WA WA - David Adams, 8, Issaquah, 3 May 1968

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Thecurethetop666 said:
Hi all, I know this thread has been quiet for a minute but I just recently learned of this case and that the person of interest is now a resident of Lewis County. I live in Centralia and was just curious of the person’s name/last name. It’s a pretty small community!
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BUMP - TCTT666 did you ever get your answer? If anyone knows POI name please post.
 
Coming back here after a long break.

Someone asked if I had known the POI. No, I didn't know him. I didn't know many of the families on David's street unless they had kids my age, and I knew them from school. I attended the same church as the Adams, and Don, David's father, was a leader in my boy scout troop. David's older brother, Steven, was a friend. I remember Jill, who would have been about 6 years old at the time.

I did come across something on another forum from someone who grew up on the same street the Adams lived on. He described the POI as having done a tour of duty in Viet Nam, and coming home with PTSD. Apparently, he was known to be a bit creepy, but I don't have any first hand knowledge of him.
 
sbryce said:
Coming back here after a long break.

Someone asked if I had known the POI. No, I didn't know him. I didn't know many of the families on David's street unless they had kids my age, and I knew them from school. I attended the same church as the Adams, and Don, David's father, was a leader in my boy scout troop. David's older brother, Steven, was a friend. I remember Jill, who would have been about 6 years old at the time.

I did come across something on another forum from someone who grew up on the same street the Adams lived on. He described the POI as having done a tour of duty in Viet Nam, and coming home with PTSD. Apparently, he was known to be a bit creepy, but I don't have any first hand knowledge of him.
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Glad you're back @sbryce. Do I understand the POI was a neighbor on the Adam's street? Could you point out the parcel/house on a map? ... And just curious, does your family all agree on abduction theory or do they have other suspicions? That must've been a sad, trying, confusing time for your whole fam. Thanks for sharing, P4YT
 
I don't know which house the POI lived in. I also have not discussed this with my family to any great extent. I do know that when the cold case task force was created about 10 years ago, they interviewed my brother, since he would have been the last person to see David before he disappeared.

Think about this. The news reports say that there were over 1000 volunteers searching for David for several weeks. If 1000 people stood shoulder to shoulder, they would form a line more than 1/4 mile wide. If these hypothetical volunteers stood shoulder to shoulder along the street that David lived on (240th Ave SE), they would form a line from Tiger Mountain Road to a point in the woods well beyond the north end of our property. If they walked shoulder to shoulder from 240th to 242nd, they would cover every square foot of area between our house and David's house, as well as the surrounding forest, in less than an hour.

But it didn't happen that way. Let's say there was an average of 100 volunteers at any one time. It would take them about 10 hours to cover the same ground. If they made use of as much daylight as possible, they could cover this area 1 1/2 times in one day. If this continued for 2 weeks, they would cover the entire area, as well as the surrounding forest, at least 20 times.

David did not get lost on his way home. He would have been found. He was abducted.
 
sbryce said:
Coming back here after a long break.

Someone asked if I had known the POI. No, I didn't know him. I didn't know many of the families on David's street unless they had kids my age, and I knew them from school. I attended the same church as the Adams, and Don, David's father, was a leader in my boy scout troop. David's older brother, Steven, was a friend. I remember Jill, who would have been about 6 years old at the time.

I did come across something on another forum from someone who grew up on the same street the Adams lived on. He described the POI as having done a tour of duty in Viet Nam, and coming home with PTSD. Apparently, he was known to be a bit creepy, but I don't have any first hand knowledge of him.
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Hello again @sbryce , would you recall the forum this POI was discussed in?
 
Such a sad case. Did they ever use modern technology to look underneath the "suspected" cement patio?

Editing post because the above-linked article does say there was a POI.

It does sound like David was abducted, and my heart goes out to his family.
 
