Thrill Killer: The Murder of Hunter Smith | Murdered at First Sight | Forensic Files

[Applause] my favorite photo of them this one yeah I that's where he started a skater boy
phase at yeah well he stole your clothes a l too well just my hat no that's Hunter that's how I think of
him as in his long hair skater Hunter Smith was a decent kid he had a child at home uh he was trying to
do was necessary to go earn money to support his child to be a responsible parent we were mother and son but we
were more like best friends you really don't know true love until you've had your first
grandchild once we found out that he was hitchhiking to Nebraska we knew that he
was starting his life over I was a little angered with him so I thought what on Earth are you doing
Hunter on her about October 30th of 2017 uh husband and wife were deer hunting I believe on opening day of deer
season they looked in a small Ravine and saw what appeared to be a human corpse call came in as somebody had
found the remains of a body I didn't even have to have them say it I knew I started crying that that was my
baby that someone did something did something to my baby my baby was no longer part of this
Earth there was nothing like the scream of a mother After figuring that she's lost a
child you're missing a part of you basically you know I'm missing part of my heart those three took a piece of me
when they took my [Music] son baby Hunter we kept him dressed up in the cutest little things that was his first
Halloween yeah it was his first Halloween yeah he was not happy with that hat no he was not happy with that
hat my chunky monkey look I swear that boy did not grow any hair for the first year of his life no
he had hair it just wasn't there [Music] yeah it was me and him he was my little protector and I was
his little [Music] protector being a grandma it was quite a bit different than having your own
children um I got to spoil him and uh send him back home he would make funny voices he would
start singing you know one of my favorite songs and me changing the words he had a sense of humor on him we all
know it if was what I would call my daredo I don't know how many times he would climb up on stuff and of course he
would fall down and he'd laugh thought it was funny he was always a little jokester he
was always smiling having [Music] fun I think this was a secondary hat that his uncle Johnny had and he
said why he says do you think your nephew would like this and I was like H maybe maybe I think this is his most
treasured hat yeah that was his most treasured possession when Hunter wrapped it was
you know it was from the top of his head he never had anything memorized I was very proud when he performed I knew he
was good he had been offered a couple times to go into the studio and record but they
wanted a down payment and you know I was a single mom so we could never you know
afford to the studio time for him we used to talk about life in general his dreams his quick wit and
that silly smile of his oh and he I mean that smile of his could knock the socks off of any
girl he was the lady's man even even from being little uh he went to uh prek out here and he would get off you know
get on the bus and the girls would be going sit with me Hunter sit with me Hunter and he'd be going uh which one of
you did I sit with yesterday okay I'll sit with you he was always the ladies man he you
know I never knew him to not have a girlo friend as he called him he was kind of a handful when he was
a teenager we would get into some small disagreements you know about the company
that he hung with he was a little troublemaker he'd been on youth probation three four times
from the time he was 12 till he was 18 Hunter was the typical laidback skater boy he had the long blonde hair um he
had big feet so he had to use a long board he started smoking weed with his friends probably when he was like 14 or
15 he was just that that laidback kind of go with the flow teenager I thought he was going down the
wrong path but a lot of the stuff that he'd gotten on probation for I knew he hadn't
done when Hunter found out he was going to be a father he was excited but he was
also [Music] scared it was a light bulb in his brain that was like you know hey you know I I
don't have a high school education I don't have a job I'm living you know either with my with my mom or I'm living
with my girlfriend's Grandma I have to step up and kind of grow up and I saw him do that quite
quickly I looked at him and I said it's time for you to man up take care of your
[Music] responsibilities and do the right thing said you don't have to marry her
but your child should be taken care of Hunter was well- loved by his family he had a young daughter he had a
long-term relationship with a woman he was beloved by his parents so it seemed that he was pretty close and had a lot
of people around him that truly loved [Music] him him and his girlfriend were fighting
so hard that day that I had when I came in with my mom I had to look at both of them and go either you know straighten
up or get out and they you know they said okay we're leaving honor was such a bullhead there
was no way that we could stop him at that time he had his mindset and he was had
one Mission and one Mission only that was sleep and they walked out my last words
to him was I love you and his last words to me were [ __ ] you it still Burns because as he was
getting into the vehicle to leave I looked at him and I said I love you Hunter and his last words to me was I'm
dead to you do you hear me I am dead to you and I looked at him and I says watch what you wish
