Ten-year-old Christian Ferguson vanished in 2003

[FlowerWhiskers]

I searched and didn't see anything posted about his here, so I wanted to share with you all a local case here in St. Louis that has haunted me for years. This poor little guy is most likely dead, and because no body has been found, the police can't do anything, even though they're pretty sure who's responsible. It just makes me so heartbroken and angry I just want to scream.

This is an old article, but it is very well written. It is quite long, but well worth the read.

The 911 call came in half an hour after sunrise, at 6:09 a.m. on Wednesday, June 11, 2003. From a pay phone at the southeast corner of Page Boulevard and Skinker Parkway, just inside the St. Louis city limits, Dawan Ferguson informed the dispatcher that his SUV had been stolen and his handicapped son kidnapped.

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When St. Louis police officers arrived at the scene, a nondescript strip mall, Ferguson "began crying while stating, 'My son is gone, my son is gone' repeatedly," the officers would note in an incident report.

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2009-...pecial-report/Part one of article

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2009-...pecial-report/Part two of article

[runecire]

Thanks for sharing, Whiskers.

I'm sorry to say that the boy probably died soon after the car thief realized he had a passenger. Either that or he is somewhere being tended to by someone who does not know he's missing. Very sad.


Edit to add:

Maybe I'm jaded from other "missing" child stories, but has anyone noticed that the vehicle was abandoned with all the expensive stuff still inside? So somebody steals the vehicle, drops the kid somewhere (dead or alive), has an attack of conscience and leaves the vehicle where it can be easily found with ALL of it's contents undisturbed? Sounds wayyyyy fishy to me. Sorry, but it sounds like someone wanted to get the child out of his/her life. We've seen that scenario play out too many times with children who weren't "high risk", and this child was in need of continual, and I would imagine expensive, medical care. Nope, not buying that someone close to the child is NOT involved somehow.

[Rockin Ma]

I'm thinking he was dead when he was removed from the house.

I read the whole thing. This will always stay with me now. I want Justice.

[wishfulsinful]

This article both made me cry and pissed me off , mostly the latter..
Dawan Ferguson is at the very least guilty of blatant child neglect/abuse. IMO he's also responsible for poor Christian's murder..What a soulless piece of shit; he deserves the worst karma can bring him. My heart goes out to Christian's mom, Theda... HOw fucking frustrating that all her complaints of child abuse fell on deaf ears because"she went about them the wrong way".

[tenntitanfan]

The father sounds like a man torn between two women. He hated the boy's mother so much that he didn't want her to have her son. His new wife hen pecked him so much that he began neglecting his son to please her. I wish they would find him and his wife guilty.