Fisherman feels “something” bump against his leg – discovers tragic fate of missing 10-year-old boy

For more than thirty agonizing hours, an extensive team of first responders, local volunteers, and Joshua’s devastated family combed the churning sea and shoreline, desperately clinging to a thin, fading hope that a miracle might occur. Instead, finality arrived in the cruelest, most unthinkable way possible—through a local fisherman wading in the surf who suddenly felt a heavy object bump directly against his leg in the water. Realizing the tragic nature of what he had just encountered, the fisherman quickly alerted a nearby police officer. Officer Christopher Redmond immediately shed his gear, waded out deep into the crashing waves, and brought Joshua’s body back to the shore. He carried the child home, and with him, delivered the painful, definitive certainty that Joshua’s family had begged for: the grueling physical search was finally over, but the deep questions, and the lifelong grief, had only just begun.