He was a victim of opportunity.

I'm so heartbroken that Sunnyside is closing. Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Ponder offered such a wonderful, wonderful opportunity to offer children general knowledge about history in Brownsville and the community.

An adult can be gone if they want to be gone. And unless there's blood found or any kind of thing out of the ordinary, there's nothing we can do.

We did the best we could with the information we had. There just wasn't much to go with.

I'd be sitting in my truck and I would feel someone rocking it, like you were sitting in a boat and you feel it rocking. I would get up and nobody would be there. In the morning, I saw little hand prints all over it in the dust.

At times you can hear voices at night, like mumbling. I would hear like ladies screaming and kids talking like at a distance. I would follow the voice. The closer I would get, it would keep moving. I would walk inside the gin and I'd hear it outside.