Found Deceased AL - Johnathan Boley, 4, Missing Child Alert, Endangered, may be with black dog, last seen 11:30am in 7000 block Hwy 195, Jasper, 31 Dec 2025

[Vern_S]

The boy and the dog will probably be found in one of the many retention ponds in the area. This will take quite some time to search without the proper technology. I wish I was closer.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Also from the WVTM article:

Johnathan Everett Boley, 4, was last seen about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 7000 block of Highway 195 in Jasper. The family clarified to WVTM 13 that he is 4 years old after the sheriff originally stated he was 5.

Search for missing 4-year-old continues after explosives, booby traps found on Alabama property

The boy weighs 50 pounds, has blond hair, blue eyes and was wearing a yellow Mickey Mouse shirt, black pants and "Paw Patrol" shoes, authorities said.

www.wvtm13.com

 

[rosesfromangels]

The boy and the dog will probably be found in one of the many retention ponds in the area. This will take quite some time to search without the proper technology. I wish I was closer.


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I know you are right, but I’m holding out the long shot the child is still alive given that the dog hasn’t returned. Yes, time and again we see the boys end up in water.

 

[Jw192]

Oh

I'm hoping like heck that the whole "bomb" thing is one of them ex soldier can't let go hobby type of things that is in no way nefarious. I've seen it before, men with a huge plot of land who set up wires and "traps" etc... it's totally not legal but I'm hoping so hard that's what it is and why the dad told his sons "not to go under the fence"
Ack I dunno, maybe I'm hoping too hard. The little lad is 4 years old, that's no age to be outside in the boonies alone with December weather overnight nevermind longer. I do hope that the dog is with him. The absence from the neighbours camera could well be that it coincides with the arrival of the kids. We don't know the bond the little one and the dog have (we don't know how frequent visits are/how old the pooch is) but if the lab has followed the kid out there, then the dog will stay with him.

Man, I'm just hoping so hard here.

 

[Vern_S]

I know you are right, but I’m holding out the long shot the child is still alive given that the dog hasn’t returned. Yes, time and again we see the boys end up in water.

I don't want to be right. I want the boy found alive and well with his dog. Unfortunately, I have worked to many cases like this.

 

[Bigditch]

Dbm

 

[diggndeeperstill]

At the very beginning the Sheriff says the items found in that area were not explosives. I believe based on the post that he’s talking about those away from the home that were found. That is good news. But recording is bad.

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The search for a missing child in Walker County continues.

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[Orbweaver]

I’m sorry if I missed it but do we know who called the police and reported him missing?

I’m in commercial/industrial HVAC engineering and the line between a proper high pressure refrigerant (colloquially known as Freon) line set and a pipe bomb is pretty thin. I’ve seen poorly installed line sets come apart and blow a handful of big burly men on their… butts… From his Facebook and another source earlier in the thread, Johnathan’s dad is/was an HVAC contractor, it’s possible the piping that authorities are finding on the property is refuse from previous jobs. There has also been a refrigerant change as of 2025 and the new mandated refrigerant is much more flammable. I have no assumptions about this case but I can see how materials laying around the property of someone who owns their own HVAC contracting company could look like bomb making materials to the cautious and untrained eye.

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[Parsnip]

The boy and the dog will probably be found in one of the many retention ponds in the area. This will take quite some time to search without the proper technology. I wish I was closer.


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That is daunting. I believe the slightly older brother’s account about the fence. I believe the dog would follow the missing little guy. I believe that his dad has issues, and the incendiaries are strange and suspect, but at this time, I don’t suspect the dad. I *do* suspect that dad may have delayed reporting because of some activities he was engaged in. No trust in law enforcement until needing to trust law enforcement.

I give some credit to the neighbor’s report that the dog hadn’t been seen for a couple of days prior to the disappearance, but it was over the holidays, and we don’t know anything much about the dad’s or the neighbor’s travels tht week.

I suspect that the boy and his dog absconded. The unfortunate delay in reportiing impaired LE’s ability to find the boy. I suspect he traveled with his dog to an outlying area and perished from the elements, be they water, temperature, or time.

