6 of 6: The Loss

It has now been twenty years since Max Devrees took a ride on a jet ski while vacationing in Aruba and never returned. Twenty years that the Dvire's family has been living without answers, Twenty years that a sister has lived without her brother, twenty years that a mom has lived without her son. Max's case is incredibly sad, and it's devastating to think about what could have been. Where would Max be today if he never took that ride with Senior? How different would everyone's lives be? Will truly never know the answers to those questions, but there are questions that do have answers. Questions that pertain to the events that occurred while Senior took Max out on the water. Questions regarding the whereabouts of Junior while all of this was happening, What they did with Max the mere three hours that they had alone with him out on the water while everyone searched for them. This is episode six the loss. Max's case remains stagnant today. The FBI currently has his case, but it's unfortunately sitting on a shelf as an inactive case. The Debris family deserves better than mat Max deserves better the mat. Max was a brother, a son, a nephew, and a friend to so many. He is missed by everyone who knew and loved him. Whenever we were with him because he was silly and he was funny, and he was more like me because we find humor and the dumbest things. So we always had a good time. It's fun. He had a lot of stories he didn't have a problem telling me, like about him and his friends and things that they did and silly things and stuff like that. Then there was the serious side to. Him, thinking a lot about him and what we would have been like has brother and sister ted we had that opportunity. I don't think I really realized how much I missed him. You know what, you need a lot of time, so you don't tell people that you're sad or you're heartbroken or you're still crying in the bathtub because they don't want to know that. They don't want to hear that. They want to be like, oh, everything's okay, So you tell them that, but you're not. You know, you're sad because no one's listening to you about your son and they think like, you're not going to find out what are we going to do about it. I don't know what we're going to do about it, but we have to do something other than just say it's been five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years. It goes by fast when it's not going by so slow. So I don't know what's going to happen. But Facebook has reconnected everybody in that timeframe. Max's friends, his teacher, you know, and given him a little bit of a voice that he didn't have back then for them to share stories. Because the school wasn't helping in the grieving process for these kids, They're like, oh, there's a counselor if you want to talk to them. Dominique goes to school. You know, they didn't even think about her and how she was gonna be treated or handled in school. You know, I had no idea of you. I mean, you're just like walking zombie's just trying to get to the next step. And that little girl suffered so much trying to find herself in this mess of her dead brother, that again she was another lost or added victim to this whole story. Is you know, how do you go on after lucying your father, your brother, You don't have any friends anymore because they can't relate to you. How are you gonna have fun at a sleepover when everybody's you know, laughing, and you're like, I'm not that much fun. You know, she's missed out in a whole life, and it would be nice for her too have a closure to this story, not just me, but for her too. You know, she's like the one who's gotten forgotten about this whole thing because you I'm the mom, but she's the sister without the father, and you know, I think she's gotten lost in the story of Max. Well, I know, everybody just wants to be heard, and there's so many voices out there that never get a chance. And as little as this might seem, it's not. You guys reached out and want to know, and it's not just Max's stories, all the other stories. You know that you are trying to give a voice to ENLiGHT and you know what, there's so many grateful people that just don't know how to say thank you, So thank you. Max was an incredibly smart, funny, and caring fourteen year old boy with his whole life ahead of him. He had so much potential and could have done so much with his life. Despite being here for such a short time, Max continues to make an impact on those who hear his story, and we need to continue to keep Max's memory alone by sharing his story and putting pressure on the FBI and the Uruban government to take a closer look at his case. We want justice from Max and his family. If you have any information about Maxdavrees case, please email giving to the Max at Comcast dot net. The email will be linked in the show notes below. 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