Kennebec Journal, Feb. 5 2012
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Still missing: Parents never give up when children disappear
"Four months later, state police took over the investigation, Moreau said.
"They realized this was something more than just a child that ran away, and they listed her as exploited and endangered, which, as far as I know, is how she remains listed today," he said.
Those initial years were difficult, Moreau said.
Soon after Kimberly disappeared, Moreau and his wife concluded that their daughter was dead. Within a year, Kimberly's grandfather died from heartbreak, Moreau contends. A year later, Kimberly's mom died of cancer.
"I had three years of what I classify as total hell," Moreau said. "Pardon my language, but that's the best way I know how to put it."
A few years later, in 1991, Moreau took matters into his own hands again after he was encouraged by private investigators to spread awareness of his daughter's disappearance.
Moreau began taping missing child posters onto utility poles throughout the area, he said. Also, as a supervisor in the shipping department of International Paper Co., Moreau would insert missing posters into shipments. Those posters have been sent to cities in Asia, Europe and South America."