Blayne Alexander

Because of the secret, he has it all to lose.

It's like emotional torture.

This humble, loving family, they were going to get everything that we had.

By all appearances, it was just another piece of trash, strewn amongst the tires and tossed junk in these forgotten woods of rural Mississippi.

It was a most unlikely discovery, the final piece of a tragic puzzle that began two and a half years earlier.

When I didn't get that call, I told my husband something's going on.

This story is about outrage.

Where is Jay?

Where is Jay?

And determination.

You start stacking those pebbles, and all of a sudden, everything's starting to point in one direction.

It's about an extraordinary friendship.

You saw a family that was truly broken, that you felt so broken for them.

And a dormant truth awakened.

How did you find out what had happened?

I'm sorry.

But here, in the heart of the Bible Belt, this story is also about faith and that eternal hope that what's done in the darkness will always come to light.

Lord, I don't know what you want me to do at this point, but I'm going to keep saying Jay's coming home.

It was July 8th, 2022, when Taylor Carey texted her 20-year-old brother, Jay Lee, a recent graduate of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

She was just checking in, something she'd done daily since they were kids.