He said that his wife and son had returned to South Korea, but 20 years later the truth was known.

A strange reflection of the sun under a billboard in the Interstate 85-40 in I took a bath, North Carolina, took them to an unpleasant surprise: the corpse of a child whose bones were already discovered as a result of putrefaction, had been abandoned there by his murderer. The experts determined that he had been strangled, but science could not distinguish his identity at the time.

"On September 25, 1998, a maintenance crew was mowing the lawn under a sign placed on the industrial unit near I-85 when the tractor driver noticed a skull at the edge of the wood line, causing a call. to the authorities. The Orange County Sheriff's Office reacted and discovered decomposed human remains, which were subsequently identified as those of a young child."says the statement made by the county sheriff's office.

The comparisons made by the investigators of the file with the file of photos of cases of children lost in the region did not coincide with the characteristics of this small abandoned village, under the huge advertising sign of this highway. This does not correspond to the national database either.

Boy under the billboard (Boy under the billboard). This is how the case has been known for 20 years.

The file containing the details of the homicide remained in view in the principal's office Tim Horne, sheriff of the Orange County, who never wanted to leave this business.

For all these years, as the police were trying to find out who this child was on the Interstate 80-45 of North CarolinaAnother person was looking on the Internet for a relative close to the one he had stopped seeing a long time ago. She had been informed that she had moved with her mother to South Korea, her home country..

There was some logic, but after so many years, it was impossible that there was no trace of Robert Bobby Adam Whitt on the internet that was where your cousin Natalie Mosteller I was looking for him and his mother –Myoung Hwa Cho– for a long time. "My sisters and I spent a lot of time looking for it on Facebook and Instagram, things like that, without resultsays the 39-year-old WCPO.

Bobby He was 10 when his father told his family that the child and his son cho He had been abandoned to return to the country of origin of the woman.

For 20 years, the story had a certain logic for the family, but with doubts. How could it be that there is no trace of it?

"Once the years pbaded and I could not find it, there was a nuisance in my head … something may have happened to him, but it's not something something you want to believe. I hoped that, in the worst case, his family would simply put him against us. I did not want to believe that I was really dead"he said Natalie the newspaper The news and the observer.

They did it thanks to the work of Barbara Rae-Venter, a geneticist consultant who helped find DeAngelo. Horne she thought that it could be used to name the murdered child and try to veil the veil of mystery surrounding the case.

Rae-Venter badyzed the genetic material contained in the body of the child found at the side of the road and determined that it was a person whose composition indicated that it was safe. was the first generation of a Caucasian and an Asian. That way, they found a parent of Mosteller who had downloaded his genetic data on the basis and with whom the victim shared his DNA.

On December 26th, this family member – whose name was not revealed – responded to the call of Rae-Venter. He said that in his family there was a similar case and said that the child and the mother had disappeared – according to the story of the father – in South Korea, where they were supposed to be back.

But when he thought he was dealing with the solution of the case, Horne and his team realized that it may not have been a crime, but a double homicide. Everything was complicated. If the body belonged BobbySo where was his mother?

Horne began a search for dead bodies of unidentified women that coincided with cho, the mother of the child. Finally, he found a clue: May 13, 1998, several months before the discovery of the child, the body of an Asian girl was found in the Spartanburg County, Caroline from the south. She had been killed by asphyxiation and wore ties of attachment. She had also been thrown into the Interstate 85but 320 kilometers of the billboard where they deposited Bobby.

The genetic comparisons between the two victims determined that they were both mother and child: Myoung Hwa Cho and Robert Adam Whitt.

Enclosed and having nothing to refute, the father and the husband confessed to the two murders to prosecutors, who still have not revealed the identity of the double murderer. You only know, according to the sheriff's office, that in 1999 was convicted of armed badault and is in prison.

"Bob was a handsome boy. So kind, so nice. He loved his father. It's another thing that cuts my head: how his father-son relationship seemed so close and could do such a thing"He concluded Natalie know the terrible truth.