On June 22nd, 2013, one of the most unusual search and rescue operations in the history of Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky began.

22-year-old twins Ethan and Lucas Reynolds set out on a one-day caving trip along an officially approved tourist route.

Only one of them returned.

15 days later, the second was found locked in an iron cage in an abandoned technical compartment of the cave, alive, but barely hanging on.

his own twin brother had left him there to die.

Ethan and Lucas Reynolds were born on March 3rd, 1991 in Louisville, Kentucky.

They were identical twins, virtually indistinguishable in appearance, but with completely different personalities.

Their parents, David and Margaret Reynolds, owned a successful family business, a chain of auto repair shops in central Kentucky that brought in a steady income of about $2 million a year.

Ethan was 11 minutes older.

From childhood, he showed leadership qualities and was more responsible and serious.

He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in business management and worked for his father’s company, gradually taking over the management.

David Reynolds made no secret of the fact that he saw Ethan as his successor.

He often told his friends, “Ethan is my heir.

He has a good head on his shoulders.

” Lucas was the complete opposite.

Impulsive and prone to risk-taking, he dropped out of college after two years, tried a dozen different jobs, and never stayed in any of them for more than a year.

At 22, he was still living with his parents, had about $30,000 in credit card debt, and no steady source of income.

His relationship with his father was strained.

David considered Lucas a failure and often compared the brothers, which created growing tension between them.

On January 8th, 2012, David and Margaret Reynolds died in a car accident on Highway 64 between Louisville and Lexington.

A truck crossed into oncoming traffic, causing a head-on collision.

Both died instantly.

The brothers were 20 years old.

After the funeral, the will was read.

David Reynolds divided the inheritance unevenly.

Ethan received 70% of the family business and the majority of the real estate, the family home and two rental properties.

Lucas received 30% of the business and a cash payment of $150,000.

The total value of the inheritance was estimated at approximately $3,800,000.

Ethan’s share was about 2,700,000.

Lucas’s share was 1,100,000.

The difference was significant.

The will stated the reason.

Ethan has demonstrated responsibility and the ability to manage the business.

Lucas has not yet proven his reliability, but I hope that his share will help him find his way.

Lucas was furious.

The family’s lawyer, Robert Connelly, who was present when the will was read, later testified in court.

Lucas shouted that it was unfair that his father had always loved Ethan more, that he had never given Lucas a chance.

Ethan tried to calm his brother down, but Lucas left, slamming the door behind him.

That was in February 2012.

Since then, the relationship between the brothers has been extremely strained.

For the next 16 months, the brothers had almost no contact.

Ethan ran the business, and things were going well.

Lucas received his cash payment and quickly spent most of it on paying off debts and unsuccessful investments in cryptocurrency.

By June 2013, he had less than $30,000 left.

He lived in a cheap apartment in Bowling Green and worked as a bartender.

On June 15th, 2013, Lucas unexpectedly called Ethan.

The conversation lasted about 20 minutes.

Ethan later told investigators.

Lucas said he wanted to make up that enough time had passed that he understood.

Our parents had made their decision and we needed to move on.

He suggested we go to Mammoth Cave together like we did with our parents when we were kids.

I was surprised but happy.

I always wanted to mend my relationship with my brother.

Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world with more than 650 km of explored passages.

The Reynolds family had visited it several times when the brothers were teenagers.

They remembered these trips as a happy time.

Lucas suggested a specific route, the historic tour, a popular tourist route about 3 km long, passing through historical parts of the cave that have been open to visitors since the 19th century.

But he also suggested exploring some old service corridors that he said he had read about on caving forums.

Ethan agreed, suspecting nothing.

Between June 15th and 22, Lucas took several actions that later became key pieces of evidence.

On June 18th, he purchased a detailed map of the Mammoth Cave Cave system, including old service areas and areas closed to tourists at an equipment store in Bowling Green.

The salesman, Kevin Marshall, remembered the purchase.

The guy specifically asked about the old technical sections, about access to closed areas.

I said that entry was prohibited and that special permission was required.

He said he was just interested in history.

On June 19th, 3 days before the trip, Lucas visited a hardware store in Bowling Green.

Surveillance cameras recorded him buying bolt cutters, a powerful flashlight, a 15 meter rope, and gloves.

The receipt was saved.

The total amount was $8360.

