[narrator] Kristen Galvan disappeared January 2nd, 2020.
[Robyn] The police wrote her off as a runaway.
Kristen did not run away. She was abducted,
and taken, period.
This is where Kristen fell into this dark world
of child exploitation and child sex slavery.
[narrator] Her family is desperate for answers.
[Robyn] It's just the lack of response
and return phone calls
of our local law enforcement,
it's appalling.
Unless it's your own daughter, nobody cares.
[narrator] This episode ofDisappeared,
re-traces Kristen's last known steps.
[Charles] Finding out that Kristen was on Bissonnet was devastating.
That kinda evil lurks out there.
We're talking murders, prostitution, everything.
[Robyn] Kristen was coerced, Kristen was lured.
[sobbing] It's every parent's worst nightmare. I'm living it.
[sighs] I've gotta find my baby.
[narrator] The more people who know Kristen's story,
the greater the chance of bringing her home.
Share on social media, get the word out.
Help find her.
[narrator reading]
[Robyn] I'm Robyn Cory, Kristen Galvan is my daughter.
Kristen was 15-years-old when she disappeared
on January 2nd, 2020 in Montgomery County, Texas.
She was visiting her grandmother,
and she is originally from Houston, Texas, born and raised.
Growing up, she was just the light of the world.
She'd walk in any room, and-and--
she kinda looked like Shirley Temple, if you will,
with those little curls and just, natural bounce.
She loved Elvis.
She'd go and dress up just like Elvis
and do "I'm All Shook Up."
She was definitely a character. [chuckles]
Kristen has two little brothers,
and she loves her brothers so much.
Kristen is passionate about her family, her friends.
But, Kristen's father has not been in the picture
since she was three-years-old.
Charles came into Kristen's life when she was ten-years-old.
[Charles] I'm Charles Cory, I am Kristen Galvan's step-father.
She was just really playful, laughed a lot,
you know, just kids that age, they don't have a lot of worries.
Kristen always had a smile on her face for sure.
[Robyn] Kristen was gifted and talented since third grade.
She loved to sing, she had the voice of an angel.
And we had a very strict schedule in our family,
you know, school, Girl Scouts, some sort of sport activity, home.
In the mornings, you know, my wife would, you know, cook breakfast,
and we'd have pancakes,
and it would just be that good energy of just,
"Hey, what's your plans for the day?"
Kiki, I call her Kiki.
She loved school when she was younger.
But, high school was when it kinda started going downhill.
[Robyn] At the end of freshman year,
she did start to act kind of different.
More and more pulled back from the family.
So, in 2019, when Kristen started her sophomore year,
Kristen did have a shift change in her friends.
And that's when Kristen began to skip class.
[Charles] It just seemed like typical teenage behavior.
She started getting involved with the wrong people, you know what I mean?
She started acting out, being on her phone a lot
and doing stuff on her phone.
She'd skipped school and I-I said, "Kristen, give me your phone.
You cannot have social media without me having the passwords."
And, I began pulling apart her Instagram messages.
It was-- it was people in her high school, but older.
These boys just seemed like a bunch of gangsters.
And these were new friendships full of empty promises.
Literally, "Hey, we'll buy you a Louis Vuitton bag."
I just thought it was a really, you know, bad boyfriend,
and we needed to get her away from him.
[Charles] Robyn had found some stuff on the phone
that wasn't gonna put up with.
I confronted her about it, it was a big fight over the phone.
[Robyn] November 1st of 2019,
we woke up and she was gone.
There was a note from Kristen
saying that she was going to make her own way, don't look for her.
[Charles] Well, from the letters, she was saying,
she wants to go get money.
And that this is what she wants to do,
and, you know, she's gonna handle it
and all this talk and all this jive talk.
She was 15-years-old.
You know, she shouldn't be doing that.
[Robyn] So, I started calling her phone, of course, I was blocked.
I went to log in into her social media,
and her passwords had changed.
And, I'm calling the police.
The cops said, "She's a runaway.
She'll come back home."
[Charles] They literally didn't do anything.
It makes you feel terrible,
'cause you can't do anything, hopeless.
[Robyn] When I saw that note, I almost knew somebody was in her ear.
