On June 3, 2026, four years after 30-year-old Krystal Anderson disappeared, authorities announced that her remains have been identified.
Dateline first covered Krystal’s case in September 2022, a month after she vanished, and spoke with her sister, Shadira Smothers.
Shadira told Dateline that on Tuesday, August 23, she received a concerning phone call from the father of one of Krystal’s children. He said Krystal had failed to pick up their son from his house that Sunday and that he had not heard from her…