Many of the studio both and production.

Many of the bravest never are known and get no praise.

But that does not lessen their beauty.

Louisa May Alcott. Perhaps the most compelling and significant aspect of the Israel Keys case for me is that

of the many victims who at this point are missing persons, or both missing persons, and

John or Jane Doe's. The idea that someone you love could be lost in the world, that you're left to constantly

wonder what happened to them.

Are they hurt?

Are they alive?

Did they disappear of their own volition?

Did they meet with foul play?

Was there something I didn't know? Was there something I did?

Or something I could have done? It's a mystery, yes, but a mystery of the most heartbreaking kind.

There are so many stories of people spending their entire lives desperately trying to find their loved ones,

desperately trying to find answers.

With no peace, with little reconciliation.

It's perhaps the slowest and cruelest torture keys ever inflicted,

a torture that, for some, never ends.

In Namus alone, there are 78 still unidentified bodies that have been recovered since June of 2000,

when Keyes returned from his army deployment in Egypt.

And that's in Washington State alone.

78 stories with no resolve.

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