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DENVER — Kristen Mittelman, a top executive at the forensics firm Othram, met Stacy Chapin at CrimeCon two years ago in Orlando.

"I honestly don’t know why I was there. I mean, I’d been invited to be there, but we were only 10 months out from losing Ethan," Chapin said at this year's CrimeCon conference in Denver, Colorado.

She had reluctantly gone to CrimeCon that year, she said. Then she was invited to a group meeting with other families whose children were the victims of high-profile crimes.

"What in the hell am I doing in this room?" Chapin asked herself.

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The families each told their stories. Mittelman surprised her at

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