The salesperson did not remember the purchase.

It was too common for a hardware store.

On June 20th, Lucas visited the public library in Bowling Green.

Librarian Jennifer Holmes later testified he spent about three hours looking through archival materials about Mammoth Cave.

He asked for old maps, documents about service facilities, and histories of closed sections.

I remember because it was an unusual request.

Most people are interested in tourist information.

These actions indicated planning.

Lucas didn’t just suggest a spontaneous trip.

He was preparing.

He studied the cave, the old service areas, and bought tools.

The prosecutor later called it cold, calculated preparation for a crime.

On the morning of June 22nd, 2013, the brothers met in the parking lot of the Mammoth Cave Visitor Center at around 10:00 a.m.

The weather was perfect, sunny, with a temperature of around 24° C.

It was an ideal day for a hike.

Ranger Emily Carter was working at the cave entrance that morning.

She remembered the brothers.

Two young guys, twins, obviously, very similar.

One was more talkative, smiling, joking.

The other was quieter, more serious.

They bought tickets for the historic tour, which started at 11:00.

I explained the rules.

Stay with the group.

Don’t stray from the route.

Don’t enter closed areas.

They nodded and said they understood.

The historic tour began on schedule.

The group consisted of 23 tourists and a guide, Mark Henderson, a veteran with 15 years of experience working in the park.

The route passed through several iconic areas, Rotunda, Gothic Avenue, River Sticks.

Mark led the tour, telling the history of the cave, its geology, and other facts.

Around noon, the group was in a section called the Methodist Church, a large hall where religious services were held in the 19th century.

Mark explained the history and the tourists took photos.

At that moment, Mark noticed that two people were missing, the Reynolds brothers.

He asked the group if anyone had seen them.

Several people replied that they had seen them in the previous hall about 10 minutes ago.

Mark stopped the tour, retraced his steps, and called out the brother’s names.

There was no response.

He reached the previous hall, Gothic Avenue, but found no one.

Mark returned to the group, led everyone to the exit, and then immediately reported the missing tourist to park management.

The time was around 1:30 p.m.

The park’s protocol for missing tourists was clear.

The park’s chief ranger, Thomas Drake, activated a search operation.

Within an hour, eight rangers and four experienced volunteer cavers working with the park entered the cave.

They split into groups and began combing the route and adjacent passages.

At 300 p.m., one of the searchers, Ranger Steven Clark, found Lucas Reynolds.

Lucas was walking alone along the main passage of the historic tour toward the exit, clearly lost.

Steven approached him.

Are you Lucas Reynolds? Where’s your brother? Lucas looked agitated and confused.

He explained, “We fell behind the group while looking at the formations.

Then we decided to catch up with the group, but we took different routes.

I thought Ethan would take the direct route, and I decided to try the side passage.

” thinking it would be faster, but I got lost.

When I got back to the main route, Ethan was gone.

I thought he had already made it to the exit.

Steven immediately reported this over the radio.

Lucas was brought to the surface and handed over to Chief Ranger Drake.

Drake asked detailed questions.

Where exactly did you last see your brother? Which passage did you choose? Did he have a flashlight, water, a phone? Lucas explained that he had last seen Ethan in the Gothic Avenue area at around 100 p.m.

Ethan had a backpack with water, a flashlight, and a phone, standard equipment.

Lucas insisted that the separation was accidental, that he expected to find Ethan at the exit.

Drake recorded the testimony, but something about Lucas’s story seemed strange.

The experienced ranger sensed inconsistencies.

By 6:00 in the evening, Ethan had still not been found.

The search operation was expanded.

Additional caverns from the regional rescue service were called in.

Groups combed through kilometers of passages, calling Ethan’s name, checking every side corridor, every fork in the road.

Mammoth Cave is huge.

Even the areas near the historic tour have dozens of branches, many of which are not marked on tourist maps.

By midnight, the search was temporarily suspended due to the team’s fatigue.

It was decided to resume in the morning with renewed energy.

Lucas stayed at a hotel near the park.

Ranger Drake asked him not to leave to remain available for questions.

Lucas agreed.

On the morning of June 23rd, the search resumed with redoubled intensity.

Specialists from the National Spelological Association, search dogs, and drones with thermal imaging cameras joined the operation.

