in a quiet rural township in michigan, as october chilled into autumn, two young women prepared for the social event of the season. it s gonna be great. there will be so many people. so they imagined. , so they hoped, in their naivete. then so many others of a particular demographic of the farms and in the small towns around moran county. it was a buildup that whole summer that we coordinate way to go to the halloween party. halloween! becky brinson and her friend chelsea bruck just loved dressing up for halloween. chelsea and becky worked together at a restaurant called olga s kitchen in monroe and, as they served their customers, they talked endlessly about what was coming. this wasn t going to be just any halloween party. it was big mike s annual halloween bash of 2014. everyone just everyone knew, big mike has the biggest halloween party. and after all, their friends were going and there d be bands and noise and excitement and, who knew what all there d
find any scrap metal that i could take out. i was in a rock in a hard place and i needed money pretty quickly and what do we call that, scrapping, or something? yeah. it was scrapping. erik wasn t having much luck. and then inside this half-collapsed ruin, he turned over a piece of disintegrating plywood and i saw what i thought was like it looked kinda like a plant, like a fake plant, so i went and picked it up. i didn t realize what it was, because it was all bunched up. it had leafs on it, like fake leafs. sewn on? yeah. there was also a maroon wig. i did see the wig and kinda creeped me out, so i didn t wanna pick it up at all. so what d you and your friend do at that point?
because it was all bunched up. it had leafs on it, like fake leafs. sewn on? yeah. there was also a maroon wig. i did see the wig and kinda creeped me out, so i didn t wanna pick it up at all. so what d you and your friend do at that point? i showed him. he told me it was a poison ivy costume. we actually contemplated keeping it cause it looked cool. yeah. and decided that it wasn t worth our time, threw it back down right where it was underneath the plywood and then continued to look for scrap metal. the two left with what little metal they could salvage and forgot all about it until about a week later, i was at work and i saw a poster for the missing girl wearing that costume.