13 Days of Silence ~The Murder of Rylee James

They reduced him to ash and evidence. His mother was determined to make sure that would not be his legacy. On February 14, 2022, twenty-one-year-old Rylee James was murdered and his body burned inside a car in rural Kansas. But his mother, Teri Busse, didn’t know that yet. For thirteen days, she waited. She answered questions. She searched for information. She held onto hope through requests for dental records, unanswered calls, and a silence that grew more terrifying with every passing day. Then came the confirmation that changed everything. 13 Days of Silence: The Murder of Rylee James is Teri’s firsthand account of those thirteen days—and the years that followed as she fought to understand what happened to her son, sat through the criminal cases of the men connected to his death, and confronted the painful difference between convictions and justice. Part true crime, part memoir, 13 Days of Silence goes beyond courtrooms, evidence, and headlines to tell the story of the person at the center of it all: Rylee. Because before he became a case number, a crime scene, or evidence presented in a courtroom, he was a son. And his story deserved to be told. The thirteen days ended. The silence did not. All proceeds from the sales of this Book fund the Rylee James Memorial scholarship💙💙💙