for and they pulled away [Music] hon her about October 30th of 2017 uh husband and wife were deer
hunting I believe on opening day of deer season they went to a remote area in Hawaii County and while
accessing uh one of the roadways there they looked in a small Ravine and saw what appeared to be a human corpse and
they promptly contacted law enforcement I got a call on a Saturday night saying that there were remains
found at that point in time I don't think anyone had inspected the remains close enough to
know why they were there or how they ended up there I was in the mountains patrolling when I received a call that
some Hunters had found a remains of a body out in the middle of the desert the weather was uh on that day was cloudy
kind of Co cool went the wind was blowing when I first saw the remains there I knew it had been there for a
while and not seeing any clothes on it it was I thought to myself it's going to be kind of hard to find out who this
person was cuz we hadn't had any missing person's report in this area [Music] when iot the call what's going through
my mind was somebody came out and committed suicide again we get a lot of suicides out in this
way one of the first things that police are trained to do as soon as they find a
body is to protect the crime scene make sure evidence isn't taken in or out that
was impossible here it was the desert where the body had been there for a long time uh animals had been through the
scene maybe even people had been through the scene and just assumed it was an animal that was there not a person so
there's so many Clues and evidence that maybe could have tied the crime those were all long gone by the time the
police came when we was doing a search we located some brass shells from a 223 rifle and we could see where somebody
put bullet holes on a large Rock when we finally got to the location where the body was I could see what was left of
the remains of a skeleton in a dry creek bed the body was located in this dry Ravine here the the weeds weren't here
pretty well washed out clear and it was well decomposed the body was naked there
was no skin left on it no ID around it no shoes or anything like that and the skull had a hole in in it so we figured
that was a homicide the fact that there was no weapon right at the body was Major
alarming because if somebody uh commits suicide by shooting themselves in all probability that weapon's going to be
there unless there's some foul play or somebody comes and discovers it later we backed off and then called the
Ido state police crime lab to come out and take care of [Music] it when I arrived on scene we identified
possible items of evidence or items that would be important we also called out forensic
Services who also help process crime scenes um and then also we had the local corner with
us I think there was evidence of other weapons haven't been fired in that location and I would say that at the
crime scene or the location of the body the greatest evidence was the human remains and that was the focus of the
autopsy [Music] he had just got into a fight with his girlfriend he was going to be moving to
Nebraska I thought he was starting his life over I thought maybe he had thought that organ wasn't the place for
him that he was trying to get himself ready to start over Hunter been gone 6 weeks his girlfriend's mother had called
me up asked me if the police department Department had gotten a hold of me and I said
no and she said well some chick had called the police department was looking for
Hunter and so she gave me the name and I gave it to Raquel and Raquel had gotten
on the computer cuz she knows how to get a hold of people I was messaging his as I quote
her his wife I don't think they were ever legally married but I was messaging them have
you heard from Hunter you know his friend in Nebraska I was messaging her um please tell me you're kidding me that
Hunter's there you guys are just playing a joke on me in my mind he wouldn't have been just
hitchhiking maybe he was hitchhiking with with truckers I didn't see him being the type to hitchhike with
strangers he was the type to trust in people but I didn't think he was that trusting with strangers to get
in a car with them this is the original missing person's photo that went out uh went out
on Facebook and it kind of just gives some basic information description of him a couple of photos approximate time
that he left where he was going the fact that his his grandmother and mother hadn't hadn't heard from him a little
bit but it was they were a little unsure when he when he left but they also described some of the tattoos that he
has I was the one that made his missing person's poster I started sending it on all my friends and having them send it I
was um contacting any Police Department Facebook that I could find in Oregon sending his missing person's
poster I was scouring the internet just trying to find something or someone that would be
Hunter Panic kind of sat in so I went to the police department and of course the
police knew me very well as Hunter's grandmother deep in my heart it's a mother's you know something's wrong no
matter if you actually know it or not it's somewhere in your body you know that that flesh and blood that you gave
birth to there's something wrong with it I had to get heather to go over to the police department to file the
missing person report and of course the police going well he's a teenager he'll be
back when young people disappear it's hard I have kids too so anybody's going to be hurt when young people go missing
