In the novella "The Body," the friends go to see the body of Ray Brower.
Ray Brower is a missing boy from Castle Rock, Maine, who was struck by a train. Four twelve-year-olds—Gordie LaChance, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio—learn that a local gang has discovered the body but has not reported it because the gang members were driving a stolen car.
The boys decide to find Brower themselves, hoping that becoming the people who officially discover him will make them famous. Their trek along the railroad tracks becomes the story’s central coming-of-age journey, confronting them with danger, death, family trauma, and the painful limits of childhood friendship.
The Body was published in King’s 1982 collection Different Seasons. It was adapted into the 1986 film Stand by Me, which uses the same characters and basic premise. The wrong options are all names of the living boys: Teddy Duchamp and Chris Chambers are two members of Gordie’s group, while Denny Lachance is Gordie’s deceased older brother, not the missing boy.