It's been 1084 days since I lost my daughter.
I don't know if I can do this.
Out there.
Yeah, it's whatever makes
you comfortable, yeah.
I just don't even know where to start.
And my name is Christy Rush,
and I am Autumn Stone's mother.
I am James and I am autumn's father.
James, tell us about autumn.
What about her? Brightened up your life.
Everything. She's just very caring and
loving and giving and. So you just
have the purest heart. She was 23.
Just barely 23.
It started off a really, really good day,
going to Green Lake that day.
She had came to me the day
before and she said, you know,
I'm going to go do this.
She was super excited. You know,
she was going to have a mommy day.
She was gonna go and get her a pedicure.
As far as I know, she was going alone.
And then go back to. Wow.
The the phone call.
I got a phone call. At 9:45.
The phone call that I got at 10:00 o'clock.
August 30th.
From the Seattle medical examiner's office.
I don't know how to put into words
what it's like to lose your daughter.
They they found my daughter with,
you know, shoelaces around
her neck and her sweater was
zipped up over the shoelaces.
They have no proof.
They have nothing saying that
there was any foul play there.
There's just no way. There's no way.
I I don't believe that even the
slightest bit that she took her own life,
she was engaged to be married.
I could show you pictures.
She was just so happy.
But you can just see her,
you know, she's just,
she's just super happy.
I'm just full of life and January
of 2020 when we initially
learned that. The case had
been closed as a suicide.
We reached out to Brent because we were
not getting anywhere with the police.
But yeah, so this is this
is the year right now.
So she walked here.
A lot of time for somebody to see her.
If she was with somebody,
her shoes were found here.
Were the shoes found over
here missing shoelaces?
Yeah, they were the same shoelaces
that came with the shoes.
We went to the manufacturer's.
Hers best had been zipped up.
And she had been put in the water.
How did she zip up her vest?
If she'd been unconscious just doesn't
make any sense.
None of it makes any sense.
How many times do you come out here? No.
Too many.
I just looked for answers.
I don't have any.
There's enough evidence that that
he's found that it won't be gave us.
The ability to go back to
the police and say, look,
we need to open this case again.
And that's what they did.
Autumn Stone's parents tell me
they believed she was murdered.
When I reached out to Seattle
PD for insight on this case,
I was told it's an open case and they
couldn't release any information as
it pertains to their investigation.
My most recent inquiry to
Seattle PD went unanswered.
File that we've been keeping.
It has anything and everything
related to my daughter's death.
I don't believe that.
It was a random act.
I think it was an act of.
Passion and and it was to silence her.
And unfortunately she's a
statistic at this point and
I'd like to change that. What
do you think will break
this case? Open the DNA?
I do. I struggle with it every day.
Yeah, it's hard.
The pain doesn't go away, you know?
We just want answers.
But even then, it's going to
be something I deal with every
day for the rest of my life.
It's a heartbreaking case.
It is excruciating to see the pain that
they're still in three years later.
Yeah, Joyce and Greg,
Autumn's father is asking anyone who
may have been at Green Lake on that day,
August 30th, 2019,
to look back through their photos,
their videos, to see if they saw something.
Seattle police would like to hear from
you if you know anything in this case.