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able to comfort them because you will know exactly how they feel. Maybe that is the purpose. I

wish I could help you more.”
Funeral Director Ken Biggs came forward to dismiss the group but, at that same moment,

Darlene’s mother stood and silently stared at her daughter’s casket. The room was totally silent.
Ken gave her the final moment she needed.
What must she have been thinking? About the joyful day Darlene was bom? Her first steps,

first words, first day of school, first date? Or about the unspeakable terror of her daughter’s final
moments before death? Only she would ever know.

The moment was over and Ken dismissed us. I went to Darlene’s mother and said “God
bless you.” She thanked me and I walked outside into the bright afternoon sun.

Three years later, Darlene’s death is still a mystery, though it was featured on TV’s
“Unsolved Mysteries” and an appeal for help was made.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Department continues an active investigation.

‘Eerie Things 9

October 27,1992

Some eerie things happened to three of my Lake City friends - experiences so uncommon
they didn’t want their names in the paper.

The first friend is a retired executive secretary. She awoke abruptly one morning at 2:00 am.
clearly hearing the voice of her older son calling, “Mama, Mama.” She was startled because her
older son lives with his family three hours to the south and he has never returned home unexpectedly.

She went to the door. Nobody was there. She looked around the house. No one was in the house

at all except her and her still sleeping husband.
She was so disturbed she could not go back to sleep. She KNEW she had heard her son’s
voice. At 6:00 a.m., the son’s father-in-law telephoned. “Is anything wrong with my son?” the

mother asked immediately. The man replied, “Yes, he was hurt this morning in a motorcycle

accident, around 2:00 a.m.”

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