[Lauren speaking]
[Dustin] We loved Halloween every yea
That was probably, as a family, one of our favorite holidays.
[Joe speaking]
[Christa] Dustin's the Tigge and Lauren is Snow White.
[Lauren speaking]
[Joe speaking]
She loved to dress up.
But like all fairy tales, sometimes there's a ending
that's not all that good.
[siren blaring]
[detective speaking]
At that moment, time stopped.
[Joe] I'll never forget how my heart felt.
That's something we don't ever prepare for.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] It's Christmas Day, 1997 in Antlers, Oklahoma.
[woman] Hey, Chris.
Hey.
[narrator] 28-year-old Chris Kidd and 27-year-old Joe Kidd...
[woman speaking]
[narrator] ...are celebrating the holidays with relatives
and their one-year-old daughter Lauren.
[baby cooing]
[Christa] We were at my grandparents' house.
We'd come to visit my grandparents, my mother, and my sister.
Lauren had just turned one on the fifth before.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] The Kidds live 150 miles away in Broken Arrow
And this is the first time that baby Lauren meets some of her extended family
[Christa] Everyone is so excited to meet Lauren.
And Lauren was always happy and smiley and had a porcelain
doll kind of look, that pretty painted on auburn hair.
Lauren definitely was the center of attention.
It was the first time that she could open presents, you know.
It was, of course, all about
the wrapping paper and the boxes.
It was just a lot of fun.
[woman 1 speaking]
[woman 2] Okay, yes.
[Christa] She loved being with her daddy.
And really, he loved having her.
Yes.
There was a time she was a daddy's girl,
and she'd tell you that too.
[Christa] He would always te her she was not going to grow up.
She was gonna be his baby girl forever.
Four years earlier, Joe and I had met when I had moved to Tulsa.
I was a single mother
of a three-year-old son named Joshua.
I was working at an apartment complex as a leasing agent,
and Joe was working in the fitness facility.
It was about three years after I met Joe that I was pregnant
with Lauren.
And so exciting.
I was head over heels, you know?
I mean, I was nervous.
I was happy. I was scared.
I was... "Wow. Am I ready?"
[Christa] Lauren was born December 5th, 1996.
Best birthday present I could have got.
My birthday was on the 11th right after.
She was a birthday present and a Christmas present, all in... combined.
[Dusty] Lauren walked over, straddled Joshua's head.
[narrator] The Kidds visit Joe's family in Munford, Tennessee, in April 1998.
That was an exciting time to go.
It's the first granddaughter on that side of the family.
That's Dusty, Joe's dad.
We call him Pa Pa.
Pa Pa was the bean bag of children.
[man] Joshua's wrestling.
Everybody wanted to hang off of him and bounce off of him.
And, you know, he was so much fun with the kids.
[Dusty groaning] Ow, he got me.
[Christa] She's gonna crawl on top of Pa Pa.
Oh, my goodness.
Now Pa Pa is in for it.
Lauren's gonna spank him.
He's in trouble.
Oh, goodness.
You know?
[Lauren speaking]
[Christa] 1999, the company that Joe and I were working
for filed bankruptcy, and we had selected to go
to a company in Phoenix, Arizona.
We decided to call it our working vacation.
It was living a glamorous life.
We really wanted to just take in all of the things
as if we were tourists.
[Joe speaking]
-Yeah, it's chilly. -[Joe speaking]
[Lauren speaking]
Lauren was so little. I think she just enjoyed everything.
Something new.
She's like, "Wow, look how pretty this is."
There were mountains everywhere.
We had no mountains in Oklahoma.
We had mountains all of a sudden.
I don't like the sun to shine.
[narrator] Fast forward to 2001, Lauren is developing a love for sports.
[Joe] Stop it, goalie!
[Christa] Lauren played soccer
for the first time when she was four.
She liked to play goalie.
Strange because the ball comes at you.
You have to stop the ball.
She didn't care.
She had good, strong legs, and she wasn't afraid.
Lauren, what's your plan for the day of the game?
What are you gonna do to get ready for this game today?
What's going on?
[Christa] Talk to us, Lauren.
-Tell the whole world. -Come on.
Talk to the mic, Lauren. What's going on today?
I'm thrilled to see my daughter be excited about playing
and her having fun.
