Amy Christian
Appearances
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
He was real protective and wanted to make sure he listened to my mom and dad. Now, he didn't want to get in any trouble. He was a good guy. I know my dad talked about how he wanted him to play football. And my brother was a stout, big kid. You know, he was a little overweight and he was kind of a big kid. And my brother only played for a couple of years.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
And my dad said he just didn't have the tenacity. He didn't want to hurt anybody. So he was that kind of a gentle soul. He really was. I mean, he was that good of a guy. And I always remembered him being really smart. He was really smart. I thought, I mean, he had calculus and all this trigonometry and all this stuff. And I'm like, wow, what is this?
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
I was, you know, like I said, 10, 11 years old when I was looking at his math books. And I was just like, I thought it was amazing. And he was one of my first heroes growing up. I mean, he was a smart kid and had a lot of future ahead of him, you know, and it's just sad. Anybody that knew him said he was a great guy.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
I remember the feeling was that I think they really were trying to find some reason that he left, you know, that it was on his fruition. And, you know, we all had maintained he had no reason to leave. He was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. His tuition was getting paid. We didn't have abusive family. We didn't believe Bob took off.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
We didn't believe he joined some group and took off with my mom's wheels or anything. I don't think my parents ever felt that was true. Just something bad happened.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
Right away, my mom started calling places to find out, was there any accidents reported, any of the hospitals? They checked with, you know, the different areas and nobody, there was no reports of an accident or anybody going into the hospital. I know that kind of went on the next day.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
I can remember, you know, because he was 18, they had to wait 24 hours or something before they could even consider him missing. And that's why my Uncle Glenn came from Milwaukee the next day and we started looking because we're like, we know there's something wrong. This is not Bob. Bob is not somebody who is going to just take off without letting somebody know what's going on.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
You know, it does give me hope. But then part of me, I said to Detective Point, and sometimes maybe God doesn't answer our prayers for a reason, you know. And maybe this is why if this John Wayne Gacy, you know, maybe we weren't supposed to know. Maybe my parents weren't supposed to know. I hope for answers, but then sometimes you have to be careful what you're hoping for, too.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
I know for a long time I felt like, golly, did our family deserve this? What happened? This is just wrong, you know? And I don't know if you're aware, but then six years later, my sister was killed.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
When my sister died, and this is an awful memory, but I remember my mom and I were driven to tell my dad about my sister. And I can remember him coming down and he was so happy. He looked happy because he thought they were going to say something about Bob. And I just, I remember that and I was like, oh man. It just so sucked. You know, it was like, oh, you know, and I remember that more.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
I was 17 when my sister was killed. At that time, we thought she had just died in a fire. We didn't know that it was arson. We didn't know it was, I mean, we knew she hung around some rough people at times, and she always was kind of a little partier in the family, and She was a little wilder, a little bit more, she liked having fun. But I mean, she was a good person.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
She was a good person, but she just, some of the friends she hung out in high school probably weren't the best people.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
When I think about my brother and sister at their ages when they were so young, and then to try to think about them as adults in, you know, they never had that chance. I lost my first hero and then my second. It was pretty crazy.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
That night, he had an excuse to get out. My mom was doing Weight Watchers, and she made a Weight Watchers soup. And we all kind of laughed because Bob was like, ah, we'll see you guys later. And I remember him leaving because he was like, I'm out of here.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
That's probably the last time I remember him saying goodbye to us all, that he was heading out and was going to be, you know, heading to Baraboo.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
He said, dad, there's mom's car. So my dad started to walk up to the car and he saw the wheels were off and he just said, hey, stop, you guys, stop. We need to go back to the van. I'm going to go down to the farmhouse that was whatever farmhouse was closest. And my dad used that phone to call the police. Well, in the meantime, my uncle Glenn and my cousins and I came upon them.
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
And then we realized, oh, man, As a kid, I was like, what the heck is going on, you know?
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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)
When he said, I'm lost, I'm looking for a friend, we're all kind of like, huh, he knew that area. We all kind of been up in that area. Our family had connection to that. My brothers went hunting with my dad for years up there.