Charlotte in particular loved to be outside. Yvonne said her daughter was adventurous and would jump at every opportunity to roll around in the dirt. “She was a tomboy,” Yvonne said. “She liked climbing trees and playing in the creek.”
But what Charlotte loved more than anything was her father, Richard Trego. The two were extremely close. Yvonne said their family would often spend their weekends supporting him at the tracks. “My husband drove a stock car and the kids enjoyed going racing -- watching him,” Yvonne said.
Richard and Yvonne divorced when Charlotte was very young, but Charlotte remained a daddy’s girl. So when Richard died in 2002 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, Yvonne said Charlotte took it particularly hard. “She took it the worst,” Yvonne recalled, “I mean, because she was really close to her dad.”
For 13-year-old Charlotte, the death of her father was almost more than she could bear. “After that, she kind of started drifting off,” Yvonne told Dateline. Charlotte’s grades began to slip and Yvonne said she noticed her daughter was changing.
Charlotte Trego
Some might call it typical teenage behavior, but Yvonne said she knew her daughter. The outgoing, loud child she once knew slowly began to lose her voice. She was suddenly quiet, reserved. Distant from her family. And, Yvonne said, “She kind of got messed up with the wrong crowd.”
At 16 years old, Charlotte gave birth to her first child, Chloe. The father was someone from Charlotte’s high school. Yvonne said the boy wanted to marry Charlotte, but Yvonne put a stop to it.
“It wasn’t proper,” Yvonne said. “You know, the situation he was in.” Yvonne told Dateline that the boy had a record with drugs and she wanted to keep drugs away from her home and family.
But for Charlotte, it was already too late. Yvonne said that by then, most of Charlotte’s friends were into drugs, and so was she…
35-year-old Charlotte Trego was last seen on May 3, 2014. She is one of several women who disappeared in the same area around the same time.
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