[woman] Josie, get it!
Josie, run!
[Christa] It was just very natural for her.
She got out there on that field
and controlled the spotlight
She was very good at it. It was exciting.
We left Phoenix
in 2002 and moved to Tennessee.
We spent time there to be closer to Joe's father.
[Christa speaking]
Lauren started school in August.
She was so excited about starting school, having all of her
school supplies in her Barbie backpack.
[Christa speaking]
[Lauren speaking]
[Christa speaking]
[Lauren speaking]
[Christa speaking]
[Joe speaking]
[Lauren speaking]
[Christa speaking]
[Christa] So we were excited to
pick Lauren up from school that day to see how our day was
and she just sees us and runs out and beaming
and just on and on and on about everything that happened that day.
[Joe speaking]
[Christa speaking]
[Joe] Hold on. Wait right there.
[narrator] Christa's pregnan with her and Joe's second child.
We decided with the family expanding, we needed to
move back closer to my family.
And so we pack everything up and move back to Oklahoma.
Lauren wasn't good with change.
She didn't like change.
But we had to move forward.
[Joe] We made a decision to move there and hoped
things will be better.
We can plan things and set goals and start bettering
ourselves for the next chapter in life at that time.
Aw.
[Christa] I went into labor October 25th.
Dustin was born the next day about 2:00 p.m.
[Joe] Lauren was thrilled when she found out it was a little boy.
I've got pictures of them together and she loved her brothers.
She was protective as she got older, but she loved her brothers.
[Lauren speaking]
[Joe speaking]
[Lauren speaking]
[Joe speaking]
[narrator] Fast forward to October 2003,
the Kidd family prepares for two celebrations.
[Dustin] I would have just turned one.
[Joe speaking]
Halloween being after my birthday,
we usually tried to do a Halloween celebration for that anyways.
Lauren probably had the ide of wanting to be Snow White
'cause that's just how she was.
She always wanted to be princess and dressing up,
stuff like that.
[Lauren speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Joe speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Dustin] We loved Halloween every yea
That was probably as a famil one of our favorite holidays
[Lauren speaking]
[Dustin] As a big sister, she was great.
She actually let me go hang out with her.
It's like, your own brother, a lot of people don't do that.
So that was always fun.
It was really good times for all of us.
Just the fact that we were all there together.
At that time of our life, we just thought that everything
was gonna be great.
[Dusty speaking]
[narrator] The Kidd family celebrates
Thanksgiving 2004 with Joe's parents in Tennessee.
[Christa] Lauren loved spending time with her Pa Pa.
He was fun, and he would do just about anything.
And she always wanted to hunt with Pa Pa.
[Dusty speaking]
[Dustin] Lauren was always very open to doing things.
She was, "Hey, let's go randomly go shoot at a tree for no reason."
So my Pa Pa, trying to, like, show Lauren to keep
it up on your shoulder so it doesn't, like, hit you in the face.
[Dusty] All right. Lauren.
And then she almost hits herself in the face again.
[Lauren speaking]
[Dusty speaking]
[Dustin] That was cute. Ah.
[narrator] In early 2005, Christa and Joe celebrate the arrival
of their third child togethe
[Dustin] Tyler was born in February of 2005.
He may have been our last, but he definitely wasn't our least.
[Christa] Tyler was the new play toy, obviously.
Lauren's friends, they reall liked to dress Tyler up.
Tyler had fantastic yellow curls.
[Tyler] I saw one of her old friends one time
and she was like, "Yo, I used to dress you up in a dress,
put makeup on you."
And I was like, "Oh, my God."
It was a challenge sometimes
But Lauren and him got along great
because she was proud of her brother.
[narrator] It's now 2009, and 12-year-old Lauren
is struggling with her mental health.
[Christa] Her doctor diagnosed her with ADHD,
and the medicines affected her.
It kind of took the essence of Lauren away.
[Dustin] She just started being more shy and more bashful,
not as outgoing and open on her own, if that makes sense.
It was like her demeanor changed.
So her group of friends shifted.
It was a difficult year for Lauren.
[narrator] Lauren's mental health takes another blow
when the swine flu pandemic strikes the Kidd family.
Her and her brother Dustin became sick with the H1N1
at the same time with Pa Pa.
Pa Pa didn't make it.