I had it in my gut.
It was a complete nightmare.
I was scared.
After a week and a half, my phone starts ringing.
It was-- it was Houston Police Department
and he said, you know,
"Are you Robyn, mother of Kristen?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Well, we have her."
And he said, "We picked her up on Bissonnet Street."
And I'm thinking, "Picked her up on Bissonnet Street?"
And he said, "Well, ma'am, we'll talk about that later.
We want you to meet us at Texas Children's Hospital."
I go to Texas Children's Hospital.
And... there's police officers.
And then I see my daughter.
Kristen's just in tears.
Bruised, pale.
Her hair wasn't brushed, she had nails out to about here.
And she also had $4,000 cash on her.
And that's when the police officer said,
"We think she's been trafficked."
[Kaitlin] My name is Kaitlin Monte, I was a local journalist
and news anchor in Houston
and I was the first person to cover Kristen Galvan's case.
Houston has a huge black eye called Bissonnet Street.
People refer to it as "The Blade",
it's essentially Houston's red light district.
Easily, any given night,
you can anywhere from ten to several dozen young women,
and men who are out on the street.
There are hundreds if not thousands of people being trafficked.
Human trafficking is when young men and young woman
are sold for sex or sex acts
usually by a group of men.
Houston police picked Kristen up on Bissonnet
when they recognized that she was clearly a minor
and not able to be consenting to performing sex work.
[Charles] Finding out that Kristen was on Bissonnet was devastating.
Crushing.
That kinda evil lurks out there.
We're talking murders, prostitution, everything.
[Robyn] By the end of the hospital trip,
as a mother, I'm thinking,
"Do I bring her home with me?"
We decided it best for her to go live with my parents.
They're up in, you know, Montgomery County in The Woodlands.
[Kaitlin] Now, Montgomery County is 40 miles outside of Houston
and is considered a really safe and appealing area,
particularly for families.
So, it's very reasonable that that would be a much better place
for someone like Kristen to go
particularly if you knew that there was issues related to her, uh,
having anything to do or any ties to Bissonnet.
[Robyn] So, when Kristen, you know, went to my mum's house,
it's a hour and a half away.
I was still calling her everyday
and I was still going pretty much everyday to go see her.
I had to keep Kristen away from her brothers,
because I don't want them to see all this drama.
It took her a couple weeks to really start to come forth.
But, she later opened up and told me everything.
Kristen said her boyfriend told her to write a nice, lovely note.
It was all planned.
Her boyfriend would buy her bags.
But, she said, "It turned dark so quick, mom."
She said, "He drove me out there on Bissonnet Street."
And Kristen said she had to sleep with 20 guys a day.
You know, if you didn't have that money,
it was hell to pay.
She's like, "Mom, what they did to me was wrong.
Like, I really thought he loved me."
[Kaitlin] Traffickers use what's called "the Romeo effect",
which is sort of a romantic relationship.
It doesn't start off as a threat.
And then, it's not until you get too deep
that you realize, "I can't get out of this."
[Robyn chuckles] Before she went missing,
Kristen claimed this boy as her boyfriend.
And he told her, 'Hey, I'm gonna buy you the world.
You're so beautiful.
You're gorgeous, you deserve the world.
I'm gonna give you the world."
Flattering her and kind of, grooming her,
to believe this.
And, I just didn't hit it at the time.
I knew that he was bad, every red flag was there.
[Charles] She literally said, "You do not know what these people did to me.
You have no clue what these people did to me."
She wasn't the same person, you know, in her eyes.
She's wake up shaking, crying, sweating, just--
this kid was sweating profusely,
screaming with her nightmares.
You know, these guys have really gotten in her head,
basically, like brainwashing.
[Robyn] So, we called vice, we called HPD
and they came down, got more statements.
We gave 'em the phone.
Yeah, I believed that these detectives were doing the best of their ability
to get these traffickers
so this wouldn't happen again or to anybody else.
I had no clue what was about to come.
The psychiatry appointments began pretty quickly.
We started therapy.
And she finally began to write in her journal.
She started to feel better about herself,
you could see, kind of, you know, the light coming back into her eyes
and she was visiting with her brothers more
and she was making so much progress.