The latter had limited use in the cave due to the rock formations, but were used in the larger chambers.

The second day yielded no results.

Ethan was not found.

His phone was not answering.

The signal did not reach deep into the cave.

The search dogs did not pick up a scent.

The humidity and rocky ground made their work difficult.

The teams explored all the historic tour routes, all the known side passages, and all the tourist areas.

Nothing.

Day three, June 24th.

The search area was expanded to include areas closed to tourists.

Mammoth Cave has huge sections that are inaccessible to the public.

Old service corridors, unstable areas, flooded passages.

Special permits were required.

But when a person goes missing, all restrictions are lifted.

It was on this day that the first important discovery was made.

Speliologist Jessica Raymond exploring an old service corridor off Gothic Avenue discovered a backpack.

It was a dark blue North Face backpack containing a bottle of water, energy bars, a jacket, and a wallet with a driver’s license in the name of Ethan Reynolds.

The backpack was located at the fork of two passages, one leading back to the historic tour, the other leading deeper into the old service area, which was closed off by a gate with a sign reading, “No entry, staff only.

” The gate was open.

The lock was hanging on its hinge, unlocked.

Jessica immediately reported the find.

Ranger Drake arrived at the scene with his team.

They carefully examined the backpack, photographed the location, and documented it.

The backpack was neatly placed against the wall and did not appear to have been abandoned in a panic.

The contents were intact.

Why did Ethan leave the backpack? Did he plan to return for it? Drake decided to investigate the passage behind the great.

A team of five, including Jessica and Drake, entered the old service area.

The passage was narrow and low, requiring them to crouch down.

The walls were damp, and the floor was covered with a layer of clay mud.

It was clear that no staff had been here for a long time.

After 50 m, they found traces.

There were distinct bootprints on the clay floor, two different treads.

One set of footprints led deeper into the passageway.

The second set of footprints was strange.

They were drag marks as if someone had been dragging something heavy.

Two parallel grooves with bootprints between them, as if one person was dragging another.

Jessica photographed the footprints.

Drake felt uneasy.

This didn’t look like a lost tourist.

It looked like violence.

The team continued on, following the drag marks.

The passage widened, leading into an old service hall, a room about 5 by 8 m in size with a low ceiling, remnants of old wooden crates in the corner, and rusty hooks on the walls.

It was an old storage area used decades ago when the cave was being explored and tourist routes were being expanded.

Now the area was abandoned.

The drag marks ended in the center of the hall.

There was no obvious passage beyond, only a stone wall with a ledge.

The team searched the hall, checked every corner, but Ethan was nowhere to be found.

The hall was empty.

By the end of the fourth day, June 25th, the mood was gloomy.

The backpack, the drag marks, everything pointed to something happening to Ethan.

But where was he? The search continued.

Days turned into weeks.

Teams worked 12 hours a day exploring dozens of kilometers of passages.

The media began to cover the story.

Young man missing in Mammoth Cave.

Search continues for Seventh Day.

The family was notified.

A distant relative, the brother’s uncle Mark Reynolds, arrived from Indianapolis demanding answers.

Lucas stayed at the hotel formally assisting with the search, answering questions.

But with each passing day, the rangers became more and more suspicious that his story was not complete.

Drake questioned Lucas several times, asking him to clarify details, but Lucas stuck to his version.

They had separated by accident.

He had gotten lost, gone outside, and expected to find Ethan outside.

On the 10th day, July 1st, the police joined the investigation.

Edmonson County Detective Robert Mills, who specialized in missing person’s cases, began a parallel investigation.

He officially questioned Lucas, recorded his testimony, checked his alibi, and examined the brother’s financial situation.

What he discovered reinforced his suspicions.

Detective Mills discovered that three weeks before the disappearance, Lucas had Googled the phrases, “How long can a person live without water?” closed areas of Mammoth Cave and old cave service areas.

The browser history was saved on his laptop, which the detective seized with Lucas’s permission.

Lucas explained that he was just interested in hiking and planning for safety.

The explanation was weak.

On July 7th, the 15th day of the search, there was a breakthrough.

A volunteer speliologist named Alan Gray, a 37-year-old experienced cave explorer, decided to check the old service hall again, where the drag marks ended.

Allan felt that something had been overlooked.

He returned there alone with a powerful flashlight and the determination to check every inch.

