A decade after Irene's fury, no sign of Vermont teenager

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A decennary aft a Vermont teen disappeared arsenic Tropical Storm Irene was bearing down connected the state, his parent is inactive hoping idiosyncratic volition beryllium capable to reply the question astir what happened to him.

Marble Arvidson was 17 erstwhile helium near his Brattleboro foster location with a antheral who appeared to beryllium successful his 20s connected the day of Aug. 27, 2011, saying he'd beryllium location successful fractional an hour. That was hours earlier the rains started. He has ne'er been seen again.

By the clip Marble was reported missing the adjacent day, regular communications were down and exigency responders overwhelmed by the scope of the earthy disaster.

At first, everyone held retired the anticipation the lanky teen with an unpredictable temper and a penchant for achromatic covering mightiness person tally distant — Marble did person a past of staying retired overnight — but implicit the years his mother, Sigrid Arvidson, has each but discarded that possibility.

“As a mother, I can't halt looking for his carnal body, whether helium is successful it oregon his assemblage is the husk helium utilized to unrecorded in,” Arvidson, who present lives successful Abiquiu, New Mexico, told The Associated Press connected Friday.

She'll beryllium backmost successful Vermont connected Saturday for a nationalist gathering successful Brattleboro adjacent wherever her lad was past seen. She's going to spot a marker and marque a connection that volition beryllium successful portion a plea for much information.

The reward for accusation astir what happened to Marble is present $10,000, she said.

Arvidson said determination were astir apt 10 possibilities of what happened to her son, from the comparatively benign similar falling and hitting his caput earlier tumbling down a slope into the water, to murder.

Brattleboro Police Lt. Jeremy Evans said they reopened the probe into what happened to Marble earlier this year, to coincide with the 10th day of his disappearance.

They are successful the process of reinterviewing astir 100 imaginable witnesses and pursuing up connected the scores of tips they received a decennary agone and much precocious done the department's extremity line.

Evans said they are getting assistance from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the New England State Police Intelligence Network. The lawsuit is listed connected the Vermont State Police missing persons page.

Evans doesn't cognize what happened to Marble, either.

“The lone happening we tin beryllium comfy saying is he’s deceased,” Evans said.

When Irene roared up the seashore successful August 2011, it killed astatine slightest 46 radical successful 13 states and a fistful of others successful the Caribbean. Many successful the Northeast breathed a suspiration of alleviation erstwhile the New York City country mostly was spared. Then the tempest settled implicit Vermont.

Parts of Vermont got 11 inches (28 centimeters) of rainfall successful 24 hours. The tempest killed six successful the state, washed homes disconnected their foundations and damaged oregon destroyed much than 200 bridges and 500 miles (805 kilometers) of highway.

A fig of events are being planned to people the 10 years since Irene's fury connected Aug. 28, 2011, the day of the state's biggest earthy catastrophe since a 1927 flood.

For overmuch of Vermont, Irene is present history, the rebuilding complete. But not for Arvidson oregon the Brattleboro police.

“It precise overmuch is portion of Irene due to the fact that it hampered each facet of trying to hunt for him," Arvidson said.

Arvidson said she believes determination are radical retired determination who cognize thing astir what happened to her son. She hopes those radical person matured and are acceptable to bash the close happening to assistance find Marble.

“Maybe they’ve been holding onto thing and they presume idiosyncratic knows," she said. “But present is simply a bully clip to get that disconnected your chest.”

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