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A0 years of cult violence has sent countless young men to their graves. my friend, dapo, was one of them. he wasjust 25 when he was murdered. this is dapos grave. and it looks completely abandoned. its literally falling apart. even the headstones missing. coming here is supposed to give me, like, a sense of closure, but seeing his grave in such disarray...

Private moment with his oldest daughter. >> i went out there, and i told her that we did it. she could be proud of everybody. >> reporter: todds been back many times since. lisas grave is a special deeply personal place for him. he designed her headstone. what do the figures in it? >> the first thing i would do when i started sketching it is i would draw a heart out. for some reason in my head it should be in the shape a heart. second thing i would put is a mother holding a baby, andleasea and i...

Even the headstones missing. coming here is supposed to give me, like, a sense of closure, but seeing his grave in such disarray... it just. .. it hurts. this is the final resting place for somebody who had aspirations, who had dreams. not even a photo of dapo survives. it feels like hes been forgotten, totally. its like... no memories of him. like he was never here. thousands and thousands of young men have died like this in the last four decades. and just nobody remembering them, its like they...

The Christmas season isn’t always about giving gifts, twinkling lights and caroling.

Somebody. that news reached larrys family as they were preparing for his funeral. >> when we found out that sonia had him cremated and the remains were not coming back, that was yet another slap in the face. sonia controlling everything. >> the family still held the funeral and left a headstone with a small, empty nation. someday they told themselves, someday they would retrieve larrys ashes and put them here. at home. >> for his remains to be in the philippines is unthinkable. >> how much of th...

Continuing coverage. at the bottom of the hour well hear from a passenger stuck aboard a plane during the chaos and the chilling announcement from the cockpit. also tonight, this is incredible. cheating death. a woman in a coma battling covid for weeks, wakes up on the same day she was set to be taken off life support. her family had even picked out a headstone and planned her funeral. just a stunning story of survival to share with you tonight. youre in the cnn newsroom. well be right back. som...

Funeral, ordered the headstone, she did what doctors said was impossible. call the bfi. my butterfinger. ♪ ♪ no one lays a finger on your butterfinger.

On a daily basis now.— on a daily basis now. yes, so im on a daily basis now. yes, so im quite _ on a daily basis now. yes, so im quite confident _ on a daily basis now. yes, so im quite confident that - im quite confident that everything weve seen this summer and previous summers is going to get worse. probably even noticeably worse over the next five years. another thing that sort of keeps me up at night is the unknown unknowns. the headstone was not something in the pacific north—west thi...

Sadly you just discovered that your loved ones headstone is no longer intact or in just one piece, what do you do? Who is responsible?

CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS (WSIL) -- Despite the weekends wet weather, students braved the rain to clean headstones at a local cemetery.