So, Christmas time was good.
Kristen was planning to go back to school in January,
to a different school, of course,
and to get back into school, she needed a phone.
So, we thought it was time to--
yeah, maybe it's time for you to have your phone back.
And we were monitoring her on it,
you know, it was in the kitchen
she couldn't have it at all at night.
I was a 100% nervous about giving her the phone back,
you know, 'cause she was highly influenced.
[Robyn] January 1st of 2020,
we were at my mum's house.
We'd had our New Years meal,
and it seemed like a pretty, you know, normal day.
She seemed okay.
I was planning on coming back the next day and seeing her.
My dad woke up the next day and she was gone.
Kristen did not leave any notes this time.
Kristen did not leave any indication of anything.
She was just gone.
How am I gonna find my daughter?
[Robyn] My baby's missing.
And I'm panicking.
And what do I do as a parent?
Kristen took her phone with her.
We kept trying to call Kristen's phone,
but I was blocked.
We only had her for like, a month and a half.
And she's gone again.
[Robyn] When she was rescued that first time,
she was scared for her life.
She was so persistent.
She's like, "Y'all don't understand, I have to go.
They're going to kill you all.
They know where you live, they know where grandma lives.
Mom, I have to go."
[Kaitlin] Once you're tapped by this dark underworld
of human trafficking and sex trafficking,
it is hard to get away from this network.
This is not just one pimp who comes, meets you
and takes you down to Bissonnet.
These individuals work for, essentially, the mob.
And that network is very powerful and terrifying,
and so, it is really hard to feel safe again
and many young women and men who get pulled into sex trafficking
will return to it over and over
because they don't see any way out
and they're threatened that their families and their loved ones
could be harmed if they were to leave
or do anything that would impact the business.
When Kristen went missing the second time,
Kristen's boyfriend was in custody.
So, he insists he has no idea what happened.
But it is easy for the sex trafficking ring
to put a new pimp in place when you arrest one.
So, it's possible that Kristen was lured back
by someone within her boyfriend's sex trafficking network.
Of course, she was scared, of course, she's upset.
She's a little tiny girl, she's a little girl.
She don't know anything else.
She was lured and brainwashed,
and when you're a young girl like that, you're influenceable.
You go off, like, what p-- people tell you.
And if you're being led this way, I mean,
that's the way you're gonna go.
I couldn't believe that the police didn't offer her protection.
I was scared that Kristen was lured back to these men
because she got her phone back.
It's estimated that trafficking victims can be recovered by their traffickers
as many as seven times,
uh, because they have an investment in you.
Kristen was coerced.
Kristen was lured.
Kristen was groomed.
She might've left the house because she wanted to protect her family,
she might've left the house because she was lured out
by the same psychological tricks that lured her the first time.
We don't know. We don't know why she left the house.
But, we know that she's not been seen since.
[Robyn] I was scared.
So, we reported her immediately missing.
I did make that flyer.
But, the police wrote her off as a runaway.
Kristen did not run away. She was abducted,
and taken, period.
[Charles] She's a young 15-year-old girl
that has just been sexually assaulted by multiple men,
and you have evidence of this,
like, why wouldn't you take action?
[Robyn] I mean, the logical thing to do
would be, go to Bissonnet, right?
So, I'm trying to figure out this, that,
and get police to move.
That's when I'm like,
I'm gonna go there myself.
January 3rd of 2020,
was the first time I actually went to Bissonnet Street.
What is a middle-age soccer mom
who clearly looks like a mom,
you know, doing on Bissonnet with a big, red jeep?
You got people watching you.
I go down there with a bullet-proof vest.
I was even paying homeless people out there to be my lookout.
[Charles] That's mama bear.
We'd go out there and she'd make me drive over and over again
around and around and around the streets, the strip
to try to find her.
And, she wasn't there.
You see half naked girls, you see cops not doing anything,
and you see a long line of cars
just waiting to have one of these girls get into their car.
[Robyn] I was showing the convenience stores, "Hey, have you seen her?
Can I put her picture up?"
Nobody would let me put that-- her picture up at all in that area.
Nobody.
This is organized crime at its finest.