[Dustin] I remember sitting in our driveway one day
while my dad was on his way home.
I remember him just like sitting down and telling us the news,
and I was, like, devastated.
I know she was, too.
He was a big part of our lif at that time,
especially the kids, because they were...
that's Pa Pa.
So he loved his kids, his grandkids, all of them.
So it hit us hard.
[narrator] October 2010, the Kidd family celebrates
Dustin's eighth birthday with a Halloween themed part
[Christa speaking]
[narrator] But behind the laughter, Lauren continues to struggle
[Christa] She was doing self-harm.
She would cover it up.
[narrator] Christa begs Lauren to stop
She records Lauren's arms every few days to check for new cuts.
[Christa] We struggled with not knowing why would you
cut yourself when you're so beautiful
and what can we do to help fix it.
Lauren learned to say, "I can handle this.
It's not an issue.
I've got this.
Don't worry about me."
And she would be very upset
You know, you didn't want to make it worse.
You start thinking as a father, "What is it that you missed?
What did you do?
Why is she doing this? What caused this?"
[Christa] I didn't know until later about a time
that Lauren and some friend were hanging out,
one of the boys had stayed back with Lauren, I think he had
pinned her against the wall and had forced himself on he
And she didn't want anyone to know.
We found a counselor that Lauren agreed to see.
Lauren's next couple of year were pretty smooth.
Lauren had a friend Dylan.
Dylan introduced Lauren to his skater buddy Zach.
That was it. That was it for her.
There wasn't anybody else that she would even have
considered once she met Zach.
[Dustin] I believe they started dating in high schoo
I loved Zach always just because he was pretty close to
an older brother figure in that way.
He loved to hang out with us.
I was at work and her dad came home for lunch to find Lauren
and her friends carrying box from her room to their cars
She said, "I'm moving out and there's nothing you can do about it."
[Joe] I said, "I understand you want to move. I figured you would."
It's just high school was over 'cause
we're in the middle of the year
and she's in the middle of her senior year.
[Christa] She moved into an apartment with Zach,
and they were gonna get married one day.
And she would finish high school and get a job,
and everything was gonna be great.
I had already thought that she might have been pregnant
February, I was able to get her to agree to a doctor's appointment
when she discovered that tru she was pregnant.
March 22, 2015, she gave bir
to the absolutely fantastic Addison Nicole Maine.
[Joe] To watch your little girl bring another little girl
into the world, it was...
I'd say, it's just amazing.
Wow. There's...
I can't describe the feeling 'cause it's just...
we just don't get those feelings, you know?
[Christa] A few months later she graduates from high school.
She did it all.
She took care, and she was a mom and all this stuff.
In July of 2016,
Lauren and Zach got married
It was a very beautiful bed-and-breakfast
wedding chapel.
[Tyler] I remember seeing he in that dress
with the red hair and everything, like, "That's my sister."
And looked at her like, "She's gorgeous.
This day is gonna be amazing."
[Joe] She was so beautiful.
Zach had this grin on him.
All day long, it was just, "I'm gonna get married."
So it was wonderful to watch those two kids go through that.
I thought they would be together forever.
But like all fairytales, sometimes there's an ending that's not all that good, so.
[Lauren singing]
[narrator] March 2017, The Kidd family
celebrates Addison's second birthday.
[Christa] We were so excited to see Addison
and how much she had grown.
Uh-oh.
Watching the kids have thei first time really together,
it was... it was a good time.
That was a good party. I enjoyed that party.
[narrator] Lauren and Zach decide they need more space
raise their daughter.
[Christa] What was it, around 2017?
Zach and Lauren moved in with their friends at that time,
Konner and his girlfriend Alex.
I don't know how close Lauren and Konner were in high school.
I knew they knew each other.
But they would end up decidi to share a larger apartment
with Konner and Alex.
[Dustin] I knew Konner and Alex at the time.
So I was like, "Okay, this is cool.
Like, I like them." They were pretty cool.
[Christa] Lauren started working at Evolution.
They would sell electronic cigarettes
and different things like that.
She really enjoyed it a lot She met a lot of people ther
That's where she met Blake, was at Evolution.
They became very close friends.
We first met whenever I was trying to get a birthday present
for one of my friends.
Lauren was someone that you could always talk to.
