The documentary captures this, the journalism circles it, the true crime coverage returns to it again and again.

The case remains compelling because it remains incomplete.

The basketball court in San Antonio is still there.

The route home is still a mile and a half.

The night of June 13, 1994 is still a night that no one has fully accounted for.

And Nicholas Barclay — whoever he was, whatever happened to him — is still gone.

The boy who walked home and never arrived.

The boy who came back was not the boy who left.