Jillpillrn said:
Almost nothing but the name is correct in the above posting by TRU ROSE.
David Adams was 8 years old. He was walking home from a friends house. A search began within hours and included literally thousands of people. The characters and conversations listed above are fictional.
The alleged "hero" to my knowledge never existed. If he is an actual person he was one of thousands of volunteer and professional searchers that stayed up all night searching for David.
As for the details given almost nothing is accurate. NOTHING was found of David, no shoe, nothing.
The possible explainations given are laughable. 15-mile creek is a foot deep or less, even with Spring run off. The idea that an 8 year old drowned, was washed away and never found? Doesn't take a slueth to see holes in that theory.
Quicksand? again doesn't take a slueth. Have you EVER heard of a real person swallowed by quicksand while they dozed off on a patch of sand?
Bears, cougars, etc drag people off a few hundred yards at best. They don't completely devour humans including clothing and blood, and they don't burry them so that in forty years they are never found.
I am David's sister. There were 5 siblings that attended Clark elementary beginning in Kindergarden through 6th grade. We all graduated from Issaquah High School, our family never moved back to Bellevue. No such plaque or trees ever existed to our knowledge.
As for some of the questions asked above. My dad was a fighter pilot in the Air Force. He had been reactivated to go to Vietnam when my brother went missing (May 3rd 1968, not March 1969). He was able to return for several weeks during the search (the search was not four days as mentioned) but had to return to his Military duties. Thus perhaps little mention of him in newspaper accounts.
This case has been reopened by a cold case team through the King County cold case task force in Washington State. If you have information reguarding what can only be explained as a child abduction please contact detective Tompkins of the task force.
I will assume that time has fogged the memory of Tru Rose and that the flair for creativity was not meant to be deceiving, however the story recounted by her will not help to solve my brothers disappearance.
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Hi Jill,

I am so sorry for your loss. Are you willing to talk? I am a victim’s advocate and live on Tiger Mountain. I run on the neighborhood streets and trails almost every day and would like to help.

I hope you are having a good weekend. Please message me if you are open to talking

David
 
sbryce said:
Coming back here after a long break.

Someone asked if I had known the POI. No, I didn't know him. I didn't know many of the families on David's street unless they had kids my age, and I knew them from school. I attended the same church as the Adams, and Don, David's father, was a leader in my boy scout troop. David's older brother, Steven, was a friend. I remember Jill, who would have been about 6 years old at the time.

I did come across something on another forum from someone who grew up on the same street the Adams lived on. He described the POI as having done a tour of duty in Viet Nam, and coming home with PTSD. Apparently, he was known to be a bit creepy, but I don't have any first hand
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crhedBngr said:
Bump for David
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sbryce said:
If you read news reports of the disappearance of David Adams, you will read that David was walking home from a friends house. That friend was my younger brother. My brother would have been the last person to see him before he disappeared. I was standing nearby saying goodbye.

I just thought I would clarify some things. I was 9 years old that the time, and my memory may be fuzzy, but there are some things I can remember quite well. Jill and Rob have done a great job telling their stories, but not all of the details are quite right, and Jill makes reference to some things that Tru Rose got wrong.

David was not hiking on Tiger Mountain when he disappeared. He was walking home from my familys house, which is off of Tiger Mountain Road, so named because it runs near the base of the mountain.

There were stories of David walking out to Tiger Mountain Road, meeting a girlfriend there, and running away. The stories were never verified, and they seem highly unlikely, especially for an 8 year old boy. Where would he have gone? How would he have traveled without being seen? How would he have supported himself? Why did no girlfriend ever speak up? No young girls in the area disappeared at the same time, so he definitely was not traveling with a local girlfriend.

David could not have drowned in 15 mile creek and his body washed away. As Jill pointed out, the water was less than a foot deep. Even during the spring runoff there was not enough current to wash a body away. The bridge David crossed to get home was wide enough to accommodate a truck, so it is doubtful that he would have fallen off. The only traffic that crossed the bridge was my family, or visitors, and neither was using the road at that time, so there was no reason for him not to walk right down the center of the bridge. If he had fallen into the creek, his body would have been found. The creek was a very popular place for neighborhood kids to play.

If a body could have washed down the creek, it would have passed through several back yards, into Issaquah Creek, and through the downtown area. Assuming it could have made it past the salmon hatchery, where the water is diverted into the ponds, it would have eventually wound up in Lake Sammamish, where it would have been found, had it not been found long before it got that far.

