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I left it open for you guys. There we go. Oh.

You want to sit like somewhere comfortable or what do you want to do?

Want something to eat? Want a piece of cake or something?

I have a Susan Lucci doll.

You know, it's funny because I love soap operas and all that.

For a guy, he was the best gift giver and just very thoughtful and did it all himself. Like he didn't just go to the mall and buy anything. He knew what you were into.

When Richard had a sore throat, I would run him to the doctors and Christine always would say, if I said I had a sore throat, you'd say, spray your throat, you're all right.

Everything to me is happy and sad.

He's just never been here since Richard disappeared. Let's face it, he's never been the same. No, no. No, never. He's the shell of the person he used to be. He is not at all who he was.

I had to keep going, which I still am doing, even though it's like yesterday for me.

I remember Christine calling me. She said, Mom, Richard's missing. I said, missing? What do you mean? He's home. There's NASCAR today. He would never leave the house. He's home.

And she said, Danielle didn't show up for an appointment today, and she never does that, and he's not home. He's missing.

And so I called his phone a million times, and it just went right to voicemail. He would never not answer his phone to me. Never.

It's just going right to voicemail. Now I call my sister and I said to her, you gotta go in his apartment.

She said, no, nobody came back here. And the dog's barking.

He would never go anywhere without telling me. I knew immediately. Immediately. And I said, oh my God, this could not be happening, but I lost my son today. Oh my God. Christine said, we're never going to see them again, are we, Mom? I said, no, we're not. No, we're not.

He said, what are you saying? I'm saying... that something terrible happened to your son.

We were all out together that night. Went to Chickie and Pete's.

That was really like a spur of the moment thing. I don't think he even knew that she was gonna actually go with him.

Richard was at another taproom having dinner and told Christine to drop her off. She would go with Richard that night.