 

[nao]

Moo.... Labradors have plenty of energy and endurance strength. Labs also like water and swimming. They also like chasing sticks and food. So they could of traveled far. The dog probably knows the area very well, since it wanders. But dog should come back for food eventually..moo

 

[diggndeeperstill]

Moo.... Labradors have plenty of energy and endurance strength. Labs also like water and swimming. They also like chasing sticks and food. So they could have traveled far. The dog probably knows the area very well, since it wanders. But dog should come back for food eventually..moo

I wondered if dog was used to eating corn from deer feeders. If so, should show up on a trail cam.

 

[Parsnip]

Moo.... Labradors have plenty of energy and endurance strength. Labs also like water and swimming. They also like chasing sticks and food. So they could of traveled far. The dog probably knows the area very well, since it wanders. But dog should come back for food eventually..moo

@nao , you are vey intuitive. What do you think happened?

 

[Ontario Mom]

I’m sorry if I missed it but do we know who called the police and reported him missing?

RSBM

Yes, his dad reported him missing. Search for missing 4-year-old continues in Walker County

 

[Knox]

That is daunting. I believe the slightly older brother’s account about the fence. I believe the dog would follow the missing little guy. I believe that his dad has issues, and the incendiaries are strange and suspect, but at this time, I don’t suspect the dad. I *do* suspect that dad may have delayed reporting because of some activities he was engaged in. No trust in law enforcement until needing to trust law enforcement.

I give some credit to the neighbor’s report that the dog hadn’t been seen for a couple of days prior to the disappearance, but it was over the holidays, and we don’t know anything much about the dad’s or the neighbor’s travels tht week.

I suspect that the boy and his dog absconded. The unfortunate delay in reportiing impaired LE’s ability to find the boy. I suspect he traveled with his dog to an outlying area and perished from the elements, be they water, temperature, or time.

That's a good point you made about the neighbor's report - hadn't seen the dog on his game camera since 12/26.

Sheriff said Dad had visitation with the boys for five days and they were due to go back to Mom today. If Kyle picked up the boys on Sat, 12/27 - the dog was likely busy with the boys, not roaming like he normally would be with no one to occupy his time. Just a thought.

Re; your last sentence, but where's the dog?

 

[nao]

@nao , you are vey intuitive. What do you think happened?

Moo...well thank you. The dog should be back for food by 5 days. The weather has probably been wet, so parts of the ground will be slippery. Very easy for accidents to happen, especially around ponds....moo

 

[GuiltyNothing]

I don't want to be right. I want the boy found alive and well with his dog. Unfortunately, I have worked to many cases like this.

I’ve owned labs my whole life but never had a child. I’m guessing even if the child ended up in the water the dog would have went in after him but not drown. Maybe even pulling the child out. But I would have a hard time believing the dog drowned with the child, if they are both found in one of those ponds.

 

[Stunned]

I’ve owned labs my whole life but never had a child. I’m guessing even if the child ended up in the water the dog would have went in after him but not drown. Maybe even pulling the child out. But I would have a hard time believing the dog drowned with the child, if they are both found in one of those ponds.

I also have a hard time believing the dog would have drowned. The dog probably would have dragged the child out of a pond, but with the freezing temps. that wouldn't have turned out well either.

 

[Allabouttrial]

MORNING BRIEF

1ST JANUARY

SHERIFF - So to kind of update everybody where we're at. So, yesterday, law enforcement, we received a call about 12.28, about a missing 4 year old child. Turns out the child is 5, the information that we were initially given was that he was 4 but he is 5 years old, that he was missing. Law enforcement arrived on the scene at about 1.02 with RPS. They cleared the house just to make sure that he wasn't inside the house.

We began.. since at about 1.15 we've had drones with thermal, as well as aviation in the air to about 3 o'clock this morning, aviation is refueling, they're on their way back. We haven't gotten any heat sensors, we haven't gotten any indication that the child is in the woods other than the 6 year old brother said that the last time that he saw her brother was on the wood line. They crossed under the fence, and that was the last thing.. he went back to tell the father that (?) had crossed the fence line.

