At the hospital, doctors confirmed what Daniel had suspected: the boy had been outside for quite some time. He was dehydrated and exhausted but otherwise stable. For several hours, no one knew who he was or how he had ended up alone on the highway. Then came the call. A woman named Margaret Foster recognized the boy from a photo shared with local news. His name was Lucas — her grandson. Lucas’s mother, Emma, had set out days earlier to visit Margaret but never arrived. That information set a larger search in motion. Rescue teams returned to the area where Lucas had been found and discovered, deep in a wooded ravine, the wreckage of a silver car. Investigators determined that Emma had likely swerved to avoid an animal, sending the car down a steep embankment hidden from view.