Let's not forget in this discussion who is responsible for seeking out and believing such information. That would be the parents. Making them into victims does not gain them anything.
In my salty view of "you create all your experience": the parents can choose (rather unconsciously) to hear their son is dead in order to give them some space from the grieving process, so they can get on with life and get something moving. I am assuming everything in their lives was at a stand still, at least emotionally, while looking for their son.
The parents, now having created space, allowing what is to be, do have the chance to create a different experience, and now chose (unconsciously again) to find their son.
Now.... it is entirely possible that at the moment the reading was given to the parents, the son
was dead. And then years later, with the help of some emotional movement and magic, the son is now alive.
(I realize I'm using the passage of time when I say "years later", but that really doesn't exist in the now. I'm just using that for reference to the news story. Is it really that far out that we can kill someone off in our reality and then bring them back in a different moment? For the parents the possibility was always there for finding their son, since his body was never found. And the only way to explain this seemingly linear track of events is to say Sylvia was wrong. Just offering another perspective to this discussion. 
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