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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] hello kristin thank you for taking some time to chat with me today
i have heard through the grapevine and many good things about murder she told your podcast telling
true crime stories and the listeners have told me that you did a fantastic episode on
danielle bertolini who has been requested by several of our listeners that we cover her case
and so i'm so glad that uh kristen you were able to sit down and chat with me today to teach
me and inform me and the rest of us about this missing person's case yeah thank you so much for having me
i'm very excited to be here and i'm also happy to hear that people are requesting
her story um this is probably the most personal story that i've covered and i've become invested in
since starting murder she told so i'm a big advocate for it and i'm happy to talk with somebody else who is as
well in march you did some episodes titled murder mountain and it looks like murder
mountain your story has been centered around a couple of things one the missing person's case of danielle
bertolini but also the and also the humble five did i get that right yeah so danielle
is one of the humble missing five that's what they were initially called um it's five women i honestly i didn't
really dig too deep into their cases on my episode because it was mostly just focused on danielle but um
it was originally called the humboldt missing five and then danielle bertolini and sheila
franks's remains were found so now it's mostly known as the humboldt county five
okay so tell us you have a direct direct connection to danielle is that correct yes so tell me a little
bit about that so danielle bertolini was a childhood friend of mine she grew up in central maine and
i remember her as just really spunky and friendly and a little bit of a troublemaker but
in the best way and i know that her mother would agree with me on that and i remember when she first went
missing i'm still facebook friends with her facebook profile and with her mother and i
started following this case but i felt like there wasn't much that i could do like i was in
school at the time and then when i started murder she told this was a case that has kind of like
sat in my heart for a while and i knew that i wanted to give it the platform to be told in the way it should be told
which is through her mother and without any polishing um but yeah so she was a childhood friend
and she grew up in central maine and this is a story that you don't really hear about
especially around here so so she moved out to california and how long is she in california before
we find out that now we have a missing person's case so she moved out to california
in 2010 so she was there for a couple of years and i actually didn't know this because
you know the media only skims the surface i didn't know that danielle had went through something traumatic
to get her out to california in the first place billy joe talks about this in detail and
you know a trigger warning for anyone listening that has ever lost a child in 2010 danielle found that she
was pregnant and she was about six and a half months along when they did the first ultrasound
and it was a boy and she wanted to name him xavier david but the outlook on it wasn't good xavier
had edward syndrome which is a rare condition and it causes developmental delays
and it gives him an extra 18th chromosome i think i got that right and billy joe also told me that he had
a tumor on his brain and his kidney so the outlook was not great danielle was 20 years old and
the doctor basically said that the baby wasn't going to make it to full term and he advised her to have a late term
abortion but she didn't want to have that she wanted to try and see if she could
make this work

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Brief Summary

Kristen shares the story of her childhood friend Danielle Bertolini, a missing person connected to the Humboldt County Five.

Key points

The Humboldt Missing Five. Danielle Bertolini is one of the Humboldt Missing Five, a group of women whose cases have garnered attention.
A Personal Connection. Kristin reveals her childhood friendship with Danielle Bertolini, making the case deeply personal.
A Heartbreaking Decision. Danielle faced a traumatic pregnancy and chose to fight for her baby despite the odds.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This is probably the most personal story that I've covered.

Kristin shares her emotional connection to the case.

1:04WatchJun 1, 2021

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