MI MI - Dean 'Deanie' Pyle Peters, 13, Grand Rapids, 5 Feb 1981

[BethAnn777]

I saw this first thing this morning. All reports are very vague but they must have some good info to be able to make an arrest all these years later. I'll be following.

Jim’s Facebook. His profile pic is scary!
Jim Frisbie

 

[chaddylex]

On the Deanie Peters: WZZM 13 Investigates FB page - a guy mentioned that Jim Frisbie should be looked at bac in 2014!
(wasn't sure if we were allowed to link it here or not)

 

[Nina Michigan]

I'm really happy to see progress in Deanie's case.

 

[dulldullmike]

Jim’s Facebook. His profile pic is scary!

Looks like he is very (or likes to look) religious. I can't wait to find out what they got on him.

 

[Lavender Moon]

Jim’s Facebook. His profile pic is scary!
Jim Frisbie

Yes, scary to the nth degree. Everything is scary on those pages.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

‘It would be wonderful to have closure,’ Deanie Peters’ family friend says of her 1981 disappearance

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A man’s arrest for perjury in connection with the 40-year-old disappearance of a Kent County teen is bringing hope to friends of the teen’s family.

Hope for closure. Hope the decades-old mystery will be solved.

“They have suffered terribly over the past 40 years,” Ariadyne Herbert said of Deanie Peters’ family.

“They need closure and that’s what I pray for,” she said.

Peters was 14 when she went missing while attending a Forest Hills Central Middle School wrestling practice. She was reported to be headed to the bathroom but never returned.

Related: Man charged with perjury in investigation of Deanie Peters’ 1981 disappearance

Herbert was in the school gym talking with Peters’ mother just before the teen went missing.

Kent County sheriff’s deputies recently arrested 61-year-old James Frisbie of Alto on a perjury charge. Prosecutors allege he lied during testimony for an investigative subpoena.

“He made false statements regarding information, knowledge, and/or his prior involvement in the investigation, including, but not limited to statements he made to law enforcement and others about possible suspects and or witnesses,” a Kent County sheriff’s detective wrote in a probable-cause affidavit.

Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker and others close to the case say they cannot divulge further details about Frisbie’s connection to the Deanie Peters case or what they believe he might know.

Related: A look back: the investigation of missing Deanie Peters

A judge issued a $300,000 bond and, as of Wednesday, July 21, Frisbie was still in the Kent County Jail. A probable cause hearing is scheduled for August in the case.

Becker said the investigative subpoena -- and arrests for allegedly not telling the truth -- are fairly common in significant investigations.

“It’s part of the process. We do all kinds of investigative subpoenas for many homicides, not all of them this old. It may lead to something and it may not. It all depends on how things develop as the investigation unfolds,” he said.

“It does show we are working on it,” he said. “But to think that somehow tomorrow there is going to be something solved, that’s not necessarily the case.

“We just have to be patient through all of this. We’re working on it and we’ll see where it takes us. Even I don’t know at this point in time,” Becker said.

Herbert thinks Frisbie might know something. She hopes he can provide information that will lead to the discovery of her remains so that they “can have a Christian burial.”

Multiple investigators have spent decades interviewing people across the country and in Kent County, and sometimes digging in areas where her remains were rumored to lie.

“All this would take is for one person to open up and talk,” Herbert said. “It would be wonderful to have closure.”

‘It would be wonderful to have closure,’ Deanie Peters’ family friend says of her 1981 disappearance

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Family hopes arrest in Deanie Peters case clears name of longtime suspect GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The family of a longtime suspect in the disappearance 40 years ago of Deanie Peters hopes the recent arrest of another man in the case will clear his name
Family hopes arrest in Deanie Peters case ... - WOODTV.com

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Perjury suspect in Deanie Peters cold case pointed finger at his late friend: testimony

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A man charged with perjury in the cold-case investigation of a 14-year-old girl’s disappearance allegedly implicated his late friend, testimony showed.

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Dean’s birthday.

 

[theshadow45]

As of yesterday, Dean has been missing for 41 years.

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Dean’s birthday.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Anniversary of disappearance today.

 

[spartanx]

I have the impression that Bunch has the answers but he's already dead.. I think she Dean met someone in the bathroom hallway or outside the school and they got into some altercation and this new suspect is involved in her kidnapping murder and concealment of the body...
rest in peace dean

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Dean’s birthday.

 

[theshadow45]

Dean has been missing for 43 years today.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

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ADA, Mich. — During a wrestling meet at Forest Hills Central Middle School, Deanie Peters told her mother that she needed to use the restroom, got up, and walked away

It would be decades before the first arrest would be made.

"James Frisbie made false statements while under oath pursuant to that subpoena issued to investigate a cold case homicide. He made false statements regarding information, knowledge, and/or his prior involvement in the investigation, including but not limited to statements he made to law enforcement and others about possible suspects and or witnesses,"
—Court documents in perjury case filed against James Douglas Frisbie relating to Deanie Peters' disappearance

Perjury— the only charge in a homicide investigation then ongoing for 40 years.

Now 64-year-old James Douglas Frisbie was arrested in 2021— his defense attorneys continuing to fight the charges.

'We still don't know': No answers 43 years after Deanie Peters went missing

43 years on since teenager Deanie Peters went missing following her brother's wrestling match at a West Michigan middle school and still nobody has been charged for her disappearance

www.fox17online.com

 

[theshadow45]

Today is Dean’s birthday.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

It was on Feb. 5 nearly 44 years ago that Deanie Peters disappeared from Forest Hills Central Middle School. For Kathy Weeks Kingma, a childhood friend of Peters, it feels like yesterday.

We met at school and just became fast friends," said Kingma Friday. "I know there's 10 people that would say that her personality was truly a ray of sunshine. ... No mother, brother, sister should ever, ever have to go through that, ever."

‘Hold on to hope’: Ionia County woman not giving up on decades-old cold case

After the human remains of Kevin Graves were identified Thursday, hope has been reignited for one Ionia County woman after her childhood friend went missing four decades ago.

www.fox17online.com

 

[theshadow45]

Dean has been missing for 44 years today.

 

[Deleted member 50844]

Bump for Deanie