Rachel Barth

He was found about 1,000 yards from his house, and so that was really tough to deal with.

Sure.

So Tyler went missing on a Friday night and it was kind of that next day when most of us had found out, hey, like he didn't come home.

He's not answering his phone.

We weren't exactly sure where he went and he left on foot.

And so that was hard because we weren't tracking a vehicle.

We were tracking him.

And so really that weekend right away, one of the first things we did was started creating missing persons posters.

I pulled a picture off of his Facebook page.

I grabbed details of what I knew, how tall he was, roughly his, you know, weight and some of his tattoo photos that I had or friends I'd had of him and just put details on there where he was last seen, what we think he was doing.

And we started flyering neighborhoods and knocking on doors and

asking random people if we could see their ring doorbells.

We created a Facebook page.

And I would say within days, I mean, we were up to 10, 15, 20,000 people.

And that caught the attention of the news media pretty quickly.

And so then we were able to mobilize and start creating search parties for him.

Yeah, I mean, Tyler was known as far as like, you know, people knew him in the community.

But Lincoln's about 350,000 people.

But we all grew up in a small town just outside of Lincoln and Bennett, Nebraska, which is where most of Tyler's family lives.

Tyler lived on kind of the outskirts.