“I celebrate my mother, and I don’t necessarily grieve her. I miss her. Love her. But I try to celebrate her and celebrate the memories and not focus on the negative of how she left us.”
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — High school and coming-of-age memories should be about first kisses, proms, driver's licenses, graduation, but the defining teenage memory for Kim Gilbert Wright was learning someone abducted and killed her mother, Jeanne Gilbert.That morning, between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m., according to Journal & Courier reports, a man forced Kim's mother from the Remington Days Inn and took her to a rural White County road, where he killed Jeanne.
“Unfortunately, I know the processes can be slower than most people want them to be,” she said of the long wait for justice and to solve cold cases. "My mom was my best friend," Kim said."She wasn’t just my mother. We had a really, really unique relationship.""When my parents divorced," she recalled, "I was tasked with helping my dad raise a 4-year-old. I took that task very seriously. I wasn’t like most kids going out … I would be the responsible teenager making sure the younger sibling was taken care of.
Kim and Jeanne typically passed each other on U.S. 231 as Jeanne was going home from work and Kim was going to school. "It was surreal at that point. It hadn’t really hit home what had happened. I didn’t know a lot of the details about what had happened at that point, other than she had been missing and that her body had been found.”Would things had been different if her mother hadn't changed shifts to watch Kim cheer? Or if Kim went to the hotel instead of being on time for school. Or...?
“I’m not going to say my first two years were easy. I didn’t want to be there without her,” she said. “I had to keep a certain GPA to keep my scholarship, and that’s exactly what I did.”
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