Allan methodically examined the walls, floor, and ceiling.

He checked the wooden boxes in the corner, empty, rotten.

He checked the hooks on the walls, old, rusty, nothing hanging from them.

Then he approached a stone ledge at the far wall.

The ledge was about a meter high, a meter and a half wide, and looked like a natural rock formation.

Allan moved closer and shown his flashlight behind the ledge.

Behind the ledge was a crack.

A narrow vertical crack in the rock about 40 cm wide, enough for a person to squeeze through.

Allan squeezed sideways and entered the crack.

It turned out to be the entrance to a tiny chamber hidden behind the ledge.

The chamber was about 2×3 m in size and about 1 and 1/2 m high.

And there in the corner of the chamber, behind a rusty iron grate, Allan saw a man.

Ethan Reynolds was lying on the stone floor, curled up in a ball, almost motionless.

He was thin, dehydrated, his face sunken, his lips cracked.

His clothes were dirty and torn.

An empty plastic bottle lay next to him.

Allan froze in shock for a second, then rushed to the bars.

They were locked with a massive old lock, rusty but functional.

The iron cage, obviously used decades ago to store equipment or tools, now served as a prison.

Allan shouted, “Ethan! Ethan, can you hear me?” Ethan slowly opened his eyes and looked at Allan.

His gaze was cloudy, disoriented.

He tried to speak, but only a horse sound came out of his throat.

Allan immediately took out his radio and called for help.

Drake, Jessica, anyone on the line? I found him.

Ethan’s alive.

Old service hall behind the stone ledge.

Bring bolt cutters, water, medicine quickly.

12 minutes later, the longest 12 minutes of Allen’s life.

Ranger Drake, Jessica, and three other searchers with medical equipment burst into the cell.

They brought bolt cutters and began cutting the lock and bars.

The old iron was difficult to cut, but after 5 minutes, the passage was wide enough.

Two men squeezed into the cage and carefully lifted Ethan out.

Paramedic Susan Hill, who was part of the search team, began an immediate examination.

His pulse was weak, about 50 beats per minute.

His blood pressure was low.

He was severely dehydrated.

There were signs of hypothermia.

The temperature in the cave was about 54 degrees Fahrenheit.

Ethan had spent 15 days there.

Broken rib.

Ethan groaned when he was moved.

Susan began administering saline solution through an IV and wrapped Ethan in a thermal blanket.

While the medics stabilized Ethan, Ranger Drake examined the cage in the camera.

The lock was old but deliberately closed.

There was no key inside the cage.

Besides an empty bottle, there was another small plastic bottle half full, probably the minimum amount of water that allowed Ethan to survive for 15 days.

A small flashlight was also found, dead, no food, only water.

There were scratches on the floor of the cage, traces of Ethan’s attempts to escape.

He had scratched the iron bars and tried to shake the lock.

His fingernails were broken, his fingers bruised.

He had fought for his life.

Ethan was carried out of the cave on a stretcher.

The operation took 2 hours.

The passages were narrow and the stretcher had to be tilted and squeezed through.

Finally, around 6:00 in the evening on July 7th, Ethan Reynolds saw daylight for the first time in 15 days.

An ambulance was waiting at the entrance.

He was immediately loaded into it and taken to the cavern’s medical center hospital in the neighboring town of Horseshoe Cave.

At the hospital, Ethan was hooked up to life support systems, rehydrated and stabilized.

Doctors diagnosed him with critical dehydration, exhaustion, a broken seventh rib on his right side, mild hypothermia, and multiple abrasions and scratches.

But he was alive.

His doctor, Dr.Helen Carter, later said, “It’s a miracle he survived 15 days in a cold, damp cave with minimal water and no food.

The human body is incredibly resilient, but he was close to his limit.

A few more days and the outcome would have been fatal.

” Around 8:00 p.m., Ethan regained enough consciousness to speak.

Ranger Drake and Detective Mills were in the room waiting for an opportunity to ask questions.

Dr.Carter allowed a brief conversation.

5 minutes no more.

He’s very weak.

Mills approached the bed and leaned over.

Ethan, my name is Detective Robert Mills.

You’re safe.

Can you tell me what happened? Ethan looked at him, his eyes filled with tears.

He whispered horarssely, barely audibly.

“Lucas did it.

He wanted me gone.

