Rachel Barth

They saw us out there, you know, we videoed, they had people videoing us walking and like crawling through muck and crawling through trees and doing these things and talking about how we were friends with him since kindergarten and telling those stories about him.

Tyler was just incredibly unique as well.

He was this, you know, tall, athletic, white male from Lincoln, Nebraska, and he was

gay and he adopted two boys and he was a veteran and like he just had this really just distinct look to him and so and we kind of took advantage of that in a positive way because we had to market tyler to keep his story relevant because unfortunately those stories do go to the wayside because the next missing person comes up or the next you know whatever happens and you're no longer in the news story anymore i just offered

Victim blaming is so big.

And I think, you know, like in Tyler's case...

we wanted, everybody wanted somebody to blame, right?

Tyler wasn't here to blame.

So you wanted to blame somebody.

And I think that's what's really hard is because our brains want to rationalize what happened, right?

But I think that's hard is we all rationalize things and then rumors start.

And then that's when things spiral out of control.

And especially now with social media, all the TikTokers and the

conspiracy theorists get out there.

And that definitely happened in Tyler's case.

And it's really hard to stay ahead of that.

Oh, absolutely.

Yep.

Absolutely.

And they have kids that are in high school.