They were all scared.
Like, I would show 'em Kristen's picture,
"Oh, you're in some deep[bleep]."
Like, this is the stuff I got from people in that area.
[Charles] At this point, Kristen has been missing for a year.
The police definitely need to be doing more... anything.
We're literally casing out the place.
You know, we're trying to take it in our own hands
'cause we call law enforcement, the feds, FBI, we call everybody.
Nobody helps us, nobody cares.
Unless it's your own daughter, nobody cares.
[Robyn] It's just the lack of response,
and return phone calls
of our local law enforcement, our officials,
and-and people I need to speak to.
It's-It's appalling.
These people avoid me like I'm a plague.
And the silence is deafening.
And so, that's when I found Betty.
[Betty] My name is Betty Simons, I am a private investigator.
And I became involved in Kristen's case
in early 2021 after Robyn reached out to me.
I've made it my life work to help victims of sex trafficking
because it hits close home to me.
My sister was sex trafficked at 14-years-old,
and eventually, it led to her murder.
I'm able to keep her memory alive
by helping girls who are victims of this horrible crime.
I've actually recovered 46 missing and exploited children.
Somebody has to step up and somebody has to help these children.
Our law enforcement is very understaffed.
There's only seven detectives in HPD for missing people.
You're talking over 8,000 people reported missing a year
and only seven detectives to work it.
When I first learned about Kristen's disappearance,
you know, my first initial gut reaction is, "What have the police done?"
"Who's the detective in charge, what is going on?
Do we have any leads,
or is there any which way we're kinda going on this case?
What the cops saying? What is law enforcement saying?"
I personally had talked to somebody in HPD that I trust
and I have a good relationship with, and when I asked him,
"What's going on with the Kristen Galvan case?"
His response was, "Who?"
[Robyn] And I began to give Betty everything I had.
And she began to really help me
put some pieces together finally,
that law enforcement should have been doing.
And, I made, uh, "Justice for Kristen", it's a Facebook group.
[Betty] So, once I got Kristen's case,
I'm hitting social media,
I'm looking through online ads,
I am following these known traffickers
and their girls,
and trying to see if I can just get a glimpse of Kristen.
There are hundreds of escort websites
and so, what we've learned is how to kinda limit those down.
It's estimated around 300,000 ads are placed every single day.
So, no one could go through all of those.
But, there are softwares like Traffic Jam
that are able to use AI to scan all of these ads and all over the internet
to figure out not these ads' being placed
but whose face is in them.
Through technology like this, we have a better chance
of getting through more of them,
and hopefully identifying more young women and young men
who may be, um, being advertised and sold.
[Betty] In February of 2021,
I actually sat down and had a meeting
with a trusted source I had in Houston Police Department.
And so, I gave him Kristen's picture.
And he said, you know, "Let me help."
And just two days later,
they had a hit on Traffic Jam
which they believed could have been Kristen.
[Robyn] I know every freckle on my daughter's body.
I know every birth mark.
And I look at the face that the,
the Houston DA sent me,
and, I mean, my heart dropped.
They also sent me a-- another photo of her hands.
And, so the hands looked like hers.
I was like, "That's Kristen.
That's Kristen.
Where is she? We gotta go get her."
[Robyn] So that was taken in Atlanta, Georgia,
and Kristen was being sold for $10,000 per night.
And so at that point,
that's when Kristen's case became a FBI case.
'Cause now he have evidence
that she has crossed state lines.
But I'm still gonna go there myself. [laughs]
And so on February 8th of 2021,
I flew to Atlanta.
And you know, each huge city has a Bissonnet.
And Atlanta's very dangerous.
And I'm thinking, "We're gonna find her in Atlanta, this is it."
[Betty] And when we got the hit for Traffic Jam,
we saw that two other young girls
were in the ads with Kristen.
As Robyn's in Georgia,
I'm back home in Houston
really trying to locate the other two girls
and figure out who they really were, their names,
and doing a research on that backend.
[Robyn] So I'm in Atlanta,
we're passing out flyers,
I'm talking to everybody.
And they claimed they just didn't have any idea who that was.
And they're pretty much pleading the fifth on it.
