How Facebook Helped Rescue a Man's Missing Grandparents

National Grandparents Day was last Sunday — You may have missed it, but Bill Byerley didn't. He spent it at his grandmother and grandfather's place. His mother was there, and his brother, too. They cooked, ate and enjoyed the conversation and companionship of close kin

But that cozy family gathering could have been a much more somber occasion after Byerley's grandparents went missing earlier this summer. Beset by confusion on a trip to visit a friend for lunch, they took some wrong turns. They weren't found until two days later, hungry, disoriented and dehydrated. Byerley led an effort to find them, which eventually succeeded thanks largely to two things: Facebook and the kindness of strangers Read more...