LA LA - Stephen Bovard, 20, Zachary, 31 Jan 1983

[Gardener1850]

The Doe Network:
Case File 1246DMLA

Stephen Glenn Bovard
Missing since January 31, 1983 from Zachary, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics

• 
  [*]Date Of Birth: July 23, 1962
  [*]Age at Time of Disappearance: 20 years old
  [*]Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'6"; 135 lbs.
  [*]Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Brown hair; green eyes. No scars or tattoos.
  [*]Jewelry: Stephen was wearing a gold chain and a white gold ring with small diamond.
• Dentals: Available.

Circumstances of Disappearance
Bovard's parents reported their son missing after he failed to come home for several days. His truck was found abandoned and burned near St. Francisville.
Bovard had been arrested on drug charges a week before he vanished. He last was seen alive at the home of a Zachary man who disappeared after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Bovard had been working as a mechanic for about a year.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office
225-389-5000
Case Number: 83-3454
NCIC Number: M071542112
Source Information:
The Baton Rouge Advocate
NamUs
LSU

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1246dmla.html

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/4056/

 

[CastlesBurning]

Details updated 5/21/19:

Stephen Glynn Bovard – The Charley Project

 

[MadMcGoo]

I was just reading his Charley Project profile a few days ago. He looks very familiar to me!

“Authorities searched the Atchafalaya River with sonar and found an object which they thought was a body, but conditions prevented divers from recovering it. When police checked Ferguson's home, there was bloody on the wall and ceiling, and a section of carpet had been cut out.”

Do they believe this body, if actually it was a body, was his? I wonder if they ever tried searching again.

“The outcome of the murder case is unknown, but foul play is suspected due to the circumstances involved.”

Is anyone able to find out anything about the outcome, if there’s been one?

 

[YaYa_521]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Missing Person / NamUs #MP4056
Stephen Glenn Bovard
Male, White / Caucasian
Date of Last Contact January 31, 1983
NamUs Case Created December 22, 2009

Last Known Location Map
Location Zachary, Louisiana
County East Baton Rouge Parish
Missing Age 20 Years
Current Age 57 Years

Height 5' 6" (66 Inches)
Weight 135 lbs
Hair Color Brown
Eye Color Green

Jewelry - gold chain, white gold ring with small diamond

Circumstances of Disappearance - last seen at a friend's house in Zachary, LA.
Comments - car found burned in St. Francisville, LA.

 

[YaYa_521]

Details updated 5/21/19:

Stephen Glynn Bovard – The Charley Project

Stephen Glynn Bovard

Bovard, circa 1983; Bobby Joe Ferguson

• Missing Since 01/31/1983
• Missing From Zachary, Louisiana
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Male
• Race White
• Date of Birth 07/23/1962 (57)
• Age 20 years old
• Height and Weight 5'6, 135 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description - A gold chain and a white gold ring with a small diamond.
• Distinguishing Characteristics - Caucasian male. Brown hair, green eyes.

Details of Disappearance
Bovard was last seen at the home of a Zachary, Louisiana man, Bobby Joe Ferguson, on January 31, 1983. His parents, with whom he lived in the 17000 block of south Harrell's Ferry Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, reported him missing after he didn't come home for several days.

He has never been heard from again. On February 3, his truck was found abandoned and burned in the Tunica Hills northwest of St. Francisville, Louisiana.

A week before he vanished, Bovard had been arrested on drug charges. Police confiscated twelve grams of cocaine, 53 Quaalude tablets, one and a half pounds of marijuana, a .357 magnum pistol, and $5,000 in cash. He was facing a minimum of ten years in prison if convicted, unless he chose to cooperate with the investigation.

Investigators believe Bovard is dead, and issued a warrant for Ferguson's arrest for second-degree murder in the case, but Ferguson fled to avoid arrest. A photo of Ferguson is posted with this case summary. Another suspect, Morris Ronald Allen, in March 1983 and charged with being an accessory to second-degree murder after the fact.

Allen told investigators that on February 4, he'd helped Ferguson dump a carpet-wrapped body, weighted with two tire rims, in the Atchafalaya River at Highway 190 near Krotz Springs. He didn't see whose body it was, but saw an arm and knew it was a human body.

Authorities searched the Atchafalaya River with sonar and found an object which they thought was a body, but conditions prevented divers from recovering it. When police checked Ferguson's home, there was bloody on the wall and ceiling, and a section of carpet had been cut out.

Bovard was employed as a mechanic with Odom Offshore Surveys at the time of his disappearance; he'd worked there about a year. The outcome of the murder case is unknown, but foul play is suspected due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency

• East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office 225-389-5000

Source Information

• The Doe Network
• Louisiana Repository for Unidentified & Missing People
• The Baton Rouge Advocate

Updated 4 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated May 21, 2019; details of disappearance updated.

 

[Pennysmom1]

Stephen is still missing

Missing Person / NamUs #MP4056

View NamUs missing person case MP4056 for Stephen Glenn Bovard missing from Zachary, Louisiana. Date of last contact: Jan 31, 1983. NCMEC case number: --.

namus.nij.ojp.gov

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=1246dmla

Distinguishing Marks/Features: No scars or tattoos.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available.
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Available

 

[spartanx]

We already know who killed him, but not the motives... did Ferguson simply escape and was never found again? How terrible is a situation like that... Ferguson is surely also involved with drugs and perhaps that situation led to Stephen being killed... they just didn't find him...
Whatever the case
Rest in peace