[Betty] I was able to talk to both girls in the ads with Kristen
via FaceTime.
And I showed them Kristen's picture,
and they said, "Yeah, she looks a lot like her.
But that's not her."
And so they showed me the other girl's social media,
and the resemblance was so similar.
But it wasn't Kristen.
[Robyn] I talked to Betty,
and I come back to Houston in tears.
Getting on that plane, going from Georgia to Houston,
I was just completely heartbroken.
[Betty] Even though you have these softwares that are extremely accurate,
and very beneficial,
they're not a 100%.
And so if somebody has a similar facial feature or hair,
it may pick up as being, um, that individual or that victim
and it-- and it's unfortunately just not.
Right now, we're actually headed to
what we call the Bissonnet Track
or "the Blade" as they call it.
Usually out here, you'll see on average
25 to 35, uh, trafficking victims
that typically work this Blade in this particular track.
They're living out of hotels
and so they're able to move around
at the drop of a dime.
So we'll see the same girls for you know,
a couple of months,
and then next thing you know, they'll move over into Vegas.
And then they'll go, you know, into Florida.
Um, and so they kind of make their way around the US.
They are travelling a lot.
And then, you know,
we won't see 'em for several months.
And then they'll come back around
and we'll see 'em back in Houston.
And so we have to keep looking for Kristen.
[Robyn] On April 24th of 2021,
I receive a tip on Facebook
from a Latasha Robinson here in Houston,
saying that Kristen is locked up in a house here in Houston.
So Latasha was trafficked and she escaped.
And this woman literally tells me things about my daughter
nobody else knew.
She knew Kristen sang.
[crying] And that she had the most amazing voice.
[sniffles]
[Betty] Yeah, she gave us addresses,
and very detailed information.
And so as the information's coming in,
this seemed extremely credible.
Latasha Robinson said that
there was four girls locked in this house
here in Houston.
They were all pregnant.
Kristen is pregnant.
Latasha Robinson said that
if the girls tried to run
they would kill their families.
She gave me the location of this house.
I looked up the house,
and it had burglar bars on the inside and outside,
just like she described.
[Betty] And so we decided to actually go
and watch this address
that we felt Kristen was being trafficked out of.
At that point, we set up surveillance,
we were in approximately 12 hours worth of surveillance
on the residence.
During our surveillance,
we didn't see any kind of activity
that would indicate that a trafficking ring was going on there.
There was no out-of-the-ordinary vehicles
coming or going.
There was just nothing really out of the ordinary.
And so as we continued that investigation,
we eventually learned that
a small family was residing in the home.
And so, there was no trafficking going on.
So at that point, my suspicions start rising.
I really wanna look into this Latasha and who she is
and where her claims are coming from.
And so I-- I began to investigate her personally.
I quickly found out that
Latasha unfortunately did have an addiction problem,
that the person she was claiming was Kristen
and hers trafficker,
is actually an ex-husband of hers.
[Robyn] Who's gonna make up,
"Hey, your baby's over here locked up at a house."
There's, there's gotta be something mentally wrong if you do that.
[Betty] In my experience as a private investigator,
I think Latasha's motive
could've been anywhere from a revenge,
and unfortunately, using an innocent family like Robyn
to get her revenge on an ex-boyfriend.
I don't feel like she was in it for any kind of a-- a money
or a financial gain.
But I do believe it was just a ploy.
[Kaitlin] The FBI has issued warnings about the level of scams
that families of missing persons get subjected to.
It's unfortunately far too common.
[Charles] It makes you feel relief at first.
Like, thank God
she wasn't chained in this basement.
Thank God this stuff wasn't real.
You know, it really does, it gives you relief,
that-- that there's still hope,
that she's still out there and that she's okay.
[Betty] It's devastating and you know, a mother...
is desperate to find her child.
And so she's gonna hold on to any lead that comes in.
But on an investigative standpoint,
we have no choice but to drop that and move on.
I think...
being a-- a private investigator,
that's the hardest part of the job.
Is having to see that devastation in a--
in a family's face,
and watch them break down time and time again,
tip after tip.
Kristen's case is literally the most challenging case
I've ever worked.
