TX TX - Joshua Davis, 18 months, New Braunfels, 4 Feb 2011 - #6
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I have to say, as a mum & an aunt who watched her nieces and nephews when they were that age, you can't really dismiss the possibilities of what a toddler is capable of doing, or will attempt to do. All it takes is one time of them trying something out, and they may be successful at it. Like the time my nephew climbed up on the sideboard in an attempt to reach the candy on top of a cupboard. Still don't know how he got up there. Anyway, I've been surprised over the years and caught off guard by what a toddler can do, especially when your back is turned.
I have to say, as a mum & an aunt who watched her nieces and nephews when they were that age, you can't really dismiss the possibilities of what a toddler is capable of doing, or will attempt to do. All it takes is one time of them trying something out, and they may be successful at it. Like the time my nephew climbed up on the sideboard in an attempt to reach the candy on top of a cupboard. Still don't know how he got up there. Anyway, I've been surprised over the years and caught off guard by what a toddler can do, especially when your back is turned.
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A decade after a toddler vanished:
plenty of accusations, few answers
Boy's family, New Braunfels Police Department disagree about state of investigation
(New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung)
plenty of accusations, few answers
Boy's family, New Braunfels Police Department disagree about state of investigation
(New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung)
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Joshua Jayvaughn Davis Jr. – The Charley Project
Last updated January 30, 2021; details of disappearance updated.
Details of Disappearance
Joshua was last seen in the kitchen area of his family's mobile home in the 2600 block of Savannah Hills Circle in New Braunfels, Texas between 8:00 and 8:20 p.m. on February 4, 2011. He lived with his parents and his older brother, and his mother was eight months pregnant with a boy. His parents were hosting a party that night and there were nine people in the house, including Joshua. He disappeared sometime before 9:00 p.m. and has never been heard from again.
Joshua is described as a very mobile toddler, and the front door to his home didn't latch properly. Authorities initially believed he had wandered away. They conducted an extensive search of the neighborhood, but they found no sign of him and tracker dogs couldn't pick up his scent. If he had been without shelter, he couldn't have survived long; the night he disappeared, temperatures dropped to 19 degrees Fahrenheit.
Because they were unable to find Joshua in the local area, investigators began to look into other possible causes of his disappearance. His parents said they believed he had been abducted and suggested a family friend as a possible suspect. The friend had visited the mobile home on the night of February 4 and left shortly before Joshua was discovered missing. He reportedly gave conflicting stories about that night and refused to take a polygraph test.
Authorities stated the evidence shows Joshua was possibly injured, and then removed from the home, before he was reported missing. They believe one or more of the adults in the house that night is lying or knows more than they have disclosed about the child's disappearance, but no one has been named as a suspect. Police stated they had been able to confirm that Joshua was missing for 45 to 60 minutes before 911 was called, and that in the meantime there was a family meeting and illegal drugs were removed from the scene and disposed of. Joshua's mother stated there was only a ten-minute delay in calling 911, and that time was spent looking for Joshua outside.
The circumstances of Joshua's disappearance are unclear, and his parents maintain their innocence in his case and have alleged the police did not do enough to try to find their son. His case remains unsolved.
Last updated January 30, 2021; details of disappearance updated.
Details of Disappearance
Joshua was last seen in the kitchen area of his family's mobile home in the 2600 block of Savannah Hills Circle in New Braunfels, Texas between 8:00 and 8:20 p.m. on February 4, 2011. He lived with his parents and his older brother, and his mother was eight months pregnant with a boy. His parents were hosting a party that night and there were nine people in the house, including Joshua. He disappeared sometime before 9:00 p.m. and has never been heard from again.
Joshua is described as a very mobile toddler, and the front door to his home didn't latch properly. Authorities initially believed he had wandered away. They conducted an extensive search of the neighborhood, but they found no sign of him and tracker dogs couldn't pick up his scent. If he had been without shelter, he couldn't have survived long; the night he disappeared, temperatures dropped to 19 degrees Fahrenheit.
Because they were unable to find Joshua in the local area, investigators began to look into other possible causes of his disappearance. His parents said they believed he had been abducted and suggested a family friend as a possible suspect. The friend had visited the mobile home on the night of February 4 and left shortly before Joshua was discovered missing. He reportedly gave conflicting stories about that night and refused to take a polygraph test.
