“There’s a family sitting next to a phone waiting for a phone call from us to tell them we found their son.”

The family still waits.

Bell: Calgary cops soldier on as search for 11-year-old Parker goes nowhere Back to video

Their 11-year-old son Parker, a non-verbal autistic boy, went missing the Thursday before last Thursday.

The morning of July 16.

Sgt. Rich Wall, 30 years a cop, tells the press about the massive search of these past many days.

It has turned up nothing. They’ve searched on the ground, under the ground, on the water, under the water, in the air. They’ve used drones, a helicopter, boats, horses, dogs, other police, search and rescue experts.

There has been a massive search involving hundreds upon hundreds of searchers going through areas once, twice, three times, areas beyond the Thorncliffe community where Parker went missing.

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Around the clock searching. Homes, businesses.

There have been several hundred tips with investigators checking, double-checking, triple-checking every one of them.

Where is Parker? Where could he be? He can’t just have vanished. Frustrating is not a big enough word to describe the feeling.

Infuriating? Maddening?

And then there’s the........

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