Colorado Authorities Search for Couple's Kids Missing for Up to 10 Years

[Miss Anthrope]

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Colorado authorities have launched a search for two boys who have not been seen for as long as 10 years.

Colorado Springs sheriff's spokeswoman Lari Sevene said Wednesday the boys' adoptive are now in the El Paso County jail on $1 million bail each.

Edward Bryant, 58, and Linda Bryant, 54, face theft, conspiracy, forgery and other charges stemming from collecting subsidies from the El Paso County Department of Human Services. They haven't been charged in the disappearances of Austin Eugene Bryant and Edward Dylan Bryant.

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This what the pieces of shit look like


Austin may have disappeared as early as 2003, when he was 7, and Edward may have disappeared in 2001, when he was 9.

The El Paso County Sheriff's Office took a report Jan. 22 about a suspicious incident involving the disappearance of Austin Bryant, kktv.com reports. Upon further investigation, authorities found that Austin was last seen some time between 2003 and 2005, according to the website. Investigators then discovered that a second child, identified as Edward Dylan Bryant, was also unaccounted for. Edward is believed to be missing since as early as 2001.

No missing persons report for the two boys was ever filed with police.

The Bryants lived in the Monument area north of Colorado Springs between 1999 and 2005. The couple was reportedly living in Denton, Texas, at the time of their arrest. They were extradited back to Colorado.

"I don't really remember them, but they seemed like shady people," one of the Bryants' neighbors told the website. "Something just wasn't quite right."

It remains unclear why it took 10 years for authorities to discover that the children were missing.

Anyone with information on the boys is being asked to call the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at 719-390-5555.

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WTF? 10 years missing and no one noticed?!?!?

[tmdgirl]

OMG!! How could nobody notice these kids were missing?? Like neighbours, friends, the SCHOOL??? Didn't they even question why these kids were absent for so long??

[Obsolete]

OMG!! How could nobody notice these kids were missing?? Like neighbours, friends, the SCHOOL??? Didn't they even question why these kids were absent for so long??

If they moved around a lot and the kids disappeared during those moves they could easily go undetected.

[AngelFire]

OMG This brought chills down my spine. Imagine how many more kiddos have "disappeared" with out anyone even noticing? How many are out there and where are these 2 little boys?

Like so many others that we readabout, this too will not end well. 10 whole years??

[Tundratot]

Yeah. I'd like to know what finally alerted authorities. Did some member of the extended family finally call the question, like in Adam Herrman's case?

[FknKraze]

Wow! Fat chance we will ever see justice for these poor little guys now. Jesus! I don't want to think about what these sick fuckers did to them, nope, not gonna go there.

[Sister Iroz]

A newly unsealed arrest warrant paints a picture of alleged abuse against two adopted Colorado boys who have been missing as far back as 2001, including starvation and confinement by being "rolled like a burrito."

"We've received inconsistent stories about what happened to the boys," El Paso County (Colorado) Sheriff Terry Maketa said. "Everything from, 'They went to live with an uncle' to, 'They ran away' to, 'They've been institutionalized.' Their stories have been all over the map."

[...]

Sheriff Maketa said the case came to light after a tip provided "out of the blue" by two young men who were part of Austin and Edward's extended family. Brothers Ricky and Bryan Pennington had recently begun wondering what ever happened to Austin.

Ricky and Bryan were placed into foster care in 2003 with Tammy and Robert Falgout. Tammy Falgout is the daughter of Linda Bryant, who adopted the missing boys.

Bryan Pennington said he had "repeatedly observed Austin Bryant being physically abused" by Edward and Linda Bryant, according to an affidavit. He told detectives the Bryants would roll Austin in blankets "so he could not move and looked similar to a mummy."

Austin told Bryan Pennington that the Bryants had used a taser to shock him, leaving his body covered in welts, according to the affidavit.

"Mr. Pennington stated he also frequently observed Austin had black eyes and cuts on his face," the affidavit says.

Bryan Pennington said Austin told him that he was frequently locked in a trunk originally kept in Linda and Edward Bryant's closet, but eventually moved to the garage. Bryan Pennington told investigators he frequently heard "banging noises" coming from the garage.

"Mr. Pennington stated he believes the banging was Austin in the trunk in the garage," detectives wrote in court documents.

Years later, Bryan Pennington met James Bryant, one of Linda and Edward Bryant's nine adopted children.

Bryan asked James if he had heard from or seen his adopted brother Austin. James Bryant told Bryan that he had not seen Austin and said he believed his adoptive parents Edward and Linda Bryant had caused the boy's death, according to the affidavit.

In January 2011, Bryan was having lunch with his brother Ricky when they began discussing Austin. Ricky was apparently unaware of the abuse allegations or that Austin had disappeared. He insisted that Bryan go to police to tell his story, the affidavit says.

Detectives then paid a visit to James Bryant at Fort Campbell, Ky., where he serves in the U.S. Army. He is one of Linda and Edward Bryant's nine adopted children.

James Bryant eventually told detectives that his adoptive brother Austin had been subject to "significant abuse" including being restrained by being "rolled like a burrito," starved and possibly handcuffed.

"Austin was starved and denied food two to three times a week as a means of punishment," the affidavit says. "Mr. James Bryant said that Austin often ate out of the garbage can because he was hungry."

James Bryant also told detectives that Austin was kept in a large brown trunk in the garage for "two or three days at a time." He said he last saw Austin in 2003, and says all the children in the house "were told not to talk about Austin or his brother Edward," according to the affidavit.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-adoptive-parents-allegedly-collected-174k-years-sons/story?id=13111620&page=3

[MadeaBecBec]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — One of two boys who had been missing for years before authorities were notified was denied food, spanked, forced to run up and down stairs and rolled up tightly in blankets "like a burrito" as punishment in the home of their adoptive parents, an adoptive brother claimed in a statement to investigators.

