Colleen Fitzpatrick
Appearances
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
As soon as I hung up the phone with him, I Googled it. I Googled lavender dough, and as soon as it came up, I knew. And I called him back, and I told him, that's Dana. It's Dana.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
Surreal. It felt like somebody just punched me in the stomach. Yeah. I was angry that she was by herself, you know. Her worst fear came true. She was forgotten.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
She was passed around between my dad and his current wife or current girlfriend at the time, and that's how we lost track between her and us for about 10 years.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
Very, very happy. She said she liked the normal life, feeling normal, not having to worry, you know, being loved is what she said.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
She wasn't trash. She wasn't a piece of trash like he took upon himself to discard of. And I want everybody, you know, to know who Dana was and who she was as a person. Even with her difficult life and her upbringing, she still had a good heart.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
It is. Exactly. You never think about it, but it is something. It's important to have that. Because you're never forgotten, you know, that your name is there. It's written in stone.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
Some of the people still go by her gravesite and still put flowers and things like that there. And that's what we wanted, because she's part of Longview.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
We thought, this is the family. This is it. Surreal. It felt like somebody just punched me in the stomach. They know the truth. I want everybody to know who she was as a person. She had a good heart.