Random social profiles. Then he added the town name, and a local news archive came up. The headline stopped him cold. Local Couple Killed in Highway Crash; Son Survives. He read the short article twice.
Daniel and Mara Whitaker had died nearly eighteen years earlier after their car lost control on a wet road. Their six-year-old son, Jamie, had survived. Near the bottom, a follow-up update mentioned that the boy—James Whitaker—had been placed in temporary care because no immediate family could be located.