My brother and I explored every square inch of the forest while we lived there. There was no quicksand anywhere. Some of the area near the creek was marshy, but those areas were not on his route home, and had he gotten lost there, the search dogs would have found him. We never found any coal mine shafts in the area. There was an old well near the Adamss house, but had he fallen in, he would have been found. It was Davids older brother who showed me where the well was.

Our house was not within sight of the Adamss house. David would need to walk almost 1/4 to get home. Most of that is along roads, and the rest cross country for a short distance and along two short trails. Or he could have taken a slightly longer route that would be almost entirely road walking. He did take the first short trail that bypassed our driveway and took him to the road down near the creek. News reports say that my brother walked with him down to the bridge, but I dont remember seeing him go farther than the start of the first trail.

If David had lost his way or gotten hurt in the forest, he would have been found. The only difficult part of the route was finding the second trail that would take him from our road to his. Had he found the trail, someone in my family would have found him within a day or two, as we used it all the time on our way to and from the school bus stop. If he had missed the trail, he would have wound up in someones back yard. He would not have been found by hikers. The area where he got lost was privately owned lots. He would have been found by the search dogs, or by a neighborhood kid playing in the woods.

Just to give you a mental picture: Tiger Mountain Road runs roughly east/west. 240[SUP]th[/SUP] (the road that the Adamss lived on) runs north off of Tiger mountain road. I believe the Adamss house was the third house from the corner. My family lived on 241[SUP]st[/SUP], which was a private dirt road also running north off of Tiger Mountain Road. There were three families living along 241[SUP]st[/SUP]. (Maybe two. I dont remember if the third house had been built yet.) Our house was the farthest from Tiger Mountain Road, about 1/4 mile as one drives down 241[SUP]st [/SUP]and down our driveway. There was a short trail that one could take from 241[SUP]st[/SUP] to our house that shortened that distance slightly by bypassing the driveway.

David walked down this trail, which would have taken him to 241[SUP]st[/SUP] just above the bridge over the creek. After crossing the bridge, he would follow 241[SUP]st[/SUP] up the hill on the other side. When the road leveled off, he had two ways to get home. He could follow 241[SUP]st[/SUP] out to Tiger Mountain Road, then walk along Tiger Mountain Road to 240[SUP]th[/SUP], or he could look for a break in the trees that indicated a trail that would take him across an undeveloped lot to 240[SUP]th[/SUP]. The land along 241[SUP]st[/SUP] in the area of the trail was mostly cleared of trees, possibly to accommodate horses. This would require a short cross country walk through brush to reach the more heavily treed area along 240[SUP]th[/SUP]. The trail would take him through the trees to 240[SUP]th[/SUP]. Then he would walk along 240[SUP]th[/SUP] to his home.

There really wasnt any way to get lost, and certainly not in any place where searchers would not find him, or neighborhood kids or developers would not eventually run across a body.

To clarify some questions that were asked on another forum:

David was seen leaving our house by myself, my brother and my father, who was watching from a kitchen window. As far as I know, there were no other witnesses. Unless my brother accompanied him down to the creek, and I dont remember him doing so, there is no way of verifying that he even made it as far as the end of the trail down to the road near the creek. The searches started from our house, so the dogs would have been following a scent trail that originated from our house. If several of the dogs followed Davids scent to a particular neighbors house, it is very likely that it is because David took that route, though dogs are known to pick up scents other than the person they are searching for. The dogs were trained German Shepherd search dogs that were handled by volunteers working closely with the King County Sherriffs department. The volunteers were all members of The German Shepherd Search Dogs of Washington State
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Sbryce,

I firmly believe something happened at or around your property. I routinely run, walk or drive on these streets twice per day and have for many years. David would have been found very quickly if he walked this route. Furthermore, I have contacted the poi that lived in the neighborhood multiple times, and like law enforcement, do not believe there is a correlation. I believe his disappearance happened before he supposedly walked home.
 
Tigermountain said:
Sbryce,

I firmly believe something happened at or around your property. I routinely run, walk or drive on these streets twice per day and have for many years. David would have been found very quickly if he walked this route. Furthermore, I have contacted the poi that lived in the neighborhood multiple times, and like law enforcement, do not believe there is a correlation. I believe his disappearance happened before he supposedly walked home.
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Well....I'd certainly like to hear more in your theory?
What do you think happened and are you suggesting David never even set off home?
 
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