He was a specific person with a specific life — troubled, complicated, sometimes difficult, but a real human life with real family connections and real presence in a specific community.

He deserves to be remembered as more than the absent center of a famous fraud story.

He was thirteen years old.

He called his mother for a ride and was told to walk home.

Whatever happened to him next, he deserved better than what happened.

And the world deserves to know what it was.

That answer has not come.

Perhaps it still will.