Authorities stated the evidence shows Joshua was possibly injured, and then removed from the home, before he was reported missing. They believe one or more of the adults in the house that night is lying or knows more than they have disclosed about the child's disappearance, but no one has been named as a suspect. Police stated they had been able to confirm that Joshua was missing for 45 to 60 minutes before 911 was called, and that in the meantime there was a family meeting and illegal drugs were removed from the scene and disposed of. Joshua's mother stated there was only a ten-minute delay in calling 911, and that time was spent looking for Joshua outside.
The circumstances of Joshua's disappearance are unclear, and his parents maintain their innocence in his case and have alleged the police did not do enough to try to find their son. His case remains unsolved.
Above quote from CP.
Watching the Missing 411 movies and the CanAm Missing Person Project (Dave Paulides), two things jump out at me from this quote.
First, several missing persons cases involve SAR dogs not being able to pick up a scent, or following a scent and then totally losing it. A little boy who went missing from his dad's pickup was found by a searcher with a dog, in an area that had already been searched by dogs. The searcher became lost, and just happened to hunker down for the night a few feet away from where the boy's body was under the snow. His dog found him the next day. It didn't give the exact mileage from where the truck was the body was found because the searcher attempted to carry him out, but it was a long, long way. Which leads me to the next thing that bothers me.
Distance. If Joshua did get out of the house on his own, and searchers stuck to the neighborhood, then they did Joshua a disservice. Toddlers are fast, like lightning, and can cover great distances in a short amount of time, even if its just going in circles. In missing 411, one little boy was found a couple of miles away from where he went missing, but based on his tracks, he had traveled 12 miles total in less than 24 hours.
I believe there's a chance Joshua did get out of that house on his own, and he could have been far away by the time he was missed and searching began in earnest. Also, it's not uncommon for a missing person to show up in a place that was searched multiple times before.
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Grandma of missing boy sad watching search unfold for Lina Khil | kens5.com
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NV said watching the ongoing search for Lina reminds her of when her grandson, Joshua Davis, suddenly vanished from his family's mobile home in New Braunfels. He was 18-months-old at the time, and would be age 11 now.
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In January 2021, New Braunfels police told KENS 5 in a press release that Joshua's case is considered suspicious in nature and said investigators were "frustrated and disappointed in the level of cooperation from some members of the immediate family who have repeatedly lied and misled detectives".
Police added they believe at least one of the adults in the home at the time of Joshua's disappearance knows what happened to him. NV disagreed.
"It's pretty much protocol. So I understand the need for them to question [family]. The police and I have different views of what happened, and different theories. In my case, they believe that something happened, somebody was covering it up and that something happened to Joshua. I disagree with that only because anything is possible," said NV.
For now, Vargas is holding onto the possibility that Joshua will be found and alive. It's a hope she is praying for Lina's family, too.
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Grandma of missing boy sad watching search unfold for Lina Khil | kens5.com
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NV said watching the ongoing search for Lina reminds her of when her grandson, Joshua Davis, suddenly vanished from his family's mobile home in New Braunfels. He was 18-months-old at the time, and would be age 11 now.
[...]
In January 2021, New Braunfels police told KENS 5 in a press release that Joshua's case is considered suspicious in nature and said investigators were "frustrated and disappointed in the level of cooperation from some members of the immediate family who have repeatedly lied and misled detectives".
Police added they believe at least one of the adults in the home at the time of Joshua's disappearance knows what happened to him. NV disagreed.
"It's pretty much protocol. So I understand the need for them to question [family]. The police and I have different views of what happened, and different theories. In my case, they believe that something happened, somebody was covering it up and that something happened to Joshua. I disagree with that only because anything is possible," said NV.
For now, Vargas is holding onto the possibility that Joshua will be found and alive. It's a hope she is praying for Lina's family, too.
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I am still suspicious of the family friend that came over, then left for a short while, came back, then left again shortly after.
" The friend had visited the mobile home on the night of February 4 and left shortly before Joshua was discovered missing. He reportedly gave conflicting stories about that night and refused to take a polygraph test."
" The friend had visited the mobile home on the night of February 4 and left shortly before Joshua was discovered missing. He reportedly gave conflicting stories about that night and refused to take a polygraph test."
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I wish someone involved in the cover-up of little Joshua's "disapperance" will finally go to police with the truth.
It might be interesting to know what each person who lived at or spent time at the home that day have been up to since then. Getting away with murder probably makes a person feel invincible, making it that much easier to victimize another child- or anyone, really.
MOO
It might be interesting to know what each person who lived at or spent time at the home that day have been up to since then. Getting away with murder probably makes a person feel invincible, making it that much easier to victimize another child- or anyone, really.
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I agree, katydid23.
