Status Change
However, despite being correct, labeling Crystal as a runaway robbed her family of the precious resources that would have been necessary to find her. A few months after that, she was updated to endangered missing, before the case eventually ran cold.
Lost Hope
After updating Crystal’s status to endangered missing, it meant that the police were now searching for a body and not a person. Crystal’s case had been turned into just another one of many, and eventually, it began to fall through the cracks.