all the time and they're not found or or it takes weeks to find them that's about the time I put my fist
on the counter banged it hard looked at the police officer and said look he was supposed to be going to Nebraska and
that was 6 weeks ago he is missing time to do something I'm sitting there thinking it
happens to other families not mine just couldn't wub my head around that my son was missing
[Music] identifying remains after a body has been left there is extremely challenging
there has been research done to try to establish you know time of death how long the body has been there for and
even to reconstruct the facial features to try to identify a person from their remains but all of that is extremely
difficult requires a lot of Science and expertise and if not done right they may
never identify the body ISP C lab showed up the following morning they had several people there
one person flew a drone to take overhead photos of everything and then they had other people that started taking
measurements and a lot of photographs of the surrounding area and then collecting
all the shell case scenes and anything they find that looked halfway suspicious the investigation show that
the murder occurred in June of 2017 and so you have the month of June all all of
July all of August all of September and most of the month of October so the very end of October was
when the body was first discovered with the condition out here in the desert the body was pretty well
decomposed we couldn't get no fingerprints um the skull was intact so they were going to be looking for dental
records on it because we couldn't find no ID around the ground it been there for a while it
rained it snowed it was in a cck bed so water had run through during the springtime so there wasn't a lot of
evidence left there to collect law enforcement tried to put this together as best they could even
recognizing that there was a lot of time that had elapsed trying to find ID on a body like
this uh with it being decomposed you're going to have dental records and then of
course you check the database for the uh surrounding areas for anybody missing that fits that body
description prior to October 30th of 2017 uh there was simply a report that a young man who lived in Oregon has was
headed to uh South Dakota or one of those of Midwestern states who search for work and that he went missing so it
was unknown where he was exactly what had occurred with him Hunter's family had reported him
missing after they lost all contact with him while he was on this journey that he
was on um and they became increasingly worried because they hadn't had any even just a call or any type of contact with
him uh and then the remains were found in Idaho and it seemed like their worst fear was coming
true as we were looking at the remains in the autopsy from what I recall there were two noticeable um tattoos there was
one on on a for for arm that uh said the words lost there was also a colorful tattoo around the shoulder that we
couldn't quite tell what it was we could just see the colors from it we got some
confirmation that there was a gunshot wound um there wasn't a lot else from the autopsy this autopsy is carried out and
the police find out that the deceased died from a gunshot wound to the head but that's not really that
helpful because it doesn't give us any more information no further evidence to follow and if the police cannot identify
a body then what else can they do they can't move forward with the case the case will be left open and if it was a
homicide then that literally means that somebody has got away with murder when we made the missing person's
report and the 4 months between that and when they found the body I was hoping and looking for what could be happening
trying to to block out the other side that you know something bad happened to him at the point in time that we
suspected that it may have been a homicide the local news had picked it up and put it out that remains had been
found out in the desert and we actually received a call from someone who who we had previously worked with a little bit
but now lived out of state he had heard a story about a man named Keith Raby which involved Keith Raby being with
Nicholas Vandenberg in Montana Reed picking up a hitchhiker and then ultimately shooting him at the
end of that based on the information that we received about the rumors going around it seems like they all came from
Keith Raby as far as I understand when he would get intoxicated um he would feel very bad
about what had happened and uh and he would tell people and that's how the the rumors around aaii County got started
Keith Raby had a criminal history he had spent some time in jail most of his crimes were things like theft or
marijuana possession um I don't believe he had any violent criminal history Montana Reed was Nicholas
vandenberg's girlfriend she was living with Nicholas vanderberg at the time of the homicide most of the people we spoke
to didn't really have a lot of negative things to say about um Nicholas vanderberg Montana Reed or Keith Raby
Nicholas Vandenberg was I think fairly respected um by the people he worked uh for and with and um and the local people
in the community at the start of their investigation police had no leads to go upon and out of the blue they receed an
anonymous call that leads them to vanderberg Reed and Raby and while this may not be a very promising lead because
there's no real supporting evidence to corroborate this at least it was something that broke open the case and
gave them something to look into during the course of the investigation during one of the