You were ever having trouble with anything, then she'd be happy to help.
If there was anything that you ever wanted to do,
then she was always down to do it.
[narrator] Lauren is happy at work, but there are tensions at home.
[Christa] Things started changing in the household
dynamics, I'll say.
Things started to get bumpy with the relationship between
Lauren and Zach.
And I think that once that things got shaky,
it was hard to really get it back.
[Dustin] They still loved each other
It was just in that moment it wasn't good for them both to be together.
[Christa] Alex had broken u with Konner by that time,
and so she had moved out.
[Dustin] Lauren needed someone else to be able to talk to,
and Konner was kind of already there.
And so they just kind of got closer and closer.
So that's just kind of how that kind of came out.
I know that they were extremely happy,
and he made her extremely happy.
He took care of Addison very well,
whenever they were around each other.
He helped out very well.
[narrator] Lauren tells Zac that she is in love with Konner.
[Christa] Zach took Addison to his mom's.
He filed for a divorce,
and Lauren felt a obligation to stay
in the apartment with Konner to help him pay the bills.
[narrator] Lauren and Zach divorce in September 2017.
They share the responsibilit for raising two-year-old
Addison after the split.
[Dustin] One would have one week, one would have the oth
'cause they always wanted t make sure Addison was happy
That was always that main priority.
[narrator] Lauren and Konner grow closer.
And Lauren abuses drugs as the relationship develops
I met Lauren early 2018 through somebody I was living with
that introduced me to both of them at the same time.
We would, I say, party, but it was more of a mess.
We usually we're just kind of, like, getting by, hanging out
with a lot of sketchy peopl but just kind of on the edge
And I think that was what our thing was at the time.
She did smoke weed.
We both did.
Us doing the drugs we did was part of the reason why we ended up meeting.
I don't think we used drugs to let go as much as we did
to hold on to that feeling.
It was really negative.
[narrator] Lauren and Konner drug abuse escalates
and their relationship spirals when they start to abuse harder drugs
[Tyler] She'd get in arguments with him
and then be mad at him.
And then he would make it where she's the bad guy.
[Christa] The fights that they would have
and the things that he would say to her, he was absolutely horrible for her.
They had fought and refought, broke up, got back together,
fought, broke up so many times that we reall
thought that this was gonna be the case that would be the final breakup.
On October 26, 2018,
I was expecting Lauren to call me
to come to pick her up from work.
That's usually what happened and instead
Konner drops her off.
We didn't understand how that happened,
how could that possibly be.
It was horrifying to see him back
at our house after everything that had happened.
I wanted to talk to her about it.
Lauren was very defensive.
And so at a point, she just left, and I never saw her again.
[Blake] Lauren was supposed to actually stay at my house that night.
And I had dropped her off a the Shell station by my house.
And she got picked up by this guy named Mike West.
And she had gone to his house, and she was gonna get a tattoo over there.
I was supposed to pick her up at around 6:00 p.m.-ish.
I was texting her, trying to get updates.
But after a little while, she just stopped texting back.
Blake contacted me and he asked me where she was
because he couldn't get ahold of her.
She wasn't messaging me.
She was pretty consistent with replying.
So her not replying back, it definitely came off as, like, alarming.
Once it got to about midnight of that night,
that's whenever me and Shayna were both freaking out.
So the only person I could think of left to call would be
Christa to be able to try to figure out where she was.
[Christa] Immediately, I sen a message to Konner
asking if he had heard from her.
I sent a message to Zachary.
Zach messaged back that they were supposed to meet up
in Maine for a trick or trea event
with Addison, and Lauren didn't show up.
When Zach told us that, it was a horrible gut feeling.
We called Broken Arrow Police Department to file a missing persons.
[Kenneth] 12:09 in the morning,
the Broken Arrow Police Department received a call.
Blake Beaman informed the Broken Arrow Police Department
that Lauren was dropped off October 27th at a gas statio
where she was supposed to get a ride to a person's house by
the name of Mike West, who was supposed to help her get a tattoo.
Mike West told police that that day when Lauren came over to the house,
they had a discussion about what kind of tattoo to get.
And he said that Konner Brunner showed up to the house
kind of unannounced.
Konner and Lauren leave.
And she tells Mike West, "I'll be right back.
