A NETWORKING TRIPS FOR COLDCASE/MISSING FAMILIES-Driving with Britt on Route 66 visits Chicago 7/7 to 7/13

My 25th Caravan to Catch a Killer tour-Driving with Britt on Route 66 has now added 1000 miles to my 350000 miles through 48 States on 24 previous tours. Contacts in Tulsa, Joplin, Springfield MO, and a great meeting of multiple families in St. Louis (that will now meet as a group) have made the trip rewarding. After such success in the multi-family group meeting in St. Louis , the lack of interaction in the Bloomington/Normal/Springfield area with two events-yesterday 7/5 and today  7/6 of Networking at Panera, had no participants, I have learned this is a hard path and not every city, not every person feels safe to come to the events. I want people to take care of themselves. That is why I keep doing this. 

But as I age, (now 71) I just have one request. I have been doing CARAVANS for 19 years.  350000 miles thru 48 States on 24 previous tours. With as much as I covered, I still will never  reach all the families that a National news show on CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX or any other National coverage would. I live by the pod casts we get but many families do not know of these. National news could help publicize that. There are Coldcase families, missing families and more sitting on the shadows of every city in the USA. When these famous murders and missing get coverage, these millions of families ache in the silence of their stories.

*******Tell them how cold case/missing families travelling this path of unknown when something happens, is, on the 100th anniversary of Route 66,  like the building of Route 66; face with a need for connection, facing roadblocks, trials and tribulations , more loss but resilience that leads them to connect

Lets help them!!! 

National news tell me they have millions of families writing them and they can't tell every story but when multiple write them about the same story, they think it will sell.

SOOOOOOOO Please send just a few sentences to any of the National shows (listed above or you know of). You can find them by searching on FB Instagram X, Youtube and more  

Then ask five of your friends to do so, and ask them to ask five of their friends. National news picks stories they think people are interested in an d often won't do the stories where it is only the family contacting them.

YOU CAN WRITE JUST A FEW SENTENCES.  Are you aware of the mother who has traveled 350000 miles through 48 States on 25 tours, all self funding with four different cars, each wrapped with her murdered daughters picture and Caravan to catch a killer on all sides. While started to help solve her daughters murder, for at least 10 years it has been used to network with cold case / missing families, to help with advocating their cases, telling their stories, helping them find resources, helping them to create their own support network. 

PLEASE HELP !!  WE NEED NATIONAL MEDIA, not just local) NATIONAL MEDIA TO  ABOUT AND WHY THE CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER TOUR EXISTS TO HELP ALL COLDCASE/MISSING US FAMILIES TO CONNECT, THIS TIME ON ROUTE 66!!!

 

Caravan to Catch a Killer still in Bloomington/Normal Springfield Illinois area!!!! Meet me and the mission to help local coldcase/Missing

 Meeting today in Normal/Bloomington IL. at 4pm at Panera on Veterans Parkway. Bring your cold case or missing story, bring your story of how you are an advocate. I will be there for two hours. If you can't meet then , come to ---Panera on South Dirksen Parkway Monday at 10am---. We may have your local  channel 20 wanting to talk to families. There is no cost, just time. I travel cross country each year to help cold case families connect, find advocacy, find connection to other families learn about law passage that helps homicide, missing and any type of cold case  survivors. I have traveled over 350000 miles through 48 States, now on 25 tours. This 25th is  called "Driving with Britt on Route 66-Mothers load on the Mother Road because the building of Route66 is a metaphor , a symbol of the building of resilience for cold case families and representative of how after trials, tribulations, loss, hardship and roadblocks, a connection gets made between families hidden in the shadow of the US.

WE HEAD TO CHICAGO ON TUESDAY!!!

Caravan to Catch a Killer tour #25-Driving with Britt on Route 66-Mothers' loads on the Mother Road

 This first week of #drivingwithbrittonroute66 on the 25th Caravan to Catch a Killer tour, has been such a gift. Start off at Tulsa under the Route 66 Span and singing Bridge with local families, then stops in Vinita OK, Joplin, Springfield Missouri and St. Louis. Each stop had gifts whether meeting with families, Advocacy groups and podcasts. St. Louis was the first large Route 66 family meeting of Illinois and Missouri families and WHAT A SHOWING!!! This group has now formed and will have monthly support meetings and develop advocacy. THIS IS WHAT THESE TOURS ARE ABOUT!!!!

On to Springfield/Bloomington Illinois area next for a week and then Chicago. LET ME KNOW IF YOU KNOW MISSING OR COLD CASE FAMILIES ALONG THIS ROUTE (or even elsewhere).

I have now traveled 350000 miles through 48 States with more than 300 local reporters sharing the stories of the girl next door, the boy next door, the man next door, the woman next door hidden in shadows.

Caravan tours started in 2007 as we had hundreds of suspects compared to one DNA profile and not matching. Brittany's case was middle class, in middle America and not a sensational twist and national news did not seem interested so I somehow designed this idea of taking her story cross country. The first ten years  , it was more about seeing if other states had similar cases but as I met more and more cold case families along the routes I realized I needed to help give them voice. Thus for the last ten years I have met families along the route, helping them network, get voice, help pass laws. Yes I am on Route 66 now but in between working I take tours everywhere. Come visit me at Facebook.com/mom.missing.brittany. Let me kn ow your story.

Take a picture, send it to me. I have maps I made and will post on these. YOU ALL HAVE A PLACE IN MY HEART!!!!

Driving with Britt on Route 66--Mothers load on the Mother Road

 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!