Joshua Cassen was the son of Elizabeth and Robert Cassen. He had one brother, Charles Cassen, who later renamed himself Bobby Marsino , and one sister Ashley Williams. Nikki Newman started to have horrible flashbacks to accidentally shooting Joshua when she was a five year old. With Paul Williams' investigative help, Nikki recalled herself at five years old, and her best friend, Joshua, fighting over her father's gun, the gun going off and Joshua being shot. Apparently Nick Reed had buried the body behind the paint factory, and Nikki had blocked out the memory all those years until the skeleton was found. Nikki became obsessed with finding Joshua's younger brother Charles "Charlie" Robert Cassen, once Paul told her the family had moved away to Cleveland, never knowing what happened to thei