Annie Elise

But I want to stick with the missing boat.

So for the time being, we're going to stick with the boating incident.

The search and rescue teams kept looking for both Linda and Nathan while also keeping the information that they had learned from Valerie just in the back of their minds.

And for days, Nathan, Linda, and their boat were nowhere to be found.

And one source even said that they had searched an area of water that was roughly two times the size of the state of Connecticut.

So they had searched almost everywhere.

And it was very likely that at this point, the boat had malfunctioned, that maybe it had been taken out to sea, that maybe it capsized something.

And if that had happened, they assumed that more than likely Linda and Nathan had passed away and that whatever family drama had been happening in their lives was basically just kind of boiling to the surface in the midst of all of this chaos.

So after five days of searching, the Coast Guard made the difficult decision to end the search.

They had done all that they could do, but the belief was that both of the people that they were looking for were no longer alive.

Linda and Nathan's family had been through an incredible amount of grief and loss in so little time, from the head of their family being brutally murdered in his own home to now their sister and nephew going missing at sea, all in less than three years.

That is a lot of turmoil for a family to take on.

And not for nothing, but it's enough to make you believe in all of the stuff about somebody putting a hex or a curse on your family or something.

Like one bad thing happening after another.

And what's that expression?

Like it comes in waves of three?

Something like that?

So after the family was told the devastating news that the search was off and that they weren't going to find Linda or Nathan...

The family had no other choice but to begin mourning them, grieving them, and trying to move forward.

However, they never got the opportunity to say goodbye, so it was very likely that they would never receive any type of closure.