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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Now, the summer before her senior year in July of 2008, she took a trip to Portland, Oregon,
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Originally, she was only supposed to stay for three weeks, she would return home, kick off her senior year, graduate, and off to life.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
However, something happened on that trip, something that sparked something inside her, and she decided that she liked the West Coast so much, she wanted to stay.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
As such, she made a relatively abrupt decision on many reports, it is said, and moved to Northern California, moving in with some of the friends that she made while on that brief trip.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Specifically, she moved to Humboldt County, California in late September of that year.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Now, Fredo, I know that this isn't super close.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
It's like 300 miles north of San Francisco.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
But I'm curious, being an SF native, had you ever heard of Humboldt County or Eureka, California?
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Yeah, just curious.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
I mean, I don't know what else to glean other than maybe if you knew that it was.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Yeah, so I guess like going north, you're more looking for a natural escape, hiking, mountain climbing, maybe skiing, I'm assuming.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Yeah.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
So is Eureka known as a town like that or is it kind of just not really on the radar?
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Okay.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Interesting.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
Yeah, it is.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
I mean, it is a small town.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
I don't think I included the population, but if my memory serves and Christian double check for me, if you don't mind, please.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
I think it was something to the tune of like a few thousand people, maybe a couple thousand people.
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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters
So it is a small area.