The last time that Carmen Villagómez saw her daughter, 33-year-old Katherine “Kathy” Arias, was when she walked out of their Red Bank, New Jersey home with a blue duffel bag.
It was around 8 p.m. on June 21, 2022. “I assumed then that she was going to the laundromat to wash her clothes,” Carmen told Dateline, with whom she spoke in Spanish.
Kathy’s stepfather, Kenny DeGroot, got home around 11 p.m. that night. He told Dateline that when he arrived and asked where Kathy was, Carmen told him she thought Kathy may have been downstairs. “And I said, ‘She’s not down there,’” he remembered…