LINCOLN, Neb. —

Rain clouds clustered over the Nebraska Capitol on Friday morning as lawmakers, law enforcement and families of missing people came to mark a state day of memory.

"I think I made this happen," said Jannel Rap, speaking of the rain. Rap founded GINA for Missing Persons. "I wrote a song in 2005 called 'October 17th' and there's a lyric in it that says, 'It's been raining. It's been raining since October 17th.'"

It's been 25 years since Regina Bos went missing without a trace in Lincoln. Her story is one of many in a tragic line-up of cases without closure.

"I had so many friends and family reaching out to me for support," Christina Loupin, a mother of a missing son, said. "But yet I felt alone. I had no one that truly understood what I was going through."

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