[Robyn] So June 1st,
I get a Facebook Messenger message
from Kristen,
saying, "Mom, it's me.
I need you to go get my baby.
They made me dump him in a porta potty.
He's a Hispanic baby.
Mom, please go get your grandbaby."
[Kaitlin] Maybe Latasha was telling the truth
about Kristen's pregnancy after all.
Because it's totally reasonable
that someone who's been sex-trafficked
might be forced to get rid of the baby.
Even if the baby had been born healthy and full-term.
And then I immediately did a simple Google search.
And this news article had come up
that there was a newborn found in a porta potty in Houston.
It was a complete nightmare.
I was a mess.
[narrator] Kristen Galvan was last seen January 2nd, 2020.
[narrator reading]
[Robyn] When I saw that dead baby found
in a porta potty in Houston,
it was crazy.
And here I am again,
uh, calling FBI.
Because feds don't mess with that kind of stuff.
[reporter] Breaking news out of Northeast Harris County,
that's where deputies say they found the body
of a deceased newborn inside a porta potty.
[Robyn] So FBI steps in,
and they're come do a DNA swab.
So this is my first time doing DNA
on what could possibly be Kristen's baby,
my grandchild.
And just that panic,
and being there knowing there's a dead baby
sitting in the medical examiner's office
that could possibly be Kristen's.[crying]
[Charles] We're literally having to live this nightmare,
and go down there and wait for months.
It takes months to get results for these kind of things.
[Betty] DNA in this case takes so long,
because you are talking about a crime scene.
This is a deceased infant.
And so they have to make sure
that they have followed every policy and protocol
to make sure if anything is found,
that it is admissible in court.
[Robyn] August of 2021,
FBI sent me a message and said that
Latasha is the one
who had sent those messages to me.
I reached back out to Latasha.
No response.
And something in my gut said, go to her profile.
So I did.
And Latasha had died.
I'm not a 100% sure if she overdosed.
Somebody said a brain aneu--
There's been multiple stories. Eventually I mean, she died.
I do not believe it had anything to do with Kristen's case.
I've been lied to a lot.
It's so [bleep] up, really.
And my baby's still missing!
I received a message five months later
from FBI saying that it was not Kristen's baby.
[Betty] So at this point,
we're at the two-year mark now,
and I'm still checking ads.
It has become a nightly routine
for the last two years. [chuckles softly]
And that's to check ads every night,
multiple different cities,
you know, our bigger trafficking hotspots,
nothing is-- is hitting with Kristen.
Could she still be trafficked?
Well, no, because she's not being sold.
So there's no advertisement going on.
Kristen, at the end of the day to these traffickers,
were a product.
She was a product to be sold.
And if that product is not being advertised,
then the likelihood of it being sold is...
pretty small.
So at-- at this point,
I did not believe Kristen was being trafficked any-- anymore.
[Kaitlin] The fact that Kristen's been missing this long,
you can't rule out foul play at this point.
[Betty] So with Kristen not being advertised,
it begins to make me wonder, is there another avenue?
Is it possible that Kristen is no longer with us?
And, you know, could she have been killed?
This is a very dangerous industry.
And so that-- you know, we start to theorize like,
maybe the reason we're not seeing Kristen
is because Kristen's no longer with us.
I chose not to share my thoughts with the family,
because I didn't know it to be a fact.
Now Robyn's not willing to give up.
And so you gotta start asking her questions.
What did I miss?
Is there something I'm overlooking?
You know, you're talking two years and nothing.
So...
I really kind of start to theorize.
Uh, what could've happened?
Maybe we were looking at Kristen's case all wrong
the whole time.
I knew we had to go back to square one.
Let's go back from the day she disappeared.
What was the one key factor in Kristen's disappearance?
The phone.
So when I first got involved,
Robyn sent me the cell phone records.
But at that point,
we're thinking Kristen was with a trafficker,
and so she didn't have the phone anymore,
and the phone was irrelevant.
That was the one key factor I overlooked
because I was so focused
on believing Kristen was still being sold.
And so I took the cellphone records.
I started figuring out who Kristen was talking to
after her disappearance.
Where do these numbers belong?
Who are they in relation to Kristen?
