Katharina Buczek
So, for one month, the jurisdictions were caught in a stalemate and refused to investigate the case.
It also did not help that Diane had a turbulent history– one that did not give authorities much confidence in her. The mother had divorced her husband not long after Misty was born in 1978. Then, Diane was left to raise Misty by herself while in her twenties.
This tough reality led Diane to work a lot, rely on food stamps, and succumb to alcohol addiction.
On top of that, Diane had also reported Misty missing only a few weeks before the Washington State Fair. But that was a false alarm, and Misty was later found in her bedroom later that same night.
Diane was still too embarrassed to share that information with the police, though. So, by the time Misty really did go missing at the Washington State Fair, her daughter’s missing person report was still open from weeks prior.
Ultimately, the police were simply wary of Diane’s credibility and were unsure if she had been “crying wolf.” This fact also eventually led authorities to question if Diane had been involved in her daughter’s disappearance.
A Puyallup Resident Gets Involved In The Investigation
Following Misty’s disappearance, Corey Bober, an ordinary Puyallup resident, later came to turn the investigation on its side.
He was especially interested in serial killers and had meticulously researched over two hundred throughout his lifetime. Corey kept all of his findings in neatly organized folders and was somehow even able to obtain information from police and medical examiners that were not readily available to the public.
And while Corey was investigating a murderer known as the Green River Killer– who had taken the lives of at least forty-nine teenage girls between the 1980s and 1990s in Washington State– he believed he unearthed the killer’s identity.
Corey long suspected another Puyallup resident named Dan since Dan apparently made a comment to Corey about how the killer had placed rocks inside the victims’ bodies.
