From the Yazoo Herald on 18 Feb 2004
"William Hertz and his wife, Diana, drove from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Saturday when they heard that their daughter and her family were missing. With tears in his eyes and a quivering voice, he talked of his pain Monday afternoon.
“We found out at about 12:30 or 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon,” Hertz said. “David (Moore), our son-in-law, who is married to our daughter, Elizabeth, called us and said, ‘Mr. Bill, you better come. Something has happened bad. There’s blood outside.”
He said he last spoke to his daughter, Rebecca, on Thursday night on the phone. “She was quite tired. She was off that day and James Patrick wasn’t feeling good and was cranky.”