I shouldn't be gone too long
Detective Mark Williamson reaches out to Konner throug a phone call to try to see
if he can figure out where Lauren may have gone.
Konner Brunner tells Detective Williamson that
he picked Lauren up somewher between 1:00 and 3:00
and took her to a nearby Walmart,
where she got out and was supposed to have walked to a friend's house.
Now that Konner Brunner has given a specific time, date, and location,
they now have the ability to see if they can gather additional evidence.
Anything that can give them a lead on what direction Lauren may have traveled.
[narrator] Investigators obtained surveillance footag
of the Walmart parking lot.
[Kenneth] The Broken Arrow police officers are combing through this footage
But there's absolutely no evidence, no video, nothing
that shows Lauren.
So this becomes kind of a first indication
that something's not right here.
[narrator] A few days pass before Christa receives a tip.
One evening, we received an anonymous message.
[Joe] And it says, "I was with Konner last night.
There's blood in his car.
He's got new seats.
Something's not right."
This anonymous caller who gives them a pretty significant
piece of information that inside of Konner's car,
he saw a significant amount of blood.
This is blood that was on the car seats, on the car seat cover,
all over the floorboards.
The Broken Arrow Police Department got a search warrant
not only for Konner Brunner's cell phone, for his DNA, but also for his car.
Detectives made contact wit Konner Brunner
and asked him whether or no
he will come down to the police station and talk with them.
He does ultimately agree to go down
and provide a statement to police.
[Konner speaking]
[Ashley] He says he dropped her off at Walmart,
which we know to be untrue.
The story evolved into he took her somewhere to get drugs
or that he kicked her out of the car because she wanted drugs.
[narrator] Investigators pull the geolocation data
for October 27th from Konner's phone.
[Dustin] Konner's statement to police initially was that
after he dropped Lauren off, that he drove around for a bit
and then he went to work at the Family Video from 4:00 pm to 9:00 p.m.
But his geo data tells an entirely different story.
His geolocation shows a ten-minute point in time around 6:00 pm
where he's at the 51st and Aspen area
that has been completely removed from his version of events
for what he did that day.
[narrator] Konner's telephon data also reveals that
he visited Walmart at around 10:30 p.m.
on the night Lauren disappeared.
This is several hours after the time he told investigato
that he went to the store.
[Kenneth] The security footage shows Konner Brunner walking
in with a white female shopping and buying various items to
include some clothing but also various cleaning supplies.
Detectives are later able t determine that the woman
who was with Konner was his ex-girlfriend Alex.
Alex tells police that when Konner came to her the evening of October 27th
that the story he gave her
was that a friend of his had been shot and he dropped him off
and didn't know his condition, that he was upset.
Alex, not knowing that Laure was missing, believed Konner's story,
and she threw away his clothes,
and she saw him start to clean the car out.
We have no indication Alex had any idea of what Konner had
actually done at that point.
[narrator] Investigators received the forensic repor on Konner's car.
[Ashley] When they first go into Konner's car and looked
it was evident that there ha been a large volume of bloo
that someone or something had lost.
DNA was taken from both her father and her mother.
And we were able to confirm that it was Lauren's blood in the vehicle.
Then he changes the story a bit.
He dropped her off to get drugs and she wants to be dropped off
at a secondary location to get help.
And that story was where it really kind of went off the rails a bit.
[narrator] Konner claims tha a pair of local drug dealer
were also inside the car.
[Ashley] Lauren was yelling at people that were in Konner's car.
She was buying drugs from them.
And there was some dispute and that they hurt Lauren.
[Konner speaking]
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[narrator] Konner claims tha the dealers then told him t
drive to the junction of 51st Street and Aspen
to dispose of Lauren's body
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
-[detective speaking] -[Konner speaking]
Konner tells detectives that Lauren's body was placed
in a recycling bin behind a gas station.
As they get closer to that recycling bin, exactly wher
Konner described it, they find evidence of blood
They also found a bracelet that we were later able to link up
as belonging to Lauren.
The blood that was found at the dumpster on both the outside
and inside, the dumpster itself was confirmed to be Lauren's blood
and matched with her DNA.
[Christa] At that moment, you know, our worst fears was confirmed
and that she was never coming back again...
and that all the things that we had talked about,
that she wanted to do would never happen.
