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“You cannot imagine what it feels like to know those precious years when family and friends could have done much more if we had all known differently is like. It hurts and it’s a cold reality.”
She continued to say that Diane’s brother Dean and her dad Bill always appreciated the support that Natja provided them over the decades, but they had asked her around 10 years ago to stop her search for Diane.
“I just couldn’t give up,” Natja wrote. “I knew they needed to let it go and move on but I just could not let it go. I disregarded their wishes with my pie in the sky dream that one day I would be able to call them with the good news.”
Dateline NBC even reached out to Natja, intending to cover Diane’s story. Diane’s family did not want to be interviewed by them, and so, Dateline asked Natja if she would do it.
At first, Natja didn’t want to follow through with the interview at all, but then some of her friends pushed her to.
She did it, and then she got some terrible backlash from people who accused her of being attention-seeking.
“That upset me deeply,” Natja recalled. “That was not the case and it infuriated me to no end.”
After that, another person convinced her to take part in a different interview that appeared on YouTube, and once it was shared, people on the internet began suggesting that maybe she had been part of Diane’s disappearance.
“People who commented on it were suddenly pointing their fingers at me,” Natja continued. “Maybe I had something to hide they suggested. As near as I could tell it was because I care too much, so there must be foul play on my part. “Whoever seems to care this much must have something to hide”. They said.”
“First time in 40 years anyone dared single me out. No one had any reason to before this. And they had no reason now.”
