Stephanie Ramos

When you walked out of that room, what went through your mind?

What were you thinking?

I was frustrated because I wanted to be able to give answers to the family, and he just wasn't providing any.

At the time of Eugene Gligor's arrest, Lauren Prier had lived through more than two decades of pain and confusion.

From 2001 on, the mystery of who killed her mother remained unsolved.

And for years, suspicion hung over her father, Sandy Prier.

Sandy died without knowing the truth.

He never got closure.

And Lauren thought she might not either.

But when we spoke, Lauren told me there came a moment sometime in the years after her father died where she felt like she might finally be able to make peace with everything that had happened.

If I have to accept this, then I have to because my parents are together and I can't live the rest of my life every single day alone.

in pain and in fear and scared and sad, that's not the right path.

The right path is it happens.

And you have to give yourself grace, but you can't live every single day with terror and fear and sadness.

You're never going to get through.

So you were already telling yourself, I need to accept this.

Correct.

Both my parents are gone.

I need to move on.

Right.