They had clung to the smallest signs of hope: a possible sighting, a vague tip, a rumor that he might have simply wandered off confused. Instead, investigators were led to a lonely stretch of land far from his usual paths, where the ground itself seemed to betray a secret. Beneath that disturbed soil, they uncovered what his family had dreaded yet needed to know: he was no longer missing. He was gone.Now grief is colliding with suspicion. The way his body was concealed has transformed a missing-person search into a potential homicide investigation. Detectives are retracing his final steps, interviewing everyone who crossed his path, and combing through surveillance in search of the moment his fate changed. For his loved ones, closure is complicated; answers may still be distant, but silence is no longer possible. Someone, somewhere, knows what happened.
