Thank you. It's been 7 years for me, and time is pretty much the only thing that helps. Grief never goes away, it just changes and you learn to live with it. People don't tell you that the stages of grief are not linear and that they're neverending. Sometimes I still fall back in the "anger" and "depression". Whenever I meet another grieving family or, in this case, see them speaking on television, it takes me right back. I remember that year and all those firsts: first Christmas, first missed birthday, first first Halloween to get through without your child...When you see another member of that "club", it doesn't matter if you've never met the person. Doesn't matter if you share different politics or religious views or cultural differences- you just immediately jump into their shoes.
I hope this episode helps. I feel that they did this as a means to reach out to someone who knows something and hasn't yet come forward. I still believe that there MUST be evidence somewhere, something that would be invaluable to cementing the case. An article of clothing, a weapon, a souvenir...My hope is that the more national attention the case gets, the better chance that someone will come forward.
