On a certain day in 1992, April was at an event by Lake Hartwell. They were on a boat and decided to indulge in a barbecue. “There were two boys fishing there and – I don’t want to accuse anyone – but when we got back, I immediately realized that my purse was gone,” April says.
“The worst part was that I had pictures of my son in the bag,” the woman says. When Ben and Brodie found her bag, her son was already 26. In the photos he was just 15 months old. Her bag also held the copies of photos that she had made by a professional photographer. “The photos now have water damage, but you can still see him clearly,” she says with tears in her eyes.