Ash Kelley

So if something could potentially help...

And especially I would, as a parent, I would do fucking anything.

Absolutely.

Nothing would be off the table.

Absolutely.

So Willie Cannon of the U.S.

Customs Service said, it's kind of an unusual situation because there's really nothing to go on.

Yeah.

So when Brad was unable to come up with anything new, they moved on to Bill Huddleston.

And while he was under hypnosis, he described seeing Mark walking near a, quote, Hispanic man with a cut on his cheek right before he disappeared.

Which is like pretty to have the cut on the cheek to go on.

That's a little more than just your typical description of somebody, you know.

So Bill said he didn't recall Mark talking to the man.

But when he looked back, he said he saw the strange man motion towards Mark.

Okay.

Interesting, right?

Yeah.

So when more than a week passed and there was still no sign of Mark, the Covers were getting desperate and they turned to another outlet for help that was kind of a newer outlet.

Just one year earlier, the TV program America's Most Wanted made its debut, which like...

wow isn't that crazy you just feel like that's always been a thing even though you know it's not in my life it always has been yeah and pretty much your life too like yeah for most of our most of your life and all of mine it has yeah so and the thing was it had debuted a year earlier before this case and it had already led to the capture of many violent criminals yeah so the producers of america's most wanted agreed to feature the story on the program and they immediately traveled out to brownsville to record a recreation um