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Hoosier families honoring lost loved ones with no answers

These families all have one thing in common — they've had family die with no answers.

INDIANAPOLIS — It's a heartbreaking way to honor a milestone.

"The grief never ends," Gregg Turner said.

This month would have marked Shannon Turner's 60th birthday, a birthday she would celebrate with family like her brother, Gregg.

"I miss her every day. The thought never leaves me. I think about what her last five minutes were like," Gregg said.

Shannon disappeared in December 1997. Her brother said she was last seen leaving work early in the morning.

Saturday evening, he was in Commons Park, near East New York Street and North Keystone Avenue — the place where he thinks his sister was killed.

In the decades since, he's kept meticulous records of every clue and every detail that's come in. At the park, he's honoring her and others.

"It's a vigil to bring awareness to all the other missing and some of the murder that are without justice here in Indianapolis, to make sure they get justice and to let our voices be heard," Gregg said.

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Brian Donahue was also at Commons Park and is remembering his son, Brian Donahue II.

"It's been a big, big hole, big boy in our lives. It's just a sad situation, something that should have never, ever happened," Donahue said.

Donahue walked in the front door and found his son dead.

"Was just total shock. I was just in disbelief," Donahue said.

His son, Brian, died in March 1998, but he still doesn't have answers.

"It's very disappointing. We figured at the very beginning that we would have possibly got an answer pretty quick, within a few days or weeks after it had happened. And like I said, It's been 26 years, and we still don't have any any answers," Donahue said.

Now, these families get together to support each other.

"It's a nightmare, nightmare for any family. Your life stops the day they disappear, pretty much at that moment" Gregg said.

Both families are grieving and still don't have one thing in common — answers.

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