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Robert Desmond - August 1, 1964 - Kennebunk, Maine
10-year-old Robert Desmond lived with his three siblings, their mother, Alice, and stepfather, Chet, on Hovey Street. Police had been to the family's home on numerous occasions as Chet often drank, becoming violent. The night before Robert disappeared, Chet was very upset. Robert's sister, Dawn, says that her older sister hid her in her bedroom closet and told her not to come out until the screaming stopped. She was hiding so long that she fell asleep. When she woke up the next day she saw that her older sister had fled the house using a rope made from a sheet. She found Robert lying in another bedroom, not moving, and wearing only underwear. She tried to drag him under the bed to hide him but he was too heavy for her and her mother caught her. Alice dragged her down to the basement and locked her in a wooden crate. When she woke up the next morning Alice told her that Robert had stolen money from her purse and ran away. His mother and stepfather never reported him missing. It was not until a month later, when he failed to show up for school that anyone realized he was missing. Shortly after Robert disappeared, the family moved out of that house.
Kennebunk Police Department (Maine) 1-207-985-6121
Douglas Chapman - June 2, 1971 - Alfred, Maine
Two-and-a-half-year-old Douglas "Dougie" Chapman was last seen playing outside his family's mobile home on Alfred Gore Road at 10:30 am. He was playing in a sand pile about 25 yards in front of his residence while his mother was inside speaking on the phone. When she went out to check on him, Dougie was gone. Dogs traced Dougie's scent through the woods and up to Gore Road, where it abruptly stopped. Dougie's father, who has a background in law-enforcement, believes his son was put into a car and taken.
Maine State Police - 1-207-657-3030
Cathy Moulton - September 24, 1971 - Portland, Maine (possible New Brunswick, Canada connection)
On September 24, 1971, 16-year-old Cathy Moulton's father dropped her off at the corner of Forest and Cumberland Avenues between 3 and 4 pm. She left Starbird Music Shop on Forest Avenue, headed back to her house on Clinton Street. When she did not return by 6 pm, her parents contacted friends and soon called the police. After investigation, police now believe she was taken from Portland against her wishes by an older boyfriend and his acquaintance, prevented from leaving while working on a potato farm in Aroostook County, and then died on a Maliseet Tobique First Nations reservation in New Brunswick, Canada. Cathy’s body has never been recovered and no official suspects have been named in her case.
Portland Police Department (Maine) 1-207-874-8575
Kurt Newton - August 31, 1975 - Chain of Ponds Township, Maine
Ron and Jill Newton were camping on Labour Day weekend, 1975, with their children, Kimberly, 6, and Kurt, 4, and three other families from their home in Manchester, Maine. Natanis Point Campground was small and remote, six miles below the Canadian border at Coburn Gore. At 10 am, Sunday, August 31, 1975, Jill walked with her friends to the bathhouse fifty yards away to wash the children's sneakers, muddy from the day before, Kimberly was playing a game at the campsite, and Ron drove off to buy firewood. Unbeknownst to him, Kurt mounted his tricycle, chasing the truck.
About a quarter-mile from the Newtons’ campsite, Kurt pedaled past twelve-year-old Lou Ellen Hanson. She called out to him, asking if his parents knew where he was, but Kurt did not reply.
Jack Hanson, Lou Ellen’s father, who served as a volunteer caretaker for the campground, found Kurt's tricycle just before a steep rise leading the campground dump. The trike was off road, at the edge of the woods. Thinking it had been discarded, Hanson threw it atop the trash pile.
When Jill returned to the campsite, it did not take long to realize Kurt was missing. A massive search followed, but no trace of Kurt was found. Police have not discounted that he may have been abducted, but there is also nothing to indicate he is not in the woods.
Maine State Police (Maine) 1-207-657-3030
5. Bernard Ross - May 12, 1977 - Ashland, Maine
18-year-old Bernard Ross Jr. disappeared on May 12, 1977, after leaving his family home in Fort Kent. A family car that went missing the same day was later found abandoned on a dirt road. Ross was last spotted in a wooded area in Ashland. He was wearing a chamois shirt, green vest and corduroy pants. He was reportedly taking an anti-psychotic drug at the time of his disappearance.
Maine State Police (Houlton, Maine) 1-207-532-5466
6. Kimberly Moreau - May 11, 1986 - Jay, Maine
17-year-old Kimberly Moreau was last seen leaving home with an unknown individual, who was driving a late model white Trans-Am. The Charley Project identifies this man as Brian Enman who claims Kimberly was still upset about a fight she had with her boyfriend that day. When he was driving her home at 3:45 am, he says Kimberly requested to be let out of the car on Jewell Street, a half a mile from her home, as she wanted to be alone. She was wearing a white blouse, blue jeans, white high-top sneakers, and a men's class ring engraved "Mike 87" and "Mike Staples." She also has a surgical scar on her back. FOUL PLAY IS SUSPECTED.
Maine State Police - Missing Persons Unit (Maine) 1-207-743-8282
7. Ayla Reynolds - December 16, 2011 - Waterville, Maine
One-year-old Ayla Reynolds was last seen at her home on Violette Avenue in Waterville. Her father, Justin DiPietro, put her to bed at 8 pm on December 16, 2011. Her father called the police at 8:50 am on December 17 to report her missing. Besides Justin and Ayla, three other people were in the home the night Ayla's disappeared - Justin's girlfriend and his girlfriend's two children.
Waterville Police Department (Maine) 1-207-872-5551
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