Jay Edelson

and as late as 11 p.m.

Thank you for your interest in Adam's story.

Yeah, so Adam was going to school.

He was a sophomore, and he was going to school in last October.

So, yeah, we weren't thinking anything of it because he was using chat.

Yeah, and there were some positives, right?

I mean, he had never taken a big interest, Megan, in grades and grade school, middle school.

A very smart kid, but almost the moment he went to online school, he started talking about being an FBI agent and then a doctor, and he went to a straight-A student.

He started seeming...

I guess what I noticed over those months was Adam used to be the kid that would always, you know, we'd talk sports, we'd talk fantasy football, girls, just light topics, like you might talk with your 14, 15-year-old son.

But in his final three, four months, he started talking politics, both sides of the aisle.

He was talking philosophy.

If I read this and that, I'd never, you know, it was like a kid you had to prepare for for a half hour if you're going to start chatting with him, which was a lot different.

But I took that as, you know, hey, progress.

He's a straight-A student.

He's seeming a little bit more serious.

But grades were great.

He was going to the gym every day.

But he was more isolated than he'd been, right?

He was online schooling, so he was kind of making his own hours.