interviews one of the witnesses had brought up that they had seen hundred on a missing person's flyer that had been
texted around between uh some of the people involved we believed him to be the victim of the case we wanted to
confirm it using DNA from his mother when I got the call from the police department stating that they'd
found remains in Idaho I didn't know what to really think [Music] said no that can't be that can't be my
grandson um but they wanted to have a DNA test I'm sitting there by myself after the
call and um I'm thinking they know it's got to be him because of the tattoos that was the day that my mother and
sister came to came to my work again and told me that they had found a body in Idaho and
they thought it was hunters and I needed to go give a DNA test and you know in the back of my head I'm thinking oh no
no not my baby there was nothing like the scream of a mother After figuring that she's
lost a child and all I could do was just hold her and tell her it's okay all they want to do is just make
sure that it's not Hunter but she kept saying it's him I know it's him [Music] it was one of the worst feelings in the
world to see the pain in my sister's eyes and to think of my little buddy that might not be in this world but I'm
always the one that's trying to look on the better side of things so I was trying to tell her they think it's him
we're not sure it's him so give them the DNA sample prove them wrong prove them that it's not
Hunter I was always The Optimist we asked the local police in Oregon to collect it from her um it's
just a swab inside the cheek um on both sides and and that collects enough DNA to run as a comparison against Hunter
Smith's remains while we were waiting for the DNA evidence it was hard my sister is
mourning she knows something's going on I'm seeing my dad who's us usually quiet he's a little he's a gentle giant
but he's withdrawing more than usual my my mom is she's she's just as bad as me she's trying to be The
Optimist but I can see in her eyes the [Music] pain it was a rough two weeks I just couldn't wrap my head
around that actually it was so I had to Y give the DNA test and that was the longest two weeks of my life waiting for
those DNA test results to come back approximately a month and a half after the crime we were notified that
the DNA did match but based on his tattoos and information we had um received in interviews uh we were we
were fairly certain that it was Hunter Smith the day that the DNA results were confirmed her dad and I were at home we
got the telephone call I told my husband that it was Hunter and um I says I got to let Heather know he
just says I don't know how we're going to tell her you know how do we tell her I didn't even have to have them say
it I knew I started crying that that was my baby that someone did something did something to my baby my baby was no
longer part of this Earth it's like somebody reaching in and ripping your heart out and throwing it
on the ground and doing a dance it's got to be the most gut-wrenching heartbreaking thing to watch your
child suffer it was like a dark cloud came we were we were all trying to be supportive
and brave now with the brave face on we still do it you know we try to live one day at a
[Music] time three subjects were ultimately identified as Nicholas Vandenburg Willie
Keith Raby and Montana Reed [Music] as far as we understand Hunter Smith was hitchhiking uh through Idaho uh from
Oregon he was on his way to Nebraska coming through the boisey area Nicholas Vandenberg picked him up
and took him uh down to his house he fed him they spent the evening together in the meantime there was this
kind of side text conversation between Nicholas Vandenberg Keith rabi and Montana Reed um where they kind of use
coted language to talk about potentially maybe shooting this hitchhiker they asked Hunter Smith if he
wanted to go out shooting and he did and they took him out in the desert there's nothing around and they let him
shoot one of their guns it goes without saying that inviting somebody who you met uh to go
shooting and then to kill them is extremely unusual and shocking Behavior but it seems the motivation in this case
was more a pathological sense of thrill seeking uh they were not able to get any
type of thrill out of just you know going out and shooting their automatic weapons in the desert uh they had to
really up the Annie and wanted to commit murder there was nothing in their appearance that would cause the average
person to conclude upon simply looking at them that they were involved in a homicide the investigation showed that
there were uh two weapons involved after the body was discovered I believe all the guns belong
to to Nicholas vanber they let Hunter shoot one of the guns and after he shot all the bullets in the gun and turned
around Nicholas vanderberg shot him in the in the abdomen somewhere from our interviews with Keith
rabby and Montana Reed what appears happened is Hunter Smith pled with Nicholas Vandenberg to to not kill him
to not shoot him anymore more he let the kid get out and shoot at the Rock and stuff and then once his
bullets were all gone that's when Nick got out and he raised his gun up and I heard one shot go
off the kid screamed and said something like why I have a kid as he was on the ground having
already been shot and bleeding someone and then Nicholas Vandenberg uh watched him for a minute
um be in pain and then went up and shot him in the head Keith got out and helped him
undress him then they drag him half into the ditch Montana Reed vly denied any involvement any knowledge even of the
