on each other, they were smitten. tim planned on becoming a minister but felt he was too young and inexperienced to live up to the responsibility. so he took a dramatic u-turn and found a very different calling in bars and clubs as the karaoke king of the quad cities. he was very good at running karaoke. he was funny. he entertained the customers and got out there and danced with them and would sing songs. he was a good guy. tim, a divorced father of two, was ten years older than carrie, but that didn t seem to matter. they were having fun and carrie could imagine a future together. she saw everyone around her getting married and having children and myself included and i know she wanted that. but tim wasn t interested in having more children and that was a deal breaker for carrie so they decided to go their
i even contacted dateline and they published her story. when we posted carrie s story as part of dateline online missing in america series was shared 42,000 times. did you feel like something like that could help? just getting it out on a national level? i think it helped a lot. thousands started to follow amanda s page. carrie s story united the quad cities in a remarkable way. everyone wanted to help and everyone was hoping for a break in the case, but they were also on edge. did you just start to have worse and worse thoughts as you waited? i did. what were you told? she did not show up for work. the family was concerned. the family was so concerned they called the police. the case went to detectives rick vogt and bill thomas. justin s live-in boyfriend told
scholarship in her parents names. as for the offbeat museum of a home, still there with a loving daughter as caretaker. that is all for this edition of dateline. see you next time. s edition of dateline. see you next time. i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. it was rough. it was a rough time for the whole community. it hit her town like a lightning bolt. the strange disappearance of carrie olson. it was scary. everyone loved carrie. it was so painful. you reached out to dateline. i did, yes. we started getting people following our page. where was she? what was behind this? from far home, a lead. i saw the tattoo and said, that is her tattoo, isn t it? three caught on camera clues.