Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Brett.

And the story I have for you today is about the chillingly similar murders of two girls that have haunted Tacoma, Washington for decades.

This is the story of Michelle Welch and Jennifer Bastion. I'm going to be here. Oh, August 4th, 1986 is a quiet summer night in Tacoma, Washington.

Patty Bastion is expecting an easy shift at the local store where she works, and it is is but her night gets up ended with a single

phone call it's her husband Ralph and he is frantic telling her that she needs to get home

right now.

Their 13 year old daughter, Jennifer, is missing.

And at first, Patty's like, what do you mean missing?

Like it probably doesn't even fully register for her.

This has to be a mistake. But Ralph tells her that Jennifer never came home for dinner.

Now, Patty had been at work for a while now, so she's trying to like piece together what her husband is telling her.

And what she gathers is telling her.

And what she gathers is that Jennifer had called Ralph at like 2 PM

while he was at work and asked him if it was okay

to ride her bike through this nearby park

that was just a couple of miles away.

She's been training for a few weeks for this upcoming

YMCA biking trip in the San Juan Islands, and she wanted to just get another ride in.

So he told her, yeah, fine, go, but call when you get home, which, per a note she left on the

counter, should have been 630. But she hadn't called. And now he's home, and both her and

her bike aren't, which he knows is too long.

And this is only mentioned once in the sources, but Jennifer supposedly had plans to be home

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