Over the weekend following swampy fells party, nobody saw or heard from Kristen Smart.

Sunday night came and went, but the smart family never got the phone call they were expecting

to hear about the good news Kristen was supposed to share.

No one thought much of it since it was a three day weekend.

Margarita compost. Kristen's friend and dorm mate, who separated from her a few blocks

away from the party.

Kristen had tucked Margarita's room key into her shoe before they split up and was supposed

to spend the night in Margarita's room.

The next morning, I didn't see her, but I figured she was sleeping later on that afternoon.

It was not back.

I figured she was just like doing her thing, like hanging out with other people.

I figured she had found the party, but then by the end of the day, it was like, wait,

now this is weird.

Now where are you seeing?

I figured out early on that small mistakes in news reports have snowballed into gospel

truth over the past 23 years.

In almost every official retelling of this story, Kristen's roommate, Crystal, is out

of town all weekend, which is why Kristen isn't reported missing for several days.

It turns out that's not correct.

Crystal spent Friday night off campus, but came back Saturday and saw Kristen's belonging

spread out all over her bed, like they had been the day before, which probably meant

that Kristen hadn't slept there.

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