The mother of 20-year-old missing Auburn University student James Weston Higginbotham posted on Facebook that a group of search and rescue volunteers had found her son’s body in a mountainous area outside Kyoto, Japan. Anna Coren reports.
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Body of missing Alabama student found in Japan, his mother says
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