The Search That Stopped a City

In March 2018, a three-year-old boy named Casey Hathaway wandered away from his grandmother's backyard in Craven County, North Carolina, and disappeared into dense, freezing woods. Temperatures dropped below twenty degrees that night. Search teams mobilized within hours — not just local police, but FBI agents, Marine Corps volunteers from nearby Camp Lejeune, and hundreds of civilians who drove from across the state to walk shoulder-to-shoulder through thickets of briar and swamp.…