Did he do something to Joshua, or did he help with "disposal?
Did both of the parents know what happened and conspire to cover it up, or did only one parent call the shots?
What do you think?
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I followed this case very closely when it was unfolding, but I need to go back and reread the early threads to clarify a few things now.
I remember feeling suspicious about the family friend and wondering if maybe he left and accidentally ran over the child, or saw the child outside and a decided to take him or whatever...? I wish we knew more about him.
I never felt the mom was guilty of anything. She was 8 months pregnant, exhausted and didn't feel well. I think she was resting and assumed her husband was watching the boy.
Her husband made me a bit suspicious. He was partying with his buddies and watching the Basketball game with them. It was said that they had to dispose of drugs before cops arrived but I dont know if it was just pot or what.
If it was coke or meth, then I would wonder if he had gotten angry at the boy for being noisy or difficult, and maybe smacked him or punished him too harshly?
If it was just pot, then it makes sense that he maybe just lost track of the boy, didn't notice he was missing? But if the child was outside wandering, I really think he would have been found somewhere by now. So I do believe SOMEONE intervened in some ways, if the toddler had been outside that night.
Which keeps bringing me back to the family friend.
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In terms of the family friend, it is hard for me to believe that he would cover, for all this time, for the family if they harmed the boy.
I think he would have asked for immunity and told what happened if he was only helping them dispose of the evidence and wasn't involved in harming him.
So I think that either the friend was the perp, and took the child himself---
OR
the boy was harmed accidentally or otherwise by someone in the home, and the family has pointed at the friend as deflection.
I think he would have asked for immunity and told what happened if he was only helping them dispose of the evidence and wasn't involved in harming him.
So I think that either the friend was the perp, and took the child himself---
OR
the boy was harmed accidentally or otherwise by someone in the home, and the family has pointed at the friend as deflection.
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On Feb. 4, 2011, Joshua Davis was running from room to room playing in the family home in New Braunfels, Texas.
His mother Sabrina Jackson who was pregnant at the time, remembers it like it was just yesterday.
"It was freezing cold that day," Jackson recalled.
Also, in that home, the night Joshua disappeared was his father, grandparents, and two family friends.
"You wouldn't think that your child would vanish under circumstances like that," Jackson said.
She continued, "I was in the room, pregnant at the time we were watching Toy Story, I opened the door he was going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth."
When Jackson noticed he didn't return to her room for a while, she went to check on him, but no one had seen him.
"There was only one person that left that home at the time, and that was the last time I saw my son; I haven't seen that person who left since that person vanished," Jackson said.
The family claims when they called the family friend who had left the home, he said Joshua followed him out into the cold, so he brought him back inside before he left. Sabrina's mother, Natalie Varga tells FOX 26 that when he showed up to be questioned by police that same night, he had an attorney present.
New Braunfels police said every person that was in that house the night of Joshua's disappearance has been interviewed multiple times and a recent statement from them ruled out an abduction Police believe Joshua may have been injured and then intentionally removed from the home.
"They came up with this theory that there were drugs in the home, my grandson got ahold of these drugs, and something happened, but there's never been any evidence, nobody's ever been arrested," Varga said.
"Them people were always treating me like I was the number one suspect, and I understand it's an ongoing investigation, but I've been nothing but cooperative," said Jackson.
"I believe wholeheartedly my son is out there waiting to come home. I see all these stories of kids found years later and reunited with their families, and I hold onto hope and remain strong that soon that'll be my son coming home to us," she said.
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His mother Sabrina Jackson who was pregnant at the time, remembers it like it was just yesterday.
"It was freezing cold that day," Jackson recalled.
Also, in that home, the night Joshua disappeared was his father, grandparents, and two family friends.
"You wouldn't think that your child would vanish under circumstances like that," Jackson said.
She continued, "I was in the room, pregnant at the time we were watching Toy Story, I opened the door he was going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth."
When Jackson noticed he didn't return to her room for a while, she went to check on him, but no one had seen him.
"There was only one person that left that home at the time, and that was the last time I saw my son; I haven't seen that person who left since that person vanished," Jackson said.
The family claims when they called the family friend who had left the home, he said Joshua followed him out into the cold, so he brought him back inside before he left. Sabrina's mother, Natalie Varga tells FOX 26 that when he showed up to be questioned by police that same night, he had an attorney present.
New Braunfels police said every person that was in that house the night of Joshua's disappearance has been interviewed multiple times and a recent statement from them ruled out an abduction Police believe Joshua may have been injured and then intentionally removed from