She told her mother she needed to break up with “that dude” and told her she “hated” him. Kristen’s memory was blocked and her affection for Pasma seemed to have vanished right along with it. In the weeks after Kristen was discovered bruised and bleeding on the road, she began to slowly regain consciousness, but the 23-year-old had no memory of what happened that mysterious night. Her mother, Pat, said Pasma “pretty much blew up” at her family after her parents had tried to stop him from driving after an afternoon of drinking.ĭespite the concerns of those around her, Kristen moved in with Pasma in the spring of 2009 to a house just off campus. Her dad, Rick, described how Pasma seemingly avoided him during a visit for dad’s weekend and her sister Shannon recalled a time Kristen had called her in tears because Pasma had locked her out of his house and forced her to walk all the way back to her apartment. Kristen’s friends said once the romance began, Kristen had started to pull away from friends she’d had for years, isolating herself with Pasma, who they described as controlling and possessive. “They were attached at the hip from the very beginning,” one friend told “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered.” “She wanted to marry him and have kids with him and they started planning their future.”īut not everyone saw Pasma’s appeal. Kristen and Pasma had met her senior year of college and quickly became smitten with one another. The 23-year-old - who friends described as upbeat, friendly, positive, and charismatic - had recently graduated from college and was living with her boyfriend, Richard Pasma. “Real simply put, we knew that somebody else knew about what happened,” Myers said.īefore she was discovered, Kristen seemingly had everything going for her. She had road rash on her body and investigators found a long trail of blood on the asphalt where she had been found, but no car, leading authorities to believe she may have fallen or been pushed from a vehicle. Kristen had been left in a coma, still struggling to survive from serious bruising on her brain. I mean, Kristen’s a very beautiful girl and then to see her, you know, her hair all cut and matted with blood, you know, just seeing your own child go through what that pain must have been like was just, is just impossible for us to take,” Rick said. When they reached Spokane, they were ushered into an intensive care unit where they found their once-vivacious daughter unconscious and hooked up to a series of tubes and monitors. “I just remember praying like I’ve never prayed before in my life, you know, ‘Hang on, Kristen we’re coming, hang on,’” Rick recalled. “All we know is that we have an injured female in the middle of the road and we have very little evidence.”Īs Kristen was being rushed to a nearby hospital and then airlifted to Spokane, her parents, Pat and Rick Grindley, were trying to come to grips with the news that their daughter had been gravely injured. “We didn’t know if it’s an attempted murder or if it’s just a bad accident,” Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers said of the perplexing scene.
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