A LOVE STORY LIKE NO OTHER...
The year was 1982, and Jarek and Dianne were both still in high school when they fell in love.
The kind of love so precious and rare that few will ever experience in their lifetime.
This was not some meaningless tryst during a brief courtship, or a settlement for a lifetime of security.
This was the real deal, and they both knew it.
Days turned into months, and months into endless infatuation—as they spent many a night sneaking out in defiance—before
an elopement plan to leave their families and friends for the rest of their lives was born. But when, on the eve of their
greatest adventure, Dianne tragically died, both of their worlds ended. Distraught and in shock, Jarek would spend decades
grieving over the horror that changed their lives forever.
But that is only half the story, because unlike a Hollywood movie with a poetic ending, life does not always work the same in reality.
When he finally returned to Kalispell, Montana to explain the circumstances of the accident, he was sure the Flathead County authorities
would re-evaluate the case, see it for what it was, and do the right thing—just
as the Canadian authorities did.
But they were not that kind of people.
And therefore, what this story tells is not only the details of how the ardent couple met, fell in love, concocted their elopement, and eventually
executed the perilous plan, but also what happened twenty-four years later when Jarek returned to Montana to face the presumptuous
Flathead County authorities.
A “Romeo and Juliet” story like no other, it is a tale of blind teenage love and the people who tried to turn their innocent elopement tragedy
into a crime.
Read their story,
look at the evidence, and judge for yourself.