjorie Kristina Kristi Luna Facebook page, dedicated to sharing Kristi's story along with their own, hoping to jog memories and encourage others to come forward too. And others have. Jennifer told us that several other women who also grew up in green acres have opened up about their experiences with child predators. Some thought

their assailants resembled the men in Jennifer and Brenda sketches. At least one recounted a similar play of a man trying to lure her into the park bathroom with change. In turn, Jennifer and Brenda have been able to connect them with detective springer so that investigators can keep track of the different reports and try and glean any potential connections with what may have happened to Kristi. And in 2019 investigators received their most promising lead in years, all thanks to that Facebook page,

and the tip actually pointed to someone new. A man named Guadalupe Martinez, who has since passed away. Although it doesn't appear he had a documented violent criminal history,

he molested kids and was very violent and that his septic tank was open and that he would always

check it. The septic tank lead was busted and then he would empty it sometimes with a pocket he would dump it. And get this. This is the same guy who's family was hosting the fireworks that Kristi had reportedly stopped to watch that day after stepping out of Belk's store. So for that reason, this tip felt really promising. Was it possible Kristi had a run-in with this man while she was over there? Looking back at old newspaper articles, there was a report

from the Orlando Sentinel that mentioned witnessing a Hispanic man talking to Kristi outside of Belk's store the day she vanished and that she was possibly offered change by that man to go inside and by fireworks. Well, that description is way too vague to decipher if this could have been Guadalupe or not. I thought it was worth noting in case there is any connection. As a result of that 2019 tip, a team of investigators and forensic anthropologists got permission to excavate outside of the home

where he'd lived back in 1984. Thinking it was possible they'd find Kristi's remains. We were there for a good week with him going through every bit of dirt and we took out. We had a septic tank company that cleaned out their truck so that it was spotless and we put everything in there and then when they dumped it they went through every bit of it. But they got down inside the septic tank and actually scraped the bottom of that septic tank and went through

everything in that septic tank and we came up with nothing. A new lead hit another dead end. It was a

“huge blow for investigators. But both Brenda and Jennifer feel like the key to all of this could”

still be somewhere buried in their old neighborhood. Right now we're at the community center because we went to go over to the pavilions in the park in the bathroom and it's all blocked off because they're getting ready to tear it all down and build it's a future site of the Green acres youth center. Our reporters Madison and Emily traveled down to South Florida and took a tour of Green acres with Jennifer and Brenda and when they arrived at the Ira Van Bullock Park, the site of their own encounters

with the men they believed were the rainbow brothers. They were filled with mixed emotions. I have a pit in my chest right now. Like I really do it's like the weirdest feeling to stand here and look and see that I mean I don't know if it's because we're hoping and thinking that

“the past holds the secret and by taking this down you're removing the past from us and now”

I don't know if the secret is going to be buried with it or if this is a good thing and something

will come from it. Sadly Christy's mom Jenny was diagnosed with leukemia. She wasn't feeling well enough to sit for a formal interview but as Jennifer and Brenda were showing us around she popped out of her house to say hi. The house on Broward Avenue is the same one she lived back in 1984. She even moved away for a bit but ended up returning. She wanted to be there in the same familiar spot in case Christy ever found her way home. For about a decade or more she kept a massive

missing poster of her precious daughter displayed in the front yard for all to see and she's been fighting for more than 40 years and while she hasn't given up since she was diagnosed with cancer she's informally passed the baton to Brenda and Jennifer who she's dubbed Christy's Angels. Christy's best friends took over for me thank God. We love you. Love you guys too. It's felt so bad that I couldn't do it but you understand we want you to rest. It's also a lot that's

you're already not feeling well and this is a lot to also to relive. Yes. So I knew I couldn't go back to the beginning and do it all because it's a big toll on me so there are my fighters now. I thought of them I said I can't do it who's better to do it than me as Christy's best friends. She would be so proud of you guys. Staying in green acres is a complicated dichotomy. Even just visiting and Jennifer and Brenda feel it too. Wanting to move on from this place but

“still holding on to hope that the truth is somewhere hidden here just waiting to be uncovered.”

The mission has always been about Christy to find her dead or alive and bring her home.

Whether it be sharing Christy's story here on our platform, searching for answers themselves,

Even though it can be triggering, she is why they're more willing to relive the trauma.

There was an absence of her on TV and it upset me that her face was not still out there and it made me question why and I thought why did they forget about her and why is she not in the

“public eye? I think a majority of it is about awareness and letting everybody know that they're not”

alone and they have some place that they can go. Helping just one person is a lot but if you can

help more, it's better and we just want to make sure that we're making a voice for those who can't be heard like Christy. She can't speak for herself right now. She needs us more than ever. We are her voice right now. We have to be. We're not just her voice but all the other voices of those who are missing and can't be found the rest of the deck. They don't have voices. We, we need to be

“their voices now and that's how we find them and that's how we bring them home.”

If you know anything about the disappearance of Marjorie Christy Luna in Green Eggers Florida on May 27, 1984, the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, please come forward. And if you had encounters with anyone named in this episode or even similar encounters as described with many didn't know, detectives want to hear from you too. Perhaps you hold the missing piece to solving this mystery

“and putting a terrible person behind bars for whatever life they have left. You can remain anonymous”

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