Homer’s only child, his daughter Laurel Homer, was 10 months old when her father was killed in the crash.

“I don’t know that much,” she says. “It’s something that I just don’t ask about a lot.”

For Laurel, walling off the facts of her dad’s death has been a protective measure. “It’s something that I grew up kind of ashamed of,” she says. “I wasn’t normal like all the other people that went to my school. It’s something that makes me very vulnerable and it makes me different. And I didn’t like people to know.”

From a very early age, Laurel was traumatized by the little she did know about how her father died.

“The way my mom explained it to me was that there were bad men on his plane and that he was gone because of those bad men,” she says. “So then it basically made me terrified of all men, including family members, strangers, everybody.”