On her son’s 25th birthday, Georgina Degerness returned to the city where she last saw him to sing “Happy Birthday” and appeal for information about his disappearance over 10 years ago.

Lucas “Luke” Degerness went missing from Prince George, B.C. in June 2007. He was 14 years old. 

Even if the news is bad, Degerness said, knowing what happened would be better than the uncertainty she is dealing with now.

“It’s a hell, living like this… It’s a terrible, terrible limbo,” she said.

“I want