Jamie Griffin

A Joppatowne mother of four says she feels "honored" that Jamie Griffin's parents used the words she placed anonymously on a sign two years ago for a memorial stone where the youth's body was found in the Gunpowder Falls State Park.The search for the Dulaney High School senior was still under way in 1983, when Shari Beth Baldwin, 38, moved to Joppatowne and began weekly walks in the woods there. During the walks, she told her children about the missing 17-year-old pianist, warning them to be careful.

The parents of James R. "Jamie" Griffin still visit the woods in the Gunpowder Falls State Park where his body was found in 1990, eight years after their only child disappeared.Others also have made this pilgrimage, and have left tokens in remembrance of the gifted, 17-year-old pianist who was killed in 1982, just before his graduation from Dulaney High School.Somebody even left a neatly painted sign that reads: "May the legend of Jamie Griffin live forever in the hearts and minds of all who enter the Gunpowder River."