Father reflects on son's battle with mental illness: 'Trey deserved better'
The last day Nate Soesbe spent with his son Trey, they were driving to the Hesed House shelter in Aurora, Ill., and passed an old man they assumed was homeless.
"I looked at him and said, 'Trey, if you continue down this path, you are going to end up like that guy,' " Nate said. "He looked at me and laughed and said, 'That's not going to be me, Dad.' And the tragic part is, he was right. Because he never made it that far."
It was December 2015. That was the last time Trey, then 27, was seen alive.
His skeletal remains were recently found by a kayaker along the Fox River between Montgomery and Oswego, Illinois.
Trey battled bipolar disorder and
