The search for Ruben Carranza began with hope, but now only questions and grief remain more than 10 weeks later.

Carranza, 31, was reported missing in late July and was last seen in Greensburg.

"If I get his body back, then I also can answer questions as to what happened to him, and hopefully rest a little better if I don't see any trauma on his body," his mother, Dawn Rose, said on Friday.

KDKA's Mamie Bah said, "You're saying body, do you think your son is dead?"

"Because of the evidence that we know, that maybe other people don't know that the detectives have shared with us, is why we feel hopeless," Rose said.

They are accepting what they feared from the start: that their beloved son is dead.

"I do feel like he's passed," Rose said. "I do. I'm just looking for his remains."

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