Paris Hoisington, 31, and her daughter Josie Law, 11, point to the area on Cortez Beach in Manatee County where the girl found a message in a bottle on Sunday (Spectrum News/Josh Rojas).

On June 9, 1998, Brent Poole and his wife, Kimberly Renee Poole, took a late night stroll along Myrtle Beach.