“And Annette would later say that one officer told her that as an adult, Brandon had quote the right to be missing. But Annette knows her son better than the police do. And as she put it, I'm his mother and I know something was horribly wrong.”

“I think that sometimes the word runaway makes people stop looking at a situation as seriously as they should. There's this assumption that the teenager probably just got mad at their parents, wanted some freedom, was being rebellious, or decided they didn't want to follow the rules anymore.”

“that's the biggest mistake I think that's that's the most upsetting thing about all of this is that they could have rescued them they easily could have and they could still be here today”

“the thing is though is that race organizers recommend you do this route you know in your own time like a dozen times before you attempt the race Michael didn't he didn't know the route and he had never been up this man before”

“In my opinion, the chances of that happening are less likely than the possibility that Summer Wells wandered off, became lost, had some kind of an accident, or eventually just succumbed to the rugged Tennessee environment that she loves so much.”

“I accept that it was an accidental drowning.”