A heartbroken son has revealed details of the final hours of his parents’ lives after they were found dead near an open trunk having disappeared after a Thanksgiving dinner.Linda and Gary Lightfoot, 81 and 82 respectively, traveled to Panhandle, Texas to spend Thanksgiving with other family members, according to PEOPLE. The trip usually takes around three hours, but when they failed to return to their home city of Lubbock after it got dark, their son Greg – who lives in Lubbock – grew concerned.

He phoned relatives in Pandhandle who told him that his mother and father had seemed fine when they departed.Neither Linda nor Gary had a phone on them and Greg was sufficiently worried to tell his relatives to report his parents as missing to local police.The search lasted for five days, after which the bodies of Linda and Gary were found in a rural area of Quay County, New Mexico.Quay County Sheriff’s Office revealed that deputies were dispatched to a ranch west of Tucumcari after receiving a report of a possible sighting of the couple’s vehicle.