By Philip Rosenbaum
New York (CNN) – Before she was laid to rest in 1995 in a cemetery in Clinton, Kentucky, 77-year-old Anna Laura King bought a plot next to her own.
The burial space, which remains empty, is reserved for her granddaughter, Kimberly King, who disappeared 30 years ago. She was 12.
“That’s all I can hope for that before I die I get to see her at least placed there,” said Kathie Lucas, one of Kimberly’s two sisters.