Karen Anderson
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42 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I say she's forever 22. That's hard. That's sad to me. Because forever 22 is too young. Mic check, check, check. She was friendly with a huge heart.
May 9th, 1995, Hayley Anderson was born and I did something in the top 10% of the world. I delivered on my due date. So of course, Hayley would come into the world when she was due, because she was always very tenacious. Haley grew up in Salisbury, New York, very tight-knit community, right in the middle of Long Island. And she was very curious and such a rambunctious little child.
And she had a great sense of humor.
I filed for divorce from Haley's dad when Haley was 14 years old. And that was hard. This was a very difficult time for Haley, but we were always very close. So we persevered.
when she was setting out looking at colleges. We went to Binghamton University and she walked in on the campus and she fell in love with it. It was really quite large. It was pretty. And it was summertime there because it's a little different in the winter when it snows every day. But she fell in love with Binghamton and that was her choice to go there.
Binghamton is a very well renowned SUNY and it's difficult to get into and I was very proud of her for choosing Binghamton. I thought it was a good fit for her.
She applied to the nursing school at Binghamton University for her junior year and she got accepted into the program in the Decker School of Nursing.
She thrived in that program and she loved it. And then she even applied for an externship at Northwell and she got it. And she was home all summer working really hard, putting on her scrubs. It was almost magical to me because I've never had anybody in my family being in the medical career. So I thought this is going to be perfect for her.
Kevin lived in Long Island as well, so I think when I met Kevin the first time, he came over to our house. They had a lot of fun together, and they would make each other laugh, and they just had so many things in common. It was just a very easy...
But when it started getting closer to her graduation time, she started thinking about if she wanted to be in a serious relationship. So there were a couple of times with Kevin that they talked about putting it on hold for a while.
I went up on Super Bowl weekend, it was like the third and fourth of February, and that's when I met him for the first time of 2018. I know he was born in Miami, but he had dual citizenship with the United States and Nicaragua. Orlando's sister was nearby, I think in Queens. His mother and his father were living in Nicaragua.
His father was a doctor, so he wanted to kind of follow in his footsteps and become a nurse in the medical field. His father had passed away. Haley befriended him, as she did many of the people in the nursing program.
Haley was just ready to start her independent life free from anything that was going to keep her attached to one area. She wanted to have a career and really embrace the career and embrace the perks that come from having that salary and ability to travel. She had a job lined up at Northwell, you know, as long as she passed her nursing boards. So that would have been the next step.
She would have graduated and studied for nursing boards, taken those in June and hopefully gotten her career. Haley called me to talk about her tax return. She was all excited because she was going to get $400 back. And I said, I love you. And she said, I love you. And I said, talk to you soon. And we hung up. And that was Tuesday.
And then on Thursday, she was supposed to go to her roommate's poetry reading. But she didn't show up.
Haley's roommates were calling her and calling her, but she wasn't answering. And that's when they started to get concerned. And I didn't even know they couldn't get in touch with Haley. Friday morning, that's when they checked the Find My Friends app on the iPhone. And they saw that it was at 23 Oak Street, which is where Orlando's apartment was.
So that's when her roommate went over to the apartment. And no one answered the door. And they climbed through the window. And that's when they found Haley.
I had just come home from school and I pulled up to my house and there was a big black car. And there were two men sitting in the car with suits on. And I pulled into my driveway and I got into my house and I just kept looking out the window because I was like, that's so odd. And it kind of scared me. I was like, oh God, who's in trouble, you know?
Kept looking out the window and they weren't coming and they weren't coming. So I started feeding my dogs. And then all of a sudden I see them take a big swig of water. and get out of the car, two of them together, shut the door, and they start walking up my driveway. And my heart was pounding so fast. And they knocked on my door, and I walked out. And I said, can I help you?
They're like, yeah, we need to talk to you. I go, can we talk here? They go, no, we need to talk inside. And they sat me down at the dining room table. And they just said, homicide. And then I heard them say 23 Oak Street. And then Haley. And then from then on, it's really It's just a blur. The police officers, they didn't tell me how it happened.
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