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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] hello kristin thank you for taking some time to chat with me today
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i have heard through the grapevine and many good things about murder she told your podcast telling
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true crime stories and the listeners have told me that you did a fantastic episode on
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danielle bertolini who has been requested by several of our listeners that we cover her case
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and so i'm so glad that uh kristen you were able to sit down and chat with me today to teach
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me and inform me and the rest of us about this missing person's case yeah thank you so much for having me
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i'm very excited to be here and i'm also happy to hear that people are requesting
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her story um this is probably the most personal story that i've covered and i've become invested in
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since starting murder she told so i'm a big advocate for it and i'm happy to talk with somebody else who is as
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well in march you did some episodes titled murder mountain and it looks like murder
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mountain your story has been centered around a couple of things one the missing person's case of danielle
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bertolini but also the and also the humble five did i get that right yeah so danielle
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is one of the humble missing five that's what they were initially called um it's five women i honestly i didn't
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really dig too deep into their cases on my episode because it was mostly just focused on danielle but um
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it was originally called the humboldt missing five and then danielle bertolini and sheila
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franks's remains were found so now it's mostly known as the humboldt county five
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okay so tell us you have a direct direct connection to danielle is that correct yes so tell me a little
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bit about that so danielle bertolini was a childhood friend of mine she grew up in central maine and
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i remember her as just really spunky and friendly and a little bit of a troublemaker but
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in the best way and i know that her mother would agree with me on that and i remember when she first went
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missing i'm still facebook friends with her facebook profile and with her mother and i
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started following this case but i felt like there wasn't much that i could do like i was in
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school at the time and then when i started murder she told this was a case that has kind of like
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sat in my heart for a while and i knew that i wanted to give it the platform to be told in the way it should be told
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which is through her mother and without any polishing um but yeah so she was a childhood friend
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and she grew up in central maine and this is a story that you don't really hear about
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especially around here so so she moved out to california and how long is she in california before
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we find out that now we have a missing person's case so she moved out to california
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in 2010 so she was there for a couple of years and i actually didn't know this because
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you know the media only skims the surface i didn't know that danielle had went through something traumatic
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to get her out to california in the first place billy joe talks about this in detail and
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you know a trigger warning for anyone listening that has ever lost a child in 2010 danielle found that she
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was pregnant and she was about six and a half months along when they did the first ultrasound
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and it was a boy and she wanted to name him xavier david but the outlook on it wasn't good xavier
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had edward syndrome which is a rare condition and it causes developmental delays
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and it gives him an extra 18th chromosome i think i got that right and billy joe also told me that he had
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a tumor on his brain and his kidney so the outlook was not great danielle was 20 years old and
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the doctor basically said that the baby wasn't going to make it to full term and he advised her to have a late term
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abortion but she didn't want to have that she wanted to try and see if she could
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make this work