Austin Eugene Bryant often grew so hungry that he scavenged food from a garbage can, an arrest warrant affidavit quotes the adoptive brother as saying.

Austin and his biological brother, Edward Dylan Bryant, disappeared from their adoptive parents' home in Monument, Colo., by late 2003, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said Thursday. Austin would have been 7 and Edward 11 at the time.

The couple who adopted them, Edward Bryant, 58, and Linda Bryant, 54, have been arrested on charges of receiving nearly $175,000 in government payments to support the boys, even though they weren't living with the couple for most of the decade.
Maketa said the Bryants were entitled to government payments to care for Austin and Edward because both were considered special needs children. He didn't elaborate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/austin-bryant-was-severe-_n_834471.html?amp

[MadeaBecBec]

I apologize, double post, It came up as though I hadn't submitted!! I knew better than to hit submit!

[scrappy]

These abusers (every last one of them, not just these two particular wastes of space on the planet) all make me want to violently assault them. But this situation...god it just makes me sick.

My babies are now 5 and 7. I think of the amazement of watching them grow and mature, how they make me laugh, make me glow with pride, make me crazy, then make me realize that if I can just take a deep breath and remember that they are only kids I won't have to yell and I can correct them with kindness and inspire them to try to do better next time.

Well gawd, when I think of how much parenting them gives ME, I'm just sickened to think how these little boys must have suffered with no love, understanding, or joy. I want to do more than hurt these people- I want to watch them suffer long and hard. What sick, heartless chunks of rotted flesh they are.

Roll them like burritos and put them in the trunk of a car in 20 degreee weather. Then let's all just walk away for a few days...:crazy:

[Tundratot]

And these stories are just about Austin. I wonder what they did to Edward? There should be a lot of testimony available from the other adopted siblings. I hope these POS get a heap of charges and pay dearly for each and every one.

[Rockin Ma]

Deputies on Saturday continued their search for two adopted boys who went missing in El Paso County in the early 2000s.

The search focused on the Monument-area property from which Austin Eugene Bryant and Edward Dylan Bryant disappeared sometime between 2001 and 2005, said El Paso County sheriff’s spokeswoman Lt. Lari Sevene.

Sheriff Terry Maketa said hopes of finding the boys alive are dimming.

Their adoptive parents, Linda and Edward Bryant, moved to Texas in 2005, without ever having reported them missing. The couple is custody in the El Paso County jail on a $1 million bond, accused of collecting more than $170,000 worth of public benefits to raise the missing boys.

The Sheriff’s Office started investigating in January when two family friends came forward with concerns about conflicting stories they were told about the boys’ disappearance from the Bryant household.



Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/bryant-114439-search-missing.html#ixzz1GanaOL8U

[Rockin Ma]

http://lostnmissing.posterous.com/missing-austin-3-and-edward-bryant-7-tx-possi


Through interviews with other family members, detectives discovered there was a second child in the family who is also unaccounted for named Edward Bryant.
No missing persons report has ever been filed with the Sheriff's Office or surrounding law enforcement agencies for these two children.
Austin Eugene Bryant, who would be 15 years old. Austin is said to have disappeared as early as 2003 when he was 7 years old.
Edward Dylan Bryant would be 18 years old now. Edward is believed to have gone missing as early as 2001 when he would have been 9 years old.
Austin and Edward are the adoptive children of 58-year-old Edward Bryant and 54-year-old Linda Bryant, of Texas.
The Bryants lived in a home located in the 18000 block of Granite Circle in Monument from 1999 to 2005.
Linda and Edward Bryant have been contacted and arrested in Texas for receiving an ongoing financial subsidy from the El Paso County Department of Human Services despite the fact Austin and Edward were not residing with them.
They have been extradited to back to Colorado and are in custody at the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center.
Edward Eugene Bryant has been charged with Felony Theft (2 counts), Conspiracy, Attempt to Influence a Public Official (19 counts), Offering a False Instrument for Recording (19 counts), Forgery (19 counts). Bond has been set at $1 million.
Linda Kay Bryant has been charged with Felony Theft (2 counts),
Conspiracy, Attempt to Influence a Public Official (46 counts),
Offering a False Instrument for Recording (46 counts), Forgery (46 counts).
Bond has been set at $1 million.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office will be conducting a neighborhood canvass and following other investigative leads to try to determine more details surrounding the disappearance of these children.

[Whisper]

Adoptive Mother Of Missing Brothers Sentenced To 42 Years
Faced 4 To 648 Years In Prison

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. -- The adoptive mother of two missing brothers was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Friday afternoon.
Linda Bryant and her husband, Edward Bryant, are accused of collecting nearly $175,000 from the department of social services for almost a decade after the children no longer lived with them.
[...]
The two missing boys, Edward and Austin, were adopted by the Bryants, but have not been seen since 2003. No one knows the whereabouts of the children.
Linda Bryant pleaded guilty in January to dozens of felony charges related to stealing money from social services.
In her plea agreement, Bryant pleaded guilty to 4 counts of Felony Theft, 2 counts of Conspiracy to Commit Theft, and 48 counts of Attempting to Influence a Public Servant.
Bryant faced a possible sentence of 4 to 648 years in prison.
Edward Bryant is scheduled to stand trial April 23, 2012.
These cases are related to economic crimes and have nothing to do with the disappearance of the two children. Authorities still do not know what happened to them, or if they are still alive
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[Tundratot]

Well, I hope they at least keep these two POS in prison for the full throw. I'm beside myself here -- I just want these people who adopt children and then lose them without a bit of compunction to DIE! Fraud is the least of it. They are cruel, cold, calculating psychopaths who should be "lost" in a third world prison located in some desert.