A picture of a guy online isn't proof of life.
Imagine the heartlessness it would take to do these things to children? Think of the boy growing up a hunter, in a hunting family. He learned to skin a deer by age ten. Maybe he was a bit queasy at first. By 20 it's just the way it is, the way he learned. It's just a deer for meat. The people killing kids are doing something normal to them. It's the way it is. It's just a sheep.
Book published 1998. Graduated 2005. Book published when 11. Do the math.