” Silence fell over the room.

Mills exchanged glances with Drake.

“Your brother? Lucas did this to you?” Ethan nodded, tears streaming down his cheeks.

“He he locked me up, left me there, said I deserved it.

” Mills took out a tape recorder and turned on the recording.

Ethan, I’m recording your testimony if you’ll allow me.

Can you tell me what happened in the cave on June 22nd? Ethan closed his eyes, gathered his strength, and began to speak.

The story Ethan told was one of betrayal and a calculated attempt at murder.

According to his testimony, it all started when they fell behind the tour group in the Gothic Avenue area.

Lucas said he wanted to talk to me alone, about the will, about the money.

I agreed.

We fell behind the group and went into a side passage.

Lucas started saying that my father’s will was unfair, that he deserved an equal share.

I tried to explain that it wasn’t my decision, that I was willing to help him financially, to share, but he was angry.

He shouted that I had always been the favorite, that my parents had never given him a chance.

Then he said something strange.

He said, “If it weren’t for you, everything would be mine.

” I laughed, thinking he was joking, but he wasn’t joking.

He hit me.

He just suddenly punched me in the side.

I fell.

I didn’t expect it.

The pain was intense.

I broke a rib.

I realized later I was lying on the ground and Lucas was standing over me saying, “I’m sorry, brother, but I need this money and you’re getting in the way.

” He grabbed my arms and started dragging me.

I tried to resist, but the pain in my rib was unbearable.

I couldn’t breathe properly.

He dragged me through the corridors.

I don’t know for how long.

Then we came to a gate with a lock.

He took bolt cutters out of his backpack.

He had brought them with him on purpose.

Cut the lock and opened the gate.

He dragged me further into some kind of hall, then behind a stone ledge into a small cell with a cage.

He pushed me into the cage, closed the gate, and put a new lock on it.

He had a new lock with him.

He had planned everything.

He left me two small bottles of water, only a liter and a half in total.

I screamed and begged him to let me go.

He just looked at me.

Then he said, “They’ll say you got lost.

Lost and died somewhere in a cave.

They’ll never find you here and I’ll get all the inheritance.

I’m sorry, Ethan, but this is the only way.

” He left.

He took my backpack and left it somewhere else to throw off the searchers.

I was left alone in the dark, in the cold.

I screamed until my voice gave out.

No one heard me.

Too deep.

Too far from the main trails.

I tried to get out.

I shook the bars, scratched at the lock.

Nothing worked.

I ran out of water on the fifth day.

I thought I was going to die.

Every day I thought I was going to die.

But some part of me refused to give up.

I conserved my strength, lay still, tried to save my energy.

I lost track of the days.

I don’t know how long it was.

Then there was a light, a voice.

Allan, he found me.

Ethan finished speaking, completely exhausted.

Dr.Carter interrupted.

That’s enough.

He needs to rest.

Mills turned off the recorder.

He had what he needed, a direct accusation.

The victim’s testimony.

Now he needed evidence.

On the evening of July 7th, 2 hours after Ethan’s testimony, Detective Mills obtained an arrest warrant for Lucas Reynolds.

The charges were attempted murder and unlawful imprisonment.

Mills and two officers arrived at the hotel where Lucas was staying.

When they knocked on the door, Lucas opened it.

Mills later described, “His face changed instantly when he saw us.

He turned pale.

He knew.

” I said, “Lucas Reynolds, you are under arrest on suspicion of the attempted murder of Ethan Reynolds.

” He did not resist.

He just lowered his head and held out his hands.

We handcuffed him, read him his rights, and took him away.

At the police station, Lucas was placed in a holding cell.

The next morning, July 8th, the first interrogation took place.

Present were Detective Mills, Edmonson County District Attorney James Harper, and Lucas’s attorney, Courtappointed Defense Attorney David Samuels.

Mills began, “Lucas, your brother’s alive.

We found him.

He told us what you did.

” Lucas remained silent, staring at the table.

Mills continued.

He says you attacked him, broke his rib, dragged him into a restricted area of the cave, locked him in a cage, and left him to die.

Is that true? Lucas finally spoke quietly.

I want a lawyer.

Samuels interjected.

You have a lawyer.

I’m here, but you don’t have to answer.

Lucas looked at the lawyer, then at Mills.

I just left.

