Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 12 segments
This episode originally aired on December 5, 2022. Since then, there have been significant developments in Aidan Spear’s case. Stay tuned to the end of the episode for an update. On January 24, 2022…
Jessica was a young mother trying to navigate being a first-time mom, but she adored Aiden and remembers those early days fondly.
I was 19 years old, and Aiden was born on July 5th, and she was eight pounds, nine ounces, and she was the best baby that I think there ever was.
She was happy, and she didn't cry, and she was just adorable and spoiled and loved by both sides of her grandparents, and she was the best.
I would've never imagined this.
Her dad and I had been together, and then we were, like, on again, off again.
And then when I found out that I was pregnant, we tried to work it out.
[scoffs] Well, before I got married to my husband, I was single for a long time because, you know, the relationship with Aiden's dad ended up being pretty traumatic and I was single for a very long time.
I was pretty young when Aiden was born, and so my interactions with her, how I remember her mostly is as a little girl, or I knew her somewhat as a teenager, but she was kind of always awkward and shy.
Aiden was sweet.
She was always polite.
She was really funny, and she was sarcastic.
So as she got older, I didn't really know her.
Of course, I went away to college.
I moved, uh, away to Ohio, and then I eventually went to grad school in Washington, DC, so I didn't have those interactions with her.
You know, and then of course, as a teenager, she moved away.
They moved...
No one knew it at the time, but this move from the eastern side of Washington State to Tacoma about 300 miles away seemed to change the trajectory of Aiden's life forever.
Jessica was a young mother trying to navigate being a first-time mom, but she adored Aiden and remembers those early days fondly.
I was 19 years old, and Aiden was born on July 5th, and she was eight pounds, nine ounces, and she was the best baby that I think there ever was.
She was happy, and she didn't cry, and she was just adorable and spoiled and loved by both sides of her grandparents, and she was the best.
I would've never imagined this.
Her dad and I had been together, and then we were, like, on again, off again.
And then when I found out that I was pregnant, we tried to work it out.
[scoffs] Well, before I got married to my husband, I was single for a long time because, you know, the relationship with Aiden's dad ended up being pretty traumatic and I was single for a very long time.
I was pretty young when Aiden was born, and so my interactions with her, how I remember her mostly is as a little girl, or I knew her somewhat as a teenager, but she was kind of always awkward and shy.
Aiden was sweet.
She was always polite.
She was really funny, and she was sarcastic.
So as she got older, I didn't really know her.
Of course, I went away to college.
I moved, uh, away to Ohio, and then I eventually went to grad school in Washington, DC, so I didn't have those interactions with her.
You know, and then of course, as a teenager, she moved away.
They moved...
No one knew it at the time, but this move from the eastern side of Washington State to Tacoma about 300 miles away seemed to change the trajectory of Aiden's life forever.
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