I believe that he had an old soul, beautiful soul.

I know he's my son, but he was the kindest person I've ever met in my life.

He was definitely God's gift to me.

A dramatic development in the case of a beloved teenage boy who disappeared.

I have to report I found nothing.

They saw his truck with caution tape around it.

The police told my father that he was gone.

He said, are you sure?

Like, what are you talking about?

Grieving, alongside his family, his girlfriend.

She sent messages of condolences.

We all need to be strong together.

She gave me a lot of support just there for me when I needed her.

But was there something about these two that no one knew?

What are you seeing?

A series of messages.

I had to read them a couple of times to really sort of take it all in.

Utterly shocking.

A trail of text messages leading to the darkest of discoveries. Keeping all the

lies straight is difficult. She did it masterfully. That's not normal. I closed my eyes and I said

this is not real. Now a new twist in a story every parent needs to see. We need to know what's

going on our kids' lives because it can be very scary when we don't.

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