And I realized that we had...
a couple of Johns on there.
And Johns are overlooked by law enforcement.
[Kaitlin] John refers to someone who is purchasing sex acts from someone,
when often from those who are too young to consent.
Uh, so this person knows they're breaking the law.
[Betty] We focused so much of our energy and our time on-- on the pimps.
And really what we've seen
is it's the Johns that are more dangerous.
It's the pimps that are manipulating
and abusing these victims.
But the Johns are the ones that are deadly.
Because a pimp isn't gonna kill his money.
Right?
Why would you kill your money?
Even in Kristen's case,
we had focused so hard on the traffickers,
and not once did we ever turn and focus on these Johns.
So we began to separate the cell phone records
and I backtracked the phone numbers.
One in particular caught our attention.
It was the very last person
that Kristen ever talked to on that cell phone.
And I think that's when it hit me that
the answer may have been in front of us the whole time.
[Betty] There were several messages with a John
back and forth over a couple of day period
that Kristen had been gone.
And so we knew we at least had a timeline
of who was the last person to have spoken to Kristen.
And I was able to track down the John.
He was not very forthcoming with information,
he seemed to have a lot to hide.
And every time I would talk to him,
his story would change again.
And so that was very suspicious,
and why would your story change?
You know, it's not hard to remember the truth.
[Robyn crying] And so help me God,
if this man did hurt my daughter,
oh, man.
Houston will have hell to pay.
[Betty] I recently handed all this information
over to the FBI,
because Kristen's disappearance is an open investigation.
But what I do know is
what ever happened to Kristen, she does deserve justice.
[Kaitlin] So the case is still open,
but it's been three years
and not much has changed in terms of what we know
about Kristen's disappearance.
However, we know that before Kristen went missing,
Kristen was working with police
and wanted to help end what was happening.
[Robyn] Kristen is 19 years old now.
Uh, her birthday just passed.
Uh, we went to the beach.
Kristen loves the beach.
She would always say,
"My favorite place is where the ocean meets the sky."
And I'm like, "Yes, me too, baby, me too."
[crying] So I went to the ocean,
and I released some balloons.
We had supper there and just you know, a good family day.
But the just not knowing...
I think it's been long enough.
I need some answers and I think...[sniffles]
...you know, I deserve some answers.
You know, at this point,
you know, I'm gonna continue to go out there,
and help families,
and help them find their children
and, um, continue fighting
to expose what's going on here in Houston.
It's not just my baby being sold.
My sister was actually trafficked out on Bissonnet.
So she was 14 years old
when she first met her trafficker.
And she was recruited out of
what we call Chimney Rock,
which is a CPS facility, uh, right up the road.
And we know that the last sighting of Kristen
was actually right here too.
And this,
this street, this Blade, this track right here,
it's very significant to Kristen's story.
This is where her traffickers trafficked her.
This is where they sold her.
This is where, you know, Kristen fell into this--
this dark world of child exploitation and child sex slavery.
Literally, right here.
We don't know what happened to her,
but we know it started here.
We don't know why
Kristen decided to leave her house the second time.
Is Kristen alive?
Kids don't just fall off the face of the planet.
As long as there's some sliver of hope,
I'm not willing to give up.
[Charles] It's been three and a half years,
and we just, we pray for her safe return.
I believe Kiki is out there,
and that we will be reunited with her soon.
[Betty] She's there, she's out there somewhere.
Somebody knows something.
Somebody has to speak.
It just takes one person.
One person that knows the truth.
And we know you're out there.
[Robyn crying] It's every parent's worst nightmare.
I'm living it.
[sighs] I've gotta find my baby.
You know, I promised her
that I wouldn't let anything happen to her.
I promised her this
after she started to come forward.
I said, "Baby, these men aren't gonna hurt you, I promise you."
I would just hug her.
I-- I wouldn't let go.
I don't think I'd let go.
There's no way I'd let go.
That's all I want.
Just for my baby to be home.
♪♪
In 2021, 3,000 black and brown women
went missing in Chicago.
I think that if she was in a toxic relationship
that needs to be looked at.
She's in trouble somewhere.
I have no reason to think she's dead
cause we don't got her - just find her.