In 2022, Marie Claire writer Katya Cengel profiled the mothers of the "Bakersfield 3": a trio of young people who disappeared or were murdered in the space of weeks in the spring of 2018.
Diane “Di” Byrne’s son James Kulstad, 38, was shot to death; Cheryl Holsonbake’s son Micah Holsonbake, 34, went missing and was later confirmed to have been murdered; and Jane Parrent’s daughter Baylee Parrent Despot has been missing since April 2018. She was 20 at the time of her disappearance.
