Twenty-five years ago, on September 11, exactly one year before the 9/11 attacks, Leah Hackett told police she tucked her 8-year-old son Zachary Bernhardt into bed, went for a middle-of-the-night swim in the community pool and returned to an empty apartment, sparking Florida’s longest-running...
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The deputy chief of the Clearwater Police Department, Michael Walek, has been involved in the case since day one and takes it personally.
"We have an 8-year-old kid who should be 32 today and somebody knows something," Walek stated.
The area was searched in and out by hundreds of people. Detectives gathered more than 350 pieces of evidence and Zachary’s case fills 35 binders.
Walek added that the information in those 35 binders was recently scanned into one searchable document using Project Adam – named for Adam Walsh.
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Walek noted that over the past 25 years, no one has been ruled out as a suspect or a person of interest. They would not say whether, at this point in the investigation, they have a suspect or person of interest.
"In 25 years, Zach’s mother has not reached out to us and asked us what’s going on. What’s active in the case. What’s the status of the case? Recently, we traveled to another part of the state of Florida to talk with her and we were met with negative results - uncooperative," Michael Walek, deputy chief for Clearwater Police Department said. "If that was your son that was eight years old missing, would you be calling every day, every month, every hour? You wouldn’t want to know what’s going on? We got nothing."
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