Friends and family of Taylor Samson are urging people to come forward with information that may help police find his body.
Samson was a third-year physics student at Dalhousie University. His lifelong friend, Ryan Wilson, says he loved to play guitar and baseball.
“When he laughed it sounded like a truck going by,” he says. “It started here and came all the way up, it's just like a roar.”
Wilson met Samson on the ball field when they were 12 years old.
“We had our ups and downs,” he says. “I don’t know what it was. We just kind of grew together.”
By the time they were teenagers, they were inseparable.
“I can't remember a weekend where he wasn't at my house, or I wasn't at his house, or we weren't together doing something,” says Wilson.
Wilson is now going to school in Ontario. He arrived home in Nova Scotia in the middle of the night after learning his childhood friend had been murdered.
“He would do anything for anybody at any time of the day or night, wouldn't matter what it was, he was there,” he says.
Friends and family still do not want to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Police say they didn't receive many tips over the weekend, and they're still hoping to speak with anyone who may have seen anything suspicious in the early morning hours Sunday, Aug.16.
Police say finding Samson's body is a top priority for police and the people who knew him.
“It just needs to happen,” says Wilson. “Nobody's going to be able to move on and accept anything until they find him.”
“Nobody cares what it is, or how big or small it is. Just tell them.”
Wilson says Samson is remembered as an intelligent man who worked hard for everything he achieved.
“If you were his friend he didn't expect anything out of you,” he says. “You didn't need to have a car, you didn't need to have a lot of money you didn't need to do things for him – you just needed to be his friend.”
Plans are underway for a benefit for Samson’s family in his hometown of Amherst Friday night.
With files from CTV Atlantic’s Kayla Hounsell.
