It's one of those images he will never be able to shake. There were all the little signs that led up to the moment -- the missing money, the declining grades, subtle changes in appearance, the constant tardiness, changing moods.
And then Jim and Nancy Bildner reached the end of what he would later describe as "a parent's seemingly endless reserve of hope." With his son in bed, they turned over the boy's knapsack on the rug of their study and braced themselves for what would fall out.
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