What happened to Rebekah? (Part 1 of 2)
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Who is Rebekah Barsotti and what led to her disappearance?
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We used to watch Gate Line and Twenty
Twenty and all those shows and I'd I'd go, How in the world does somebody go missing? How does that happen? And then here I found myself living it.
Welcome to the knife. I'm Pacia Eaton. This week we have part one of a two-part series. Part two will air next week. Today, I'm speaking with Angela Mastrovito, the mother of Rebecca Barsotti. In the summer of 2021, Rebecca went missing in the small town of Superior, Montana, a place she'd only briefly returned to at the request of her estranged husband, David Barsotti. Rebecca's mother, Angela, tells us about her daughter Rebecca, her life, and the events leading. Up to her strange disappearance. For Angela, the search for Rebecca that followed would leave more questions than answers. What really happened to Rebecca? Let's get into the interview. Hi, Angela. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today.
Certainly. I really appreciate the opportunity, Pasha, to be able to share awareness about Rebecca's story and about Rebecca's legacy and getting the information out there.
So I wanna start just back at the beginning. If you could tell us a little bit about yourself.
A little bit about myself. I'm almost seventy years young and I am a wife and a mom and a grandma. I myself was one of five. siblings growing up. I lived in a blended family. My parents were divorced and used to go back and forth between mom's house and dad's house. I did grow up with what they would today call abuse. I mean, there was fighting and hollering and throwing objects and all kinds of stuff and taking my age into consideration, at that point in time, people did not talk about this. And you didn't even know what was normal and what was abnormal because no one spoke of it. Right. So I went into my adulthood with no real concept of what a normal relationship looked like. I have been married three times.
The first one was emotionally abusive. The second one also emotionally abusive. And now I have a really good man. So I'm very thankful.
During her first marriage, Angela gave birth to her son, Antonio. But the marriage ended and when Antonio or Tony was two, Angela remarried, but her second husband also became abusive, especially to her son, Tony. This was the early 1980s, and they were living in rural Virginia. Angela asked for help from local organizations, churches, and school counselors, but the help that she needed never came. So she and Tony found other ways to survive.
It was at a time where you would go for help and no one no one would help you. The police would come and say, you look like a great family, work it out.
Was there physical abuse then?
Yeah, there was excessive spanking and there was abuse there. Tony and I went to counseling and basically we were told how to learn all the warning signs. Don't put yourself in a corner. Make sure you're out of the house as often as you can be. So that was pretty much how we lived our life. We slept at home, but we didn't stay at home. And you know, when I had been trying to find ways to leave. And then when I found out I was pregnant, it was like, oh shit, what do I do now? I just took it as a sign that you know Rebecca was gonna be my gift from God. And that things were gonna work out. Rebecca was and is my gift from God. When I was pregnant with her, I used to sit and sing to her even before she was born.
So when she was in the womb. And I would sing a song after we chose her name. I would sing the song Rebecca Grace Rose as a gift from God. And I would sing that over and over and over to her. And unlike her brother who took like twenty some hours in labor. We're back. Rebecca was just like, I'm here and I'm here now and I'm not waiting. She was born on December twenty eighth, nineteen eighty-seven, in the middle of a wicked snowstorm and ice storm.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Rebekah Barsotti and what led to her disappearance?
0:01–5:25
2
How did Angela’s early life and abusive relationships shape her view of family?
5:25–11:29
3
What role did Rebekah’s love of horses and work history play in her adult life?
11:29–16:54
4
Why did Rebekah decide to file domestic‑violence charges against David?
16:54–21:58
5
What was the plan for Rebekah’s meeting with David’s caretaker on July 20, 2021?
21:58–27:14
6
How did the mysterious rock‑throwing incident at Council Grove affect Rebekah’s safety concerns?
27:14–32:27
7
What happened after David texted Angela that Rebekah was missing?
32:27–38:03
8
How did Angela and her family respond in the days following Rebekah’s disappearance?
38:03–42:14