http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/50898802.html
15 July 09
Experts have created a new composite showing what Christopher Abeyta might look like, 23 years after the 7-month-old disappeared from the family's home in Colorado Springs.
The composite was released by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The Center is asking anyone who may have information about Abeyta, to call their toll-free national hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST.
Christopher disappeared from his parents' bedroom between 12:30 - 2:30 a.m. on July 15th, 1986.
Christopher Abeyta's mother has never stopped looking for him, even though she, at one time, was under police focus.
Bernice Abeyta says she's optimistic about this new composite, and about new leads generated recently. She says, "I want to do whatever it's going to take to get through to people to find Christopher."
[The new age progression, however, is not shown at the link!]
I don't think the parents are guilty. But I think Christopher's kidnapper was someone who knew the family and layout of the house enough to not make noise, use a flashlight. Christopher perhaps did not make noise because he likely knew his abductor. Some questionns about the case:
1.) Why did LE lose important evidence in the case, and what was the evidence that was lost?
2.) Should the polygraph test that Mrs. Abeyta failed be ruled as inconclusive evidence, because she was suffering from the obvious trauma of the abduction and the stress as she withdrew from the medication?
3.) What medication was she taking? For what length of time? How much did it help? If it was helping, why did she stop taking the medicine?
4.) I have heard different reports that the basement window was open AND the bedroom door was unlocked. I read somewhere that the Abeyta's had many children and they left the doors unlocked because some of the kids were teens and they were often coming into the house or going out.
5.) Why would the family spend all these years looking for Christopher and setting up help and support services for information if the parents were guilty? That does not make sense to me.
6.) There is one bad piece of evidence that hurts the family though, and that is Charlie Project's claim that it was the first night the father had returned home for the first time since the separation. Charlie Project claims that the father slept in the home when Christopher went missing between the night and the following morning. Maybe LE went with that and blamed the parents off of this? I don't think it's enough to make the family guilty, but it is a very painful coincidence.
7.) What is known about the Abeyta's separation? How long were they separated? Were they legally divorced? Was their any evidence of alcohol, physical abuse, or drug use within the family before or leading up to their separation? After Christopher went missing?
8.) Would family members be willing to submit to DNA testing to rule everyone out as suspects? Do you guys think another polygraph test could rule the parents out as suspects?
9.) What is the current status and situation of Christopher's family at this time?
10.) Above in the quote, a time of 12:30am to 2:30am is given for when the abduction occurred, other accounts say, between 12:30 to 6am. What evidence narrows the time gap down mentioned above? Did any of the other family members hear anything at all during that time spread?
Let's hope for justice and closure in Christopher's case!
Satch
