First few days on the 25th Caravan to Catch a Killer tour!!! This four to five week phase from Tulsa to Chicago on Route 66 . Meeting, (hopefully) with cold case families-Murder, missing, abducted, etc along the road. I have covered 350000 miles through 48 States on now 25 tours, first only seeking attention to our murder when in the first 5 years we turned over hundreds of suspects with no match to our DNA or other evidence.
Yet, as I traveled I met more and more families impacted by this never ending loss. Thus over the last 10 years, the tours have been more about connecting to other families, giving them voice, helping them create support networks and learning about laws that can help survivors and their cases!!!!
Why Route 66? The building of Route 66 was, at times called the culture of calamity. This was due to the trials and tribulations, roadblocks, losses, how before thee road it was separation of families and during the building, separation of families.
The path of cold case families is similar but it is our connection that brings voices across the US. Contact me here or on Facebook.com/mom.missing.brittany or through therapoet@aol.com. I am also a trauma focused psychologist for more than 35 years way before the loss of Brittany but I still had to go through the loss, the grief, the anger and all the emotions but I knew I had to walk towards it not away. I also knew, though hard, I had to live because of the loss, in honor of the loss and in spite of the loss.
Everyone I meet on the road has a place in my heart.
In Springfield MO through Friday, then St. Louis and the Chicago area but contact me where ever you are!
