We can't begin to imagine the pain, the burden that Michael and Alice Williams have carried with such dignity and grace for seven months and will continue to carry for the rest of their lives. What happened to them could happen to any of us. We long to help shoulder their burden. To do so would bless and comfort us far more than it would them. We can't give them back their daughter.
Nothing can do that now.
But in the same way we worked to find Christina, we can work to seek justice in her behalf and to ensure that what happened to her doesn't happen to another child. Somebody, somewhere, knows something about whoever was responsible for her death, and we will know, too, perhaps sooner than later. In the days and months and even years ahead, we will try, as her brokenhearted father begged us, to keep Christina's memory alive. We'll remember that her life had purpose and meaning and try to find purpose and meaning in her death, as well. We'll remember that we did our best to find her.