I Miss My Mom
3/2/202645 min
She was four years old when Christopher Wilder stole her mother. For forty years, Mindy Walden told no one her story. Now, she's ready to speak.
Terry Walden was 23 — a nursing student, a young mom who loved baking and birthday parties. In March 1984, a stranger approached her on her university campus in Beaumont, Texas, and told her she could be a model. Terry called him a dirty pervert. The next morning, he was waiting beside her car. Terry never came home.
Her four-year-old daughter knew. Dropped at daycare that morning, Mindy screamed and so...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Miguel0:07
Hey, this is Miguel.
Christina0:11
And Christina.
Miguel0:11
We're the hosts of They Reminisce Over You, a podcast that dives into the music, movies, and TV that defined the hip hop, R&B, and pop culture of the '90s and early 2000s.
Christina0:20
If you know the choreo to New Edition's If It Isn't Love or still quote Menace II Society- "What you say about my mama?" ... then this is for you.
Miguel0:28
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Speaker 10:38
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Christina0:48
[gentle music] I have nightmares of her. I remember her doing laundry at night, and I'll wake up and get out of bed and look at her and say, "Hey Mom, what are you doing?" And she'll just look at me and stare at me, but she won't talk. Her mouth is shut. And I'm like, "Mom, why are you doing laundry right now?" And she, she just stares at me. No voice, because I can't remember her voice.
Mark Llewellyn· Host1:15
We're on our way to Beaumont, which is a 90-minute drive from Houston. Temperature is pushing up 97 degrees Fahrenheit. It's humid. It's a very, very hot day. And we're on our way to meet