PART 2: The Boy Who Brought Us a Photograph Opened a Door We Had Kept Closed for Nine Years 5-038

Search crews found no body.

For nearly two weeks, volunteers walked miles of riverbank.

I went every day.

So did Tommy.

So did half the club.

Eventually the authorities told us what nobody wanted to hear.

The current had been too strong.

The river had taken him.

We held a memorial.

We put his old firehouse photograph beside an empty coffin.