By Chuck Hustmyre
March 3, 2006
LIVINGSTON, Mont. (Crime Library) — Not so many miles from Livingston, Montana, and not too far below ground in Yellowstone National Park, ancient pools of molten rock are at this very moment, seething, raising the ground in some places, creating and recreating explosive geysers in others. Someday, scientists warn, it will burst to the surface with almost unfathomable fury, though no one knows for sure when.
Such hidden volatility is in the nature of things in that part of Montana. It's true of the rocks, and perhaps, it is also true of the people.
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| Heather Brianna Wilkins |
That certainly seems to the case among those closest to Heather Brianna Wilkins, a missing teen, who according to several people close to her, was raised in a family that like the great Yellowstone has long been seething below the surface.
Heather Brianna Wilkins' mother, Cheryl "Chera" Walsh has been interviewed four times by Crime Library, the last time in a wide ranging 23-minute interview, initiated by her yesterday morning.
During the course of those interviews, totaling some three and half hours, Ms. Walsh said little that was directly related to her daughter's disappearance. Most of her comments centered on Brianna's boyfriend, 16-year-old Montana Standish, who has been staying with Ms. Walsh since Brianna disappeared on Jan. 11. Another frequent topic of conversation has been a book that Ms. Walsh has recommended. That book, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle, Ms. Walsh suspects, may have had something to do with Brianna's disappearance.
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| Author Eckhart Tolle |
According to Ms. Walsh, Brianna spent eight hours listening to an audio version of Tolle's book the week before she vanished. During an interview on Feb. 22, Ms. Walsh described the effect the book had on her daughter: "That's what transformed her life that last week — those tapes, that book."
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