Rodger’s parents begin searching for him after his mother, Li Chin Rodger, receives his e-mailed manifesto. She first visits his YouTube page, where he often posts videos about himself, and views the video he has just posted describing his intent to carry out a massacre on the UCSB campus. She alerts his father, her ex-husband Peter, and the two drive separately to Santa Barbara to search for him. They are unable to find him.