Parental Regret?
What strikes me about this ending is that the parents obviously have been trying to protect their son - whether they believed him innocent or not we don't know - but in doing so very well may have contributed to his death. If they had encouraged him to turn himself in and he did so, he would still be alive to face trial and likely jail time, but he WOULD likely be alive. Complicit to his hiding, yes, but also to his demise. This is just a sad ending all around.
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