This story was originally published in February 2011. Life is good for Nicole Buttel. The bubbly 5-foot, 16-year-old smiles and laughs easily. She is constantly in motion. This is life No. 2.

Anderson, then 71 years old, was hoping he would find the man’s son, David Russell Buttel, mourning at the funeral. He wanted to ask Buttel where he had buried his son, Keith Anderson.