CO CO - Anthony Moya, 2, Denver, 12 June 1989

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charleyproject.org/cases/m/moya_anthony.html
doenetwork.org/cases/166dmco.html

 

[Jake479]

Reposting Anthony's pictures

 

[Jake479]

Bumping

 

[Jake479]

He needs a DNA sample in NamUs. findthemissing.org/cases/6432

 

[CastlesBurning]

Age progression to age 31:

Anthony Steven Michael Moya – The Charley Project

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Anthony Steven Michael Moya – The Charley Project

Age: 2 years old
Height and Weight: 2'0, 26 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description: Yellow pajama pants.

Distinguishing Characteristics
Hispanic male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Anthony has facial dimples. He has blue-colored birthmarks on his buttocks and on his back, and a scar on the back of his right leg. At the time of his disappearance, he had a bald spot on the front of his head where some hair had been pulled out.

Details of Disappearance
Anthony and his mother, Jessica Moya, were sleeping on the couch in an apartment in the 500 block of Webster Street, near west Sixth Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard in Denver, Colorado on June 12, 1989 at approximately 8:30 a.m. Anthony, Jessica and her infant daughter were staying with relatives at the time; they had been living in the apartment for about a month.

Jessica stated she awoke at approximately 8:45 a.m. and discovered that the front door was open and her son was missing. There was no sign of Anthony or any intruders. He has never been heard from again.

Jessica and her boyfriend were questioned after Anthony's disappearance and took polygraph tests. Jessica told the media they both failed and were regarded as suspects in her child's disappearance. She maintains her innocence and stated she believed Anthony had been abducted by a stranger.

Other residents of the apartment complex did not report seeing Anthony or any suspicious activity in the area on the morning of his disappearance. Due to the lack of evidence in the child's case, it is classified as a non-family abduction.

Investigating Agency
Lakewood Police Department 303-987-7111

 

[Atombudd]

Anthony Steven Michael Moya

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Anthony, circa 1989; Age-progression to age 31 (circa 2018)

• Missing Since 06/12/1989
• Missing From Denver, Colorado
• Classification Non-Family Abduction
• Sex Male
• Race Hispanic
• Date of Birth 04/29/1987 (34)
• Age 2 years old
• Height and Weight 2'0, 26 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description Yellow pajama pants.
• Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Anthony has facial dimples. He has blue-colored birthmarks on his buttocks and on his back, and a scar on the back of his right leg. At the time of his disappearance, he had a bald spot on the front of his head where some hair had been pulled out.

Details of Disappearance
Anthony and his mother, Jessica Moya, were sleeping on the couch in an apartment in the 500 block of Webster Street, near west Sixth Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard in Denver, Colorado on June 12, 1989 at approximately 8:30 a.m. Anthony, Jessica and her infant daughter were staying with relatives at the time; they had been living in the apartment for about a month.

Jessica stated she awoke at approximately 8:45 a.m. and discovered that the front door was open and her son was missing. There was no sign of Anthony or any intruders. He has never been heard from again.

Jessica and her boyfriend were questioned after Anthony's disappearance and took polygraph tests. Jessica told the media they both failed and were regarded as suspects in her child's disappearance. She maintains her innocence and stated she believed Anthony had been abducted by a stranger.

Other residents of the apartment complex did not report seeing Anthony or any suspicious activity in the area on the morning of his disappearance. Due to the lack of evidence in the child's case, it is classified as a non-family abduction.
Anthony Steven Michael Moya – The Charley Project

Circumstances of Disappearance
During the morning of June 12, 1989, Jessica Moya reported her two-year old son, Anthony Moya, was missing from an apartment complex located off West 5th Avenue and Webster Street. Moya stated she awoke aounr 8:30AM and found her son was asleep in a bedroom; she had been sleeping on the floor in the apartment's living room. She then went back to sleep in the front room for another 15 minutes, woke, and discovered the front door of the residence ajar and Anthony missing. Canvasing the apartment complex revealed nothing and no one had seen the boy. Both Ms. Moya and her boyfriend, Tim Vigil, failed lied detector tests, but insist that they had nothing to do with the boy's disappearance. To date, Anthony Moya's whereabouts are unknown.
166DMCO - Anthony Steven Michael Moya
Colorado Cold Case Files - Case Detail: Anthony Moya
Missing Person / NamUs #MP6432

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping case up.

Across Colorado, dozens of families look for missing children – The Denver Post
And there is Anthony Moya, whose mother told police she and 2-year-old Anthony were napping in their Lakewood apartment in 1989. When she woke up, she said, Anthony was gone.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping case up. Such a shame that Anthony's sister had to grow up without him.

I am curious if his mother was frantically searching for him outside after he went missing, hoping he had just let himself out. Typically parents would be out searching for their child for many days, asking for community help, etc.

Can anyone find any old articles about this case from back in 1989?

Doe Network states no DNA is on file, but hopefully that's not true and family has cooperated with providing DNA.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Anthony was 2-years-old when he disappeared. He would now be 38-years-old.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Here is a child matching his description who was dumped in California. However this boy was found in 2004 and PMI just says "more than 1 year."
NamUs UP51183

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Here is a child found in California in 2000. However this child is thought to be at least 3-years-old. UP56504

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Here is a child found in Texas in 1993. However the age range is 2-14 years old. UP3810

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Here is a child I believe needs to be ruled-out. Age 1-2 years, found in Washington state in 1992. UP138180

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[mothwings]

Bumping case up. Such a shame that Anthony's sister had to grow up without him.

I am curious if his mother was frantically searching for him outside after he went missing, hoping he had just let himself out. Typically parents would be out searching for their child for many days, asking for community help, etc.

Can anyone find any old articles about this case from back in 1989?

Doe Network states no DNA is on file, but hopefully that's not true and family has cooperated with providing DNA.

Could he have even let himself out? I have a hard time believing he could even reach the door knob and push the door open. Even if he did, he would have to disappear without someone seeing and helping him or run into an abductor. I think the chances are slim that he left that apartment on his own accord. It's also strange his mother slept through the abduction (if he was, in fact, abducted).

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Toddlers have been known to let themselves out of unlocked doors, depending on how it opens, and depending on the child's abilities. I think it's possible, depending on the type of doorknob, but unlikely. Too bad we don't have photos of the doorknob, etc.

For his mother's story to be true either she left the door unlocked all night and he was able to open it and was one of the rare unlucky kids who disappeared or someone else who had a key entered the apartment and took him.

 

[Rikissa]

Is it possible to open a door that hasn't been locked on the inside, from the outside without a key? I'm used with both types of doors, those where an unlocked door can be opened from outside by pressing a handle, and those that needs a key to open.
(Not so fun to discover that my cat had learnt to open doors with handles, and went on his own to visit a neighbour.)