The mortal son of a woman whom Caleb Cole stole when the boy was eight. Cole said that he had been with Joshua's mother from the time that the boy was three. That they had been a real family. They settled in a remote area, but when she died of pneumonia, Caleb blamed the doctors for her death, and took Joshua with him to the mountains in the Pacific northwest where they lived a primitive and paranoid existence. They lived off the land, later accepting a third member of their small society, Eddie Doyle, "...a boon companions along for the pure hell of it." In 1992, a pair of deputies sent to serve a warrant for poaching deer, never returned from their camp. The three were then posted as being wanted for murder from that point. A year later, Tessa was in the mountains, and was taken by them.