NM NM - Barry James Kephart, 11, Albuquerque, 22 Aug 1981

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Barry James Kephart
Missing since August 22, 1981 from Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics Date Of Birth: July 15, 1970
Age at Time of Disappearance: 11 years old Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'5; 60 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Brown hair; blue eyes.
AKA: Bucky
Circumstances of Disappearance
Kephart left a note for his family at their home on the day disappeared, which stated he was going to a friend's house. Kephart was never seen or heard from again.
In August 2006, Albuquerque police concluded that Bucky was murdered by his parents. According to the final report, Bucky was beaten and killed by his parents, and his remains was disposed of.
His sister says that the boy wouldn't have written a note for his parents because he was dyslexic. She also recalls hearing her parents beating Bucky the night before he disappeared. His mother died in 2005, and his father will never face any charges because the statute of limitations for murder in 1981 was 15 years, a deadline that lapsed in 1996. The father claims he's innocent, and blames any child abuse on his dead wife.

http://www.doenetwork.org/
 
Exactly. If you get away with it for so long you can basically hold your hands up and admit it. Nothing will happen to you!
 
Their laws are sure different then ours are. I wonder if that law has changed now but still applys from back then? So is the dad saying that the mom murdered the little boy? I really hate it when a murderer can't be tried and sent to prison. Do the kids say that their mother was abusive too or just the dad? When that man dies he will go straight to hell with no stops on the way.
Maybe him and the wife will be reunited then :mad:
 
The story from Bucky's sister's point of view:

"She hears the crying, the thud-thud-thud of metal on flesh, and she can imagine the whupping her younger brother, Bucky, is getting at the end of her father's brass belt buckle in another room during another night of liquored-up rage, another night when she is told shut up, stay in your room or you'll get some, too.

But as bad as those screams are, Beverly Kephart says the sound that haunts her even more is the silence when the screams stop.....

...One day, she says she hopes to bury her brother with dignity. And if criminal charges against her father aren't possible, she says she hopes he will one day admit what happened to Bucky.

Maybe then the screams will end and the silence will not be something to fear."

http://25missingpersons.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=missing1981&action=display&thread=904

Praying for peace for Bucky and his sister
 
Bump

Bucky has been missing 29 years today. Come home soon.
 
I had no idea there was a statute of limitations for murder back then. I hope one day his sister can lay her brother to rest in peace.
 
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Name: Barry James Kephart
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: August 22, 1981
Location Last Seen: Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Physical Description
Date of Birth: July 15, 1970
Age: 11 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 4'5"
Weight: 60 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance
According to his parents, Kephart left a note for his family at their home on the day disappeared, which stated he was going to a friend's house.

In August 2006, Albuquerque police concluded that Bucky was murdered by his parents. According to the final report, Bucky was beaten and killed by his parents, and his remains was disposed of. His body may have been tossed in a Dumpster near the family's apartment at 329 Texas Street S.E. It may rest now under the Journal Pavilion, a landfill at the time. Few expect it will ever be found.

His sister says that the boy wouldn't have written a note for his parents because he was dyslexic. She also recalls hearing her parents beating Bucky the night before he disappeared. And then the next morning Bucky was gone.

His mother died in 2005, and his father will never face any charges because the statute of limitations for murder in 1981 was 15 years, a deadline that lapsed in 1996. The father claims he's innocent, and blames any child abuse on his dead wife. He also claims to not remember anything about the night Bucky disappeared. Bucky was the only son and the youngest of four children.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Albuquerque Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Detective Rich Lewis
Agency Phone Number: 505-768-2300
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 810053819
NCIC Case Number: M-090322203
NamUs Case Number: 8907
NCMEC Case Number: 778439

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NCMEC
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Journal Pavilion? With family in New Mexico, I remember when that was built.

Creepy.

New Mexico is an interesting place.
 

 

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