Blayne Alexander

And it gets hard for them.

They weren't able to find Jay, right, or bring his remains home.

And so we saw this kind of back and forth where they were really leaning on each other through the course of this.

And I have to say, one thing that's interesting that didn't make it into our story, Chief McCutcheon had actually met Jay Lee at one point.

about six months before he disappeared.

Yes.

He told me that there was this kind of round table that they had for community leaders.

And Jay was doing an internship at Child Protective Services there in Oxford.

So Jay was part of this meeting.

And he comes in, he sits down, and the chief said immediately his personality was just on display.

He was like, I'm Jay Lee.

Who are you?

Okay, great.

I mean, just talking to people like this is what we're going to do for the kids.

And he said that left a mark on him.

And so then when the missing persons case came in, he said, oh my God, like,

I know this kid.

I remember him.

And so you put all these things together.

And yes, it was it was certainly something that was emotional.