Post by TheWebDetective on Jun 19, 2015 13:29:06 GMT -5
Jack Phillips has been missing from Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino, California, since August 6th, 1995. Based on the AMW web archive, he may have been featured in the late 1990s. Here's his case from the Charley Project:
Missing Since: August 6, 1995 from Big Bear Lake, California
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: June 22, 1986
Age (at time of disappearance): 9 years old
Height and Weight (at time of disappearance): 4'0, 72 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Jack has facial freckles and a gap between his two front teeth. He has a scar on his left cheek and his left ear is pierced. His nickname is J.D. He still had baby teeth at the time of his 1995 disappearance.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A black tank top, gray shorts with a Tasmanian Devil cartoon image on one of the legs, white socks, white sneakers and a hoop earring.
Details of Disappearance
Jack was last seen between 5:00 and 5:30 p.m. on August 6, 1995 near the Aspen Glen picnic grounds in Big Bear Lake, California. He was picnicking there with his younger half-brother, his mother and her live-in boyfriend. Jack had an argument with his mother and her boyfriend the day he disappeared and he told a witness he was tired of arguing. He apparently vanished while walking back to where the adults were. Jack has no history of running away.
Several days after Jack's disappearance, a friend of his family in Bakersfield, California received an automated phone call asking whether she would accept a collect call. She thought she heard Jack's voice on the line when the caller was supposed to announce himself, but the caller hung up before she could speak with him. It has not been confirmed that the caller was Jack. The only other person he knows in Bakersfield is his father, who was in prison in 1995. An extensive search of the area around the picnic grounds and Jack's nearby home turned up no sign of the child. His mother and her boyfriend aren't considered suspects in his disappearance. Jack's father and mother later got back together and now live in West Virginia.
Convicted child killer James Crummel is the prime suspect in Jack's disappearance. He was a violent serial pedophile a record of child molestation dating back to the 1960s. All but one of his known victims were boys, and they looked like Jack and were in the same age group. He lived only a few blocks from Aspen Glen at the time Jack vanished, and later told a cellmate he had murdered the child. Authorities believe he may have disposed of Jack's body in the ocean.
A photo of Crummel is posted below this case summary. In August 1967, he abducted a fourteen-year-old Wisconsin boy, molested him and beat him almost to death. He served five years of a thirty-year sentence for the crime. In 1983, he was convicted of the February 1967 murder of an Arizona boy and sentenced to life in prison, but the conviction was overturned in 1987 because of ineffective counsel. He ended up pleading guilty to kidnapping in the Arizona case and was released later that year.
In 1997, Crummel was charged with the murder of a thirteen-year-old neighbor boy, James Wilfred "Jamey" Trotter. Jamey disappeared in 1979. In 1990, Crummel "discovered" the teen's skull, but it wasn't identified until 1996. After his murder arrest, investigators approached Crummel about Jack's case and he offered to confess to Jack's murder if prosecutors would not seek the death penalty for the Trotter murder. The deal was turned down and Crummel was convicted of Jamey Trotter's murder in 2004 and sentenced to death. In June 2012, Crummel committed suicide on death row by hanging himself with an electric cord. He didn't leave a note.
Foul play is suspected in Jack's case due to the circumstances involved in his disappearance, but no one has ever been charged in his case.
Thoughts?
www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/phillips_jack.html
charleyross.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/suspect-in-jack-phillipss-case-commits-suicide/
doenetwork.org/cases/1208dmca.html
z13.invisionfree.com/PorchlightUSA/ar/t6064.htm
NCMEC link: api.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/808613
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