plan of killing Hunter but that contradict the text messages she clearly did know what was going
on it was um ascertained that ultimately uh what the investigation showed was that the defendants Mr vanenburg and Mr
Raby were uh had conspired and involved in a a plan to locate an individual and ultimately
cause his demise Nicholas vanderberg when he first arrived at the police station he seemed
calm I picked him up on the interstate the Chevron The Last Exit in boisey uh for g Road yeah okay I picked him up
probably 300 yards from the exit walking on the interstate with his th out coming
towards Mountain Home coming towards Mountain home okay and he told me he was heading toward
Nebraska he came home with me had dinner I wasn't comfortable with him staying the night he asked if he could
because he didn't have a place to stay I took him to the sh on Mountain home and
dropped him off we confronted him and told him we know that the first part was true but that um
that he wasn't telling us the truth about the second part but we were out there shooting
rabbits drinking that kind of stuff F back in there and we got out he had said he wanted to
shoot and uh he shot at a rock and he just started shooting at it and I was like don't shoot at the Rock like
ricochets happened and he said it'll be okay and he turned around and I was standing just outside
the driver's door and he turned around and I heard the gun click and I reacted what' you do I shot him would
you shoot uh once in the below the rib cage and then in the face from our interviews with Montana
Reed what appears happened is Hunter Smith had finished shooting the all the bullets that in the gun that he was
holding he was saying how he let the kid shoot all the bullets so that he couldn't shoot back
at Nick he was hitch shaking in Idaho and venberg picked him up took him home and fed him let him
take a shower got him stoned and then decided that they were going to go hunting rabbits which still does not
make sense to me because Hunter knew better than to be off with guns with somebody he didn't even know I wish I
would have been the little voice in his head going no this doesn't seem right let's just uh go that
way we executed a search warrant on Nicholas vandenberg's property based on the story we had heard we were hoping to
to perhaps find Hunter Smith driver's license or other evidence the clothes or some physical evidence we didn't find
either of those things when we were there what did you do with all this stuff bur why did you bur it well I mean
that's just one more thing you know we were able to find the shell casings found um at the scene of the crime it
appeared to be that this was uh essentially in in common vernacular Thrill Kill that uh it was done for
the thrill of taking another life without cause or justification the community around this
area is very close-knit and they they were pretty shocked that this would happen with some of their local
people the first question that comes to mind is a is a large question mark why what would possibly motivate you to
select an innocent non-suspect individual and take him out to a remote place and kill him in that fashion where
he had done absolutely nothing to any of them and absolutely nothing to deserve it how
senseless how thoughtless how heartless it was how disgusting despicable it was what would ever motivate a person to do
such a thing [Music] [Music] I feel like since losing Hunter I've kind of withdrew into myself more
I'm more cautious with people that I don't know I just miss talking to him getting
my hugs being told that he loved me and I told I love him I still talk to him in the
morning sit on the front porch losing Hunters impacted our family in a way where we're we're closer than
we were we're more telling each other we love each other when we leave we're more
tight-nit I feel since Hunter has passed away I still even have conversations with him via Facebook every once in a
while i t you know type out a message I know I'm not going to get one [Music] back whenever we see a case of a group
murder where one person or multiple participate um any one of them could have done something to intervene they
could have you know pulled the gun out of his hand pushed him to the ground told police if they knew he was planning
to commit this crime in many states that means they're all just as guilty Nicholas vanderberg was charged with
first-degree murder while Willie Raby and Montana Reid were both charged with conspiracy to commit first scream
murder I can identify who those persons are just by looking their uh photos that
is Nicholas vanenburg Willie Keith Raby and Montana Reid and those were faces that I became
um very um familiar with during the course of the prosecution so he of these individuals
were young the oldest being know Raby 34 years of age and vanderberg was 28 my impression with respect to Mr
vanenburg and his contact with police was that perhaps he felt that he could maybe talk
his way out of the offense and maybe Point blame on someone else the impression I had from the
investigation was that he felt that he would be the more believable between him and perhaps Mr Raby and that he could
explain his involvement and maybe implicate someone other than himself as far as Keith rabi and Montana
Reed go um as per Idaho Co they helped participate to some degree and helped plan it to some degree and then they
didn't notify law enforcement afterwards U makes them accomplishes to the murder what with respect to the
culpability of Mr rabi and Miss Reed there's a concept in Idaho law and jurist Prudence throughout the country