[Dustin] I got up from the table.
I hit the fricking wall.
I went fricking stupid.
I fell apart all over again. Ready to fricking kill.
Pretty much everybody just left me alone.
They all did their thing.
Lauren was a wonderful individual, had a full life ahead of her.
She didn't deserve that.
[narrator] Investigators don't believe Konner's clai
that dealers shot Lauren during an argument over drug
They press Konner to come clean about what really happened
in his car on October 27th.
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[detective speaking]
[Kenneth] Konner is still trying to do what he can to
distance himself, and he is still attempting to put blame on others.
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[Ashley] And then when it gets to him needing to explain something,
he becomes quite cagey and dodges the question
or just doesn't answer it at all.
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[detective speaking]
[Konner speaking]
[Ashley] After we have Konner's confession
and detectives respond to the dumpster and find the blood and Lauren's bracelet,
it became evident she was no longer at that location.
So detectives ultimately concluded that she'd been
sent to a recycling facilit that packs recycling.
We were first contacted by the Broken Arrow Police Department
on November the third.
They had explained to me that Lauren had been put into a recycling dumpster.
They contacted us to see if we might be able to dispatch
some cadaver dogs to come out there.
We went with the Broken Arrow Police Department
to the processing facility in Valliant.
Our dogs are trained to alert on the odor of human decomposition.
When they first arrived and started checking the bales,
they weren't finding anythin
And that's when we took the cadaver dogs inside the facility.
It was a full down alert where the dog lays
all the way down and says, "It's here.
I smell my odor right here."
We know that they only give those alerts to the presence of human remains.
Police were able to ultimately recover what they believe
may be portions of bone or from the skin of Lauren.
This was confirmed through DNA testing.
Konner was charged with murder in the first degree,
which under Oklahoma law is the intentional taking of a human life.
[narrator] Investigators piece together the events
that led to Lauren's murder
[Kenneth] As the investigation into Konner continued,
there was additional evidence that came to light.
Konner was dating another woman and still talking to and seeing Lauren.
Investigators were able to find messages days before
Lauren's murder, where his girlfriend was breaking up with him
because of his relationship with Lauren.
[narrator] After the breakup Konner texts another former girlfriend, Alex.
In one message to her, he describes Lauren as a parasite.
[Kenneth] We were able to find messages to where he talked about
how Lauren had ruined his life because she would not go away
as he's trying to be with this new woman.
[Ashley] On October 27th, Lauren had an argument with her mother that day.
She spent some time with Blake.
She spent time at her friend Mike's house, who picked her up
from a gas station after she was done seeing Blake.
[Kenneth] Konner picked Lauren up from Mike West's house
around 4:30 to 5:00 p.m...
[Ashley] At some point, Lauren and Konner were drivi
around, had an argument, and Konner took her life.
He was seeking to remove her from his life in some form or fashion.
Now, ultimately, what happened inside that car,
the only person who truly knows is Konner Brunner.
[Ashley] He discarded her in a dumpster at a Kum & Go gas station,
and then he drove to an apartment complex
and discarded her personal belongings.
[Kenneth] From there, we know he goes to work around 7:30.
He drives around for a bit and then we're able to find that he meets up
with his ex-girlfriend Alex at her place of business
and then goes to Walmart at 10:30 p.m...
[Ashley] And then after that he did what he could to create a narrative
and to get rid of what evidence he could
to cover his tracks.
[Kenneth] Konner pled not guilty.
And after a preliminary hearing and lengthy motion arguments,
our jury trial began in January of 2020.
[Christa] We went to trial and think we believe that
Konner, in his own head, didn't think that he would be
convicted of her murder.
[narrator] The jury finds Konner guilty of first degree murder.
The judge sentences him to life in prison
with the possibility of paro after 38 years.
[Joe] I want my daughter to be happy. That's all.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Like any other dad out there
Konner took that from her.
And he took that from a lot of other people too.
[Christa] I would like Addis to know that her mommy reall
was trying to be the mom that she wanted her to be...
that this bad dude took her away
and that that wasn't her fault
and that her mom is watching over her.
[Joe] When I think about my baby girl, my little Lauren, I call her Lala.
I got so many memories.
That's the only thing that keeps me going, is the memories.
She was an awesome individual.