In April of 2020, James Stoffer uploaded a video of the inside of his car to his YouTube channel,

Stoffer's Garage. This was a side project to his family's usual YouTube channel called the

Stauffer Life, where he and his wife, Micah, extensively documented their ever-growing family. But all of that was about to

change with James' new upload. Within minutes of it going live, comments started flooding in,

not about what was in the video, though, but what was missing from it. See, in the backseat of James's car were car seats for his four children.

They were neatly snapped in place in the second and third rows of his family-sized SUV.

Except one of the car seats was very obviously missing, the one that belonged to his four-year-old son, who I'll call

H. Where is H's car seat? Why is his the only car seat missing? comments read. People were

commenting so fast, it was hard to catch them all. But fans noticed that any comments referring

to the missing car seat started disappearing.

They were being intentionally erased by someone on the other side.

Though, for fans that had watched closely as the family had recorded and uploaded every

milestone, growth spurt, accomplishment, and transition in their life, they felt like this

unaddressed gap in the Stauffer's back seat was actually indicative of something the family

didn't want them to know. I mean, they had watched weekly videos of H. integrating in the

Stoffer's life. He was a huge part of their content.

So where was his car seat?

The truth of the matter was the four-year-old's car seat was missing

because there was no longer a four-year-old that would need it.

H was not a part of the Stauffer family anymore.

And the story of what happened to him was much more confusing and heartbreaking than anyone expected. Within the next few months, that

missing car seat would go on to make headlines, ones that read, why did these YouTubers give away their son?

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