Without Aaron and Sally Goldman gone, it seemed that Surfside residents wouldn’t get the answer to the decades-long mystery that has plagued their town. That all changed in March 2012 when five Surfside residents decided to take matters into their own hands and seek justice for Danny Goldman, as reported by Surfside Kidnapping. Harvey Lisker, David and Joseph Graubart, Anthony Blate, and former Surfside Mayor Paul Novack looked into the details of the case in hopes of getting an answer. Four of the five mentioned attended the same school as Goldman, and three of them personally knew him.

“We did a deep dive into every detail, every person, every event. We did not limit ourselves to Danny’s case. We looked at the entire context of the times,” Novack said in an interview with Oxygen. Each member of the group voluntarily dedicated their time going through pieces of evidence and crucial information. “It was like a humongous onion. You just had to keep peeling and peeling to get to the center,” said Novack (via NBC Miami). When Sally died, she left a box of documents containing details of Danny’s case. Novack and the team went through them, and with the help of friends and former cops, they were able to piece together the events behind Danny’s kidnapping.