In the spring of 2015, the rural town of Attica, New York, was rocked by the grim discovery of a beloved local farmer's body. Douglas Mess, a 52-year-old male, was reported missing by his son on Monday, April 20th, after he failed to show up for his job as a supervisor at Baskin Livestock in Batavia. Concern mounted as friends and family knew him to be a hardworking and dedicated man, deeply rooted in his life as a farmer. A search was launched on the family's sprawling dairy farm, a place where
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