CO CO - Edward, 9, & Austin Bryant, 7, Colorado Springs, 2001-2003

[JDuMo]

Charley project pages were updated for these brothers on April 22, 2012.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/bryant_austin.html

 

[cocomod]

For some reason, there was a new article posted with no new information. Giving this thread a bump.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-search-adopted-children-missing-years/story?id=13105233

 

[cocomod]

Old article not yet posted in this thread:

A man accused receiving government support for his two adopted sons for years after they disappeared from his home has pleaded guilty to five counts.

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30-year prison sentence

 

[Rayemonde]

It's sad, but they might not have got such long sentences if they'd been convicted of child abuse or even murder I'm glad they're locked up, but it doesn't feel like justice has been done Where are the boys???

 

[halfpint1991]

I can't verify if the 3rd biological brother was ever accounted for or not, but there was a 3rd younger biological brother of Edward & Austin. If he is accounted for did any of their other adopted children ever vanish? I'm wondering if there is any link between these boys & the remains of 3 children in Missoula, MT back in september!!

http://www.abcfoxmontana.com/story/37061520/missoula-police-investigate-bones-as-homicide-court-docs

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Edward is featured this week on the Charley Project. If any 2 children's cases makes you want to cry.



Sweet little boy.

Edward Dylan Bryant – The Charley Project

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Edward and Austin...

 

[imstilla.grandma]

According to EPSO, on Jan. 22, 2011, a report was made of two children missing from a home in the 18000 block of Granite Circle in Monument, west of I-25 near Mount Herman. The boys, Austin and Edward Jr., reportedly lived in the home with their parents, Edward and Linda Bryant.

EPSO said the parents were interviewed in Texas, and investigators were lead to believe that the boys had actually run away in 2005. Edward Bryant claimed that the boys had run away on separate dates, while Linda said they ran away together.

EPSO said Edward and Linda were continuing to receive monthly payments from the Colorado Department of Human Services (DHS), due to the boys’ special needs. Both parents admitted to claiming the boys were still living with them in order to continue receiving those payments. Both were arrested on theft charges in light of this admission, EPSO said.

A year later, in January of 2012, Linda pleaded guilty to 54 felonies: four counts of theft, two counts of conspiracy to commit theft, and 48 counts of attempting to influence a public servant. She was sentenced to 42 years in prison, where she is still serving out her sentence.

Edward Bryant pleaded guilty to five similar felony charges, and nineteen other counts were dismissed. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison but is currently out on parole.

As for the location of the missing boys, EPSO said extensive searches have been conducted in Colorado, but no trace of either of them has been found. EPSO said authorities fear they may be dead.

However, new information has come to light, and the Sheriff’s office hopes renewing attention to the case might lead to information regarding the boys’ whereabouts, or their remains.

EPSO: Two boys still missing from Monument cold case

(MONUMENT, Colo.) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPSO) is hoping to renew the public’s interest in a cold case out of Monument, in which two boys went missing and their parents …

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El Paso Co. Sheriff's Office finds new information in 12-year-old cold case involving missing boys | KRDO

El Paso Co. Sheriff's Office finds new information in 12-year-old cold case involving missing boys

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