Landin Lee Bodine, an 18-year-old male from Mt. Zion in the Decatur, Illinois, area, was remembered by those closest to him as a hardworking student who gravitated toward simple comforts and familiar places. He spent his days balancing school with work, and his free time with the kinds of routines that made a small-town life feel big—football and track, music and car stereos, late-night Taco Bell runs, and quiet hangouts by the water at Sportsman Park.
That park—near Lake Decatur—be
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