those who knew of and participated in the commission of a crime can be held for the same offense as the person who
actually pulls the trigger and the evidence showed that it was U Mr Vandenberg that was the one who
actually caused the death but important in the investigation was that Reed and rabie were each involved in this
conspiracy and they each participated in it uh to one degree or another that gave vanderberg gevy and R
quite a bit of time to even just go to a pay phone and you know dial the M mystery number and call the police
department and say Hey you know there's a body out in such and such place instead of you know just leaving him
there those three took a piece of me when they took my son Keith R would have been unlikely to
commit a crime like that on his own I think Nicholas Vandenberg was the person interested in The Killing and I think
Montana Reed was was willing to go along with it Idaho has uh the death penalty technically on the books um each of the
three were charged with u either the first degree homicide or conspiracy to commit
murder ultimately Mr Raby pled to first-degree murder I believe that Mr Vandenberg pled to first-degree murder
Mr Raby pled to um being an AER EMB better or a conspirator to um first-degree murder and U Reed also pled to U being
an accomplice or aiding a murder as well as other [Music] offenses they never contacted us to say
that they were you know doing plea deals or anything else like that they just know did it that we found
out most people think if there's a small amount of evidence even if it's a bullet
matching the type of wound sustains for a murder or even just one piece of DNA that a case should be brought against
the offender but that is not always the calculation that police prosecutors make
because once they take that case to trial if there's reasonable doubts and a jury finds that person not guilty they
can never bring murder charges against them again so they knew they really have one shot and so until they had enough
evidence that would convince the jury they really didn't want to bring this case
forward the total sentences that were were rendered I believe uh in the ballpark of 30 years for Mr venberg in
the ballpark of 25 years for Mr Raby and in the ballpark of 18 years for M Reed my thoughts on
vandenberg's sentencing are he didn't get enough I don't think that he should have the eligibility of
parole I think that he should live his life in prison I think he should have been
killed 30 some odd years is not enough know he took my son out of this world he should be taken out of this world too I
but I got no choice and what he got what I'd like to say to Reed and Raby is you will get out someday you
will see your children and hug them tight because Hunter's not able to um I wish you guys would would made
better choices would have given my family closure earlier and for Vandenburg I really don't have much to
say to him he's worthless to me they're not worth even given a second [Music] thought you know I don't let him live in
my head [Music] I know my grandson would be upset if I had bad thoughts about him so
in order of my grandson I don't let him live in my head just makes life [Music] shorter justice has not been served it
will never be served yeah they they got off easy if I could say anything to Hunter I
would tell him that Mimi loves him that he will always be her Hunter bear we don't get to see his daughter very much
but what we do see she's a beautiful young lady and he would be so proud of her from what we've
seen what would I say if I could to hunor I'm sorry our last words to each other
were not what they should have been if I could I'd hold him tight and never let him
go I talk to people all the time about you know the the dangers of hitchhiking the only thing you can do is live one
day at a time you know keep his memory alive we had a celebration of life I had invited all his friends to come and
you'll write a note to you know to him and we'd send him off in balloons his best friend showed up with a little baby
boy named hunter that he had named after my son because that he says that uh Hunter is the
reason he straightened up I feel that you know with another little hunter in this world that maybe
just maybe my hunter is living through him [Music] what

In 2017, 18-year-old Hunter Smith is last seen alive by his family when he departs Oregon and hitchhikes across state lines. Months later, his remains are discovered in Idaho’s Owyhee Desert. Police leave no stone unturned in their investigation and are shocked when they uncover the truth of what happened to Hunter Smith and the chance encounter that led to his untimely death. Murdered At First Sight is a true crime documentary series that tells the first-hand stories of the most complex and hard-to-solve homicide cases: murders committed by strangers.

Brief Summary

Hunter Smith's tragic murder in Idaho reveals deep family bonds and the painful search for justice.

Key points

The Discovery. A couple hunting discovered what appeared to be a human corpse.
A Mother's Pain. The moment a mother realizes she has lost her child is devastating.
Hunter's Transformation. Hunter was a laidback skater boy who became a responsible father.
Missing Person's Report. A frantic search for Hunter begins after he goes missing for weeks.
DNA Confirmation. The family is faced with the painful task of confirming the identity of the remains.
The Longest Wait. Waiting for DNA test results felt like an eternity for the family.

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