So, the child is missing along with a dog; the dog's name is Buck, it's a black lab, it's got a white, large, white patch on it's chest, has no collar. So, we have not found the dog as well. We haven't seen any indications... last night we found some deer but we found no dogs, so we haven't found the dog yet either.

A nearby neighbor said that the dog was consistently coming on the field every day on his deer camera. He hasn't had the dog on the camera since the 26th of this month. So that's where we're at from that standpoint.

Regina here who's with the EMA, they're going to stay here, kind of organize the groups and where to search and things of that nature. Stay away from the house. The house is taped off. We have a search warrant to execute there. We have some things that we have to clear out of the house, we can't do the search of the house because of the threat of explosive devices, possibly out in the woods and inside the house, so we don't want any civilians or search members anywhere around the house.

 

[diggndeeperstill]

ONLY ON 13: Aunt urges prayers for missing 4-year-old as community joins search in Walker County

Authorities and volunteers are searching for 4-year-old Johnathan Boley, who went missing in Walker County. Despite the fear and uncertainty, Kim Smith remains hopeful.

www.wvtm13.com

Johnathan's aunt, Kim Smith, described him as a "country boy who loves nature, Paw Patrol, and running." She is urging the community to pray for his safe return.
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Kim Smith expressed the family's distress over the past 33 hours, saying, "Having all this help come out and not having an inkling of anything, no signs of anything that, you know, he's been out in the woods, nothing from the thermal drains from the dog ponds today."
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"We suspended the search a little earlier because volunteers were flagging, potential things that they thought might be, explosives. We have identified, across the street that none of those items flagged were explosives," he said.

 

[Allabouttrial]

INTERVIEW WITH SHERIFF

1ST JANUARY

REPORTER - There's a lot of people here who are all in desperate need to find Johnathan and find him quickly. We've got Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith, he's here. You've got a lot of agencies here, a lot of people here - what's next as you all get started?

SHERIFF - So the search for Johnathan started yesterday. We got a call about 12.28, about a missing child of 4 years old. Just the report that we got, when we got here the child is actually 5 years old. The indications were that him and his brother were outside playing around the fence line with a dog, with a lab mixed dog with a white chest. The brother said that the dog and his brother went across the fence line, he went back to notify the father that the brother had crossed the fence line. There was about a 2 hour delay at this point that we have narrowed down. There was a 2 hour delay in calling law enforcement to get us out here, but when we were called, deputies were on scene with RPS at about 1.02 and they cleared the house to make sure that the child wasn't just hiding in the house. And we had a drone in the air since 1.15 all the way up till 3.00 o'clock this morning with aviation support, with thermal imagery, trying to find the child. We have not got any heat sensors. We had volunteers out yesterday doing ground searches, law enforcement out doing ground searches. Those ground searches around the house got suspended yesterday. We have got support from the FBI, state police, local municipalities, law enforcement, volunteers. There's just a whole lot of people to name that's stepped up to really help us. But we suspended the search. We obtained a search warrant for the house. There's explosives inside the house. We encourage anybody not to take any searching on on their own, if they want to search, they need to come sign in here at Cornerstone Church, so we know who's doing what because it is a... especially around the house, we're going to keep it limited to law enforcement just because of the threat of explosives throughout the property line.

REPORTER - Yeah wow what a day, so what... are you all gonna start going out in teams this morning and continue that search?

SHERIFF - Yeah so right now we're going to brief here shortly, we're going to organise team search groups to get out. Looks like we got a couple hundred people here that we're gonna be able to utilise today to do a significant ground search. Like I said, we didn't get any thermal hits from yesterday evening all the way through the night so that would indicate that the child is either not in the woods or the child is under some kind of structure. So I encourage people that live in this vicinity to make sure they're searching their vehicles, they're searching their garages, they're searching their carports, anything that a child could be hiding under that we might not have gotten to yet.

REPORTER - And I thought it was good advice, too, if you have a deer camera or any sort of video equipment to check that as well.

SHERIFF - So, if you have any kind of deer camera out in the woods please check that footage to see if you've got the child or the dog, I believe his name was Buck, on camera. So the child and the dog have still not been accounted for and were looking for both.

REPORTER - Thank you for talking to us, we know you've got a lot to do today, we appreciate you taking your time.