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Trace Evidence

225 - The Disappearance of Kristen Charbonneau

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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On a hot and humid summer afternoon in North Texas, a twenty-four year old woman seemingly vanished in broad daylight. Just before 4 PM, Kristen Charbonneau stepped out from beneath the pink canopy of Baby Doll's, a gentleman's club located on the border between Euless and Fort Worth. She has never been seen again.

For years her family have waged a dedicated campaign to bring attention to her case, to locate the missing woman and to see the man responsible placed behind bars. Just when the case was beginning to grow cold everything changed when a suspect was arrested and charged with first degree murder.

Unfortunately, after a prime witness recanted her statement, he walked free, leaving both investigators and the Charbonneau family to continue the search for Kristen while wading through a murky pool of lies, deception and immeasurable grief.

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Transcript

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On a hot, sticky, overcast day in North Texas, a 24-year-old woman would go missing in

0:45.4

broad daylight from the wide open parking lot of a bar set beside a busy road.

0:51.6

Kristen Sharbino was employed as a dancer at the venue and was waiting on a cab for a ride

0:56.4

home.

0:57.7

Despite countless witnesses inside, Kristen seemingly vanished into thin air less than

1:03.0

five minutes after walking outside.

1:06.6

For her family, it was a clear cut case of foul play.

1:10.5

Kristen wasn't the type to just run off, and as hours became days, it was apparent

1:15.1

something was very wrong.

1:17.5

When she was reported missing, investigators apparently didn't feel the same sense of

1:22.1

urgency that the family was plagued with, and so the ball began rolling slowly.

1:27.6

However, months into the investigation, detectives would have only one person of interest, a customer

1:34.0

at the bar, a man who walked out at the same time Kristen was leaving.

1:39.1

The investigation into him, however, would hit countless dead ends from his evasiveness

1:44.3

to questioning to a disturbing admission later recanted, upon which the entirety of the

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