Hard Times and a Killing in Kentucky's Coal Country.

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- The last good person to see Dradrick Fleming that Wednesday evening was his stepfather, who pointed him to a parking place outside the Neon Church of Christ, where his favorite uncle lay in his coffin. But Mr. Fleming, 34, never showed up at the visitation or, for that matter, at the funeral the next day, his cellphone ringing unanswered, his brand new red Silverado pickup nowhere to be seen. And when they got up to the graveyard, his mother, Cathy Bentley, turned to her younger boy, Aftan, and said, ''Son, you've got to take me home, because I can't find your brother.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]