They live in the house of pain until they get the answer.
The family of the '80s locker fiancé who jumped out of a cruise ship on Sunday feels in total darkness that she is “lost” about her mysterious death following a cry of a match with her famous lover.
Kimberly Burch's mother and brother, 51, were not given any calls from authorities or cruise lines about her death. And she learned the tragedy from her longtime boyfriend, pussycat singer Tiam Down.
“If Taime hadn't called, they wouldn't even know that it had happened,” Kimberly's brother Kip Burch told the Post.
The company refused to discuss the situation even after her Alabama family contacted the Royal Caribbean.
“We kept calling, but they didn't tell us anything. The first woman I spoke to said we had to talk to her emergency contact, but she didn't tell us who the emergency contact was. She was kind of rude,” lamented Kip Burch.
There are no clues yet as to whether Kimberly, who has left her small town in Alabama Backwood to pursue a modeling career in Los Angeles, accidentally fell off the cabin balcony and chose to jump, or, as internet detectives have speculated, from the cabin balcony.
“We feel lost…we have no answers at all,” said her other brother, Keith Burch. “There's something going on with one of your loved ones and you don't even know what happened – that's awful.”
Birch, a police officer in the town of about 70 Moundville, southwest of Birmingham, said he ran out of law enforcement connections trying to find something about what happened to his sister.
He eventually boarded the sheriff at the sea port of Explorer in Miami, but they told him that a full investigation would not begin until the ship returned to the port on Sunday.
“I've seen it swirl around social media, but I didn't pay attention to it because no actual research has begun,” Kip Burch said.
Rumors of a foul play exploded after a revelation that Downe and Burch were caught up in a scream just before the incident and that she was drinking on a cruise. I told TMZ.
Kip revealed that Kimberly Burch looked happy in Los Angeles, never talked about mental health issues and was looking forward to a Caribbean vacation with celebrity Beau, whom he had been dating for about six years.
Both brothers had little knowledge of the sisters' relationship, but the band's biggest hit was the 1989 power ballad “House of Pain,” where the rocker didn't raise the red flag.
Courtesy of Keith Burch
Shortly after Kimberly Burch's tragic fall, law enforcement blocked the couple's shed and didn't return inside for a change of clothes as rescuers from the U.S. Coast Guard and royal Bahamian Defence Force searched her.
For now, all siblings can do is wait for the answer and support their mothers in the late '70s.
“Our mom raised us. She worked all the time. I think we were poor, but we didn't know we were poor because Mom had nothing and never let us go,” recalls Kip Burch.
“When Kim left and said she wanted to be a model, everyone else thought she was a nut, but Mom believed her. She knew she had bigger dreams than Alabama.”
