Ash Kelley

He was based in L.A.

and he asked for his help.

Now, Ken knew his nephew pretty well, and he knew that while Mark might have had a few beers now and again and, you know, maybe partied too hard every now and again, he wasn't a drug user and there wasn't anything else on that side of the border that he would have gotten caught up in.

Plus, his car was still on the American side of the border and all of his belongings were inside and they knew that he wouldn't have just abandoned all of that.

So in just a few hours, the missing persons case had escalated from a local matter to now a federal investigation.

Damn.

Yeah.

Fast.

By the time, which is honestly a good thing.

Good, yeah, that it got leveled this high.

Yeah.

By the time Ken Kilroy and his partner Oren Neck got in touch with George Govito, several calls had already been made to the Cameron County Sheriff's Department and a large team of law enforcement officials was assembled to search for Mark.

At the same time, Mark's father, Jim, was on his way to Brownsville to help in the search however he could.

Covito remembered later about Mark's father.

He came into the sheriff's office and he never left the sheriff's office.

He was there for 30 days.

Each single day, Saturdays and Sundays too, he begged me to help him look for his son.

Oh my God, that just destroys my heart.

I know.

That's a parent right there.