Summary
Daniel Yuen, a 16 year old boy from New Jersey, is sent across the country to a program for “troubled teens” in the California mountains and days later disappears.
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| 0:00.0 | Back in 2004, Lisa and Wayne Ewan Ewan |
| 0:06.2 | were at their home in Edison, New Jersey. |
| 0:09.1 | It was a cold Friday night, and they were waiting for their son to call. |
| 0:14.6 | When the phone finally rang, Lisa jumped to pick it up. |
| 0:19.0 | That Friday, we talked, and right away, Daniel, Daniel was really upset. |
| 0:25.7 | Over the past year, their 16-year-old son had become a shell of his former self. |
| 0:30.8 | He'd always been a loving son. He went on fishing trips with his dad. |
| 0:34.3 | They built computers together. He was protective in caring of his younger sister. |
| 0:39.0 | Well, when Daniel was in elementary school, in middle school, he's fine. He never |
| 0:46.6 | get into a fight for any people. He never got in any trouble. But lately, he'd become sullen |
| 0:53.8 | and withdrawn. Some days, he'd become sullen and withdrawn. |
| 0:55.4 | Some days, he even refused to get out of bed. |
| 0:58.5 | And now, Daniel was calling from the other side of the country, |
| 1:02.0 | warning his parents that they made a mistake. |
| 1:05.7 | You don't even know this is a really bad school. |
| 1:08.0 | I don't want to stay. |
| 1:08.9 | He was not a best school. This is a bad school. I don't want to stay. He was going to be a good school. Really bad school. |
| 1:11.5 | This is a bad school. |
| 1:13.9 | Lisa says Daniel whispered these words, |
| 1:16.0 | as if someone was listening in to his call. |
| 1:20.1 | So we say that now, Daniel, it's not true. |
| 1:22.7 | You know, when we have... |
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