We had a fight and I left.

I didn’t lock him up.

Mills placed the photos on the table.

Drag marks.

Ethan’s backpack.

The cage with the lock.

Then explain this evidence.

The drag marks.

Your brother’s backpack left at the entrance to the restricted area.

The cage with a lock that was locked from the outside.

Your brother couldn’t have locked himself in.

Lucas was silent.

The interrogation lasted two hours.

Lucas refused to admit guilt, sticking to the story that they had simply quarreled and gone their separate ways.

But his story did not explain the evidence.

It did not explain why Ethan was in a locked cage.

It did not explain the drag marks.

It did not explain Ethan’s testimony.

Over the next few weeks, Detective Mills and Prosecutor Harper gathered evidence for the trial.

It was a serious case and they needed an irrefutable evidence base.

The first key piece of evidence was fingerprints.

Forensic scientists examined the lock on the cage where Ethan was held.

Partial prints were found on the lock, sufficient for identification.

They belong to Lucas Reynolds.

His prints were on the lock that secured the cage.

Lucas could not explain how his prince got there if, as he claimed, he had never entered that cell.

The second piece of evidence was the tools in Lucas’s car.

When the police searched his car, an old Honda Civic parked in the hotel parking lot, they found bolt cutters in the trunk.

The same bolt cutters purchased on June 19th at a hardware store.

They showed signs of recent use, scratches, traces of rust.

Forensic analysis showed that the scratches and metal residue matched the old grate at the entrance to the restricted service area where Ethan’s backpack was found.

Lucas used these bolt cutters to cut the lock on the grate and gain access to the restricted area.

The third piece of evidence was a map.

A detailed map of the Mammoth Cave cave system, including the service areas, was found in Lucas’s car.

The map had notes made in pen, a circle around the old service hall where Ethan was ultimately held and arrows indicating the route from Gothic Avenue to that hall.

Lucas had planned the route in advance.

He knew where to take his brother.

The fourth piece of evidence was browser history and purchases.

Detectives seized Lucas’s laptop and phone and checked all his digital activity.

They found Google searches 3 weeks before the trip.

How long can a person live without water? Answer.

3 to 5 days.

Closed areas of Mammoth Cave.

Old service rooms.

Inheritance upon brother’s death.

Purchases.

Bolt cutters.

Flashlight.

Rope.

Cave map.

Visit to the library to study archival materials about the cave.

All of this pointed to planning.

This was not a spontaneous crime in a fit of rage.

It was a cold, calculated crime planned weeks in advance.

The fifth piece of evidence was witness testimony.

Ranger Emily Carter, who was working at the cave entrance on June 20th, recalled that Lucas was talkative, smiling, joking.

This contrasted with his subsequent claim that he was upset and frightened when he lost his brother.

Guidemark Henderson recalled that the brothers had fallen behind the group in the Gothic Avenue area, but did not notice any conflict between them.

However, tourist Sandra Lewis, a member of that tour group, recalled, “I saw the twins standing apart, and they seemed to be arguing about something.

One looked tense.

” The sixth piece of evidence was financial motive.

Detectives examined the brother’s financial situation.

Ethan, stable income from the family business, about $120,000 a year, savings of $350,000, real estate.

Lucas, irregular work as a bartender, credit card debt of $18,000, savings of less than $20,000, no real estate.

If Ethan dies without a will and without children, their parents entire estate goes to Lucas as the sole surviving heir.

The motive is obvious, about $3 million.

The seventh piece of evidence was medical evidence.

Ethan’s medical examination confirmed a broken rib consistent with a blow, not a fall.

Medical expert Dr.

Steven Wright, testified, “The nature of the fracture, a horizontal break in the seventh rib on the right side, is consistent with a direct blow with a blunt object or fist with considerable force.

This is not an injury from a fall or accidental blow against a rock.

This is a deliberate blow.

All the evidence together formed an irrefutable picture.

Lucas Reynolds planned and attempted to murder his own brother, motivated by greed and envy.

Lucas Reynolds is serving his sentence at the Kentucky Correctional Facility in Ederville.

As of 2026, he has spent 12 years in prison.

He is eligible for parole in 2039 when he will be 48 years old.

According to the Department of Corrections, Lucas works in the prison library, has no disciplinary record, and has completed several rehabilitation programs.