MI MI - Christopher Alan Temple, 17, Bath, 22 April 1990

[Pennysmom1]

Have you seen this child? Christopher Alan Temple

Missing From: Bath, MI. Missing Date: April 22, 1990. Christopher's photo is shown age-progressed to 45 years. He was last seen about 9:00 p.m. at a recreational area where he was camping with some friends. He wears contact lenses. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with a rock group...

www.missingkids.org

106DMMI - Christopher Alan Temple

 

[BelMarduk]

Unfortunately, if he sold drugs, it's easy to end up dead. There will always be a problem with that... I'm sorry for his parents, who may be good people, and Christopher left them with the sadness of not being able to know the truth about him and his whereabouts.
rest in peace

A high school kid selling a few bags of weed isn't the same as the Sinaloa cartel.

 

[Richard]

Christopher Alan Temple, age 17
Missing since 22 April 1990 from Bath, Michigan

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Christopher Alan Temple – The Charley Project

 

[Audrina]

Unfortunately, if he sold drugs, it's easy to end up dead. There will always be a problem with that... I'm sorry for his parents, who may be good people, and Christopher left them with the sadness of not being able to know the truth about him and his whereabouts.
rest in peace

it's possible to be both a good person AND a weed dealer lol...

Christopher Alan Temple – The Charley Project

Christopher was a student at Haslett Community Education at the time of his disappearance; he had perfect attendance there and made straight A's. He attended East Lansing High School, but transferred to Haslett in November of his senior year; his parents thought he would benefit from the smaller class sizes and greater individual attention there. He enjoyed swimming and working with his hands in 1990. He knew how to drive but had never had a driver's license.

Investigators initially thought Christopher was a runaway, but foul play is now suspected in his disappearance. He sold drugs at the time of his disappearance and he had a history of shorting customers, giving them smaller amounts than they had paid for, and there's a theory that an angry customer harmed him. The area where he disappeared is swampy and it would be easy to hide a body there. His case remains unsolved.

 

[Pennysmom1]

 

[OpalescentMoon]

I did some googling on this kid and the first thing i saw was actually a WS thread about another person:

Originally Posted by amazing-sea-monkey
I have not started a thread about Chris, however, I worked in downtown East Lansing at the time he went missing. I remember it very well as I was right in and around his parents' shoe store and there were posters up in every window. My aunt is very much into collecting and gathering wildflowers, so she is very familiar with the Rose Lake Nature Area and she is the one that told me of all the marshy areas. She said you could easily sink and drown and that it is much like quicksand. She called them marshes with "False Bottoms." She said that once she was there collecting flowers and the ground was actually moving beneath her feet!! She is NOT one to exaggerate, so I take this as gospel truth. Anyway, I do remember them finding a tennis shoe believed to belong to Chris or proven to belong to him, I can't remember which and all the speculation that he met his fate right then and there. It seems to me also that the parents have laid quite low in all this. I don't see them on the news, etc. You don't see it reported about or even mentioned on crime stoppers or anything as far as cold cases go. Yes, several areas in Michigan do have bogs, quicksand I call them. There is a little village near me called Pewamo. In Pewamo there is a brook/creek called "Stony Creek." My husband, myself and my brother in law were fishing by Stony Creek one day and I went to jump from the edge of the water to the bank. It was quicksand/marsh land and I sunk in IMMEDIATELY all the way to my waist. I was panicking terribly as it was too dense to crawl out of. It was the most horrifying feeling. The more I pushed with my feet the quicker I sank, there was no ground, it was bottomless. My brother in law helped me get out. I remember this one silly detail... I had shiny spandex pants on and it took the sheen right off them!! Later on a farmer told us that he had lost a cow in all that marshland. Scary but true... Ahhh... Michigan- Loving all four seasons! and yes Damn right I'M A SPARTAN!

does anyone know if that shoe thing is true??

"An extensive search of the area turned up no indication of Christopher's whereabouts. A year and a half later, one of his sneakers was found 300 yards southwest of the campsite, in an area that had already been searched. The shoe appeared very weathered, as if they had been exposed to the elements for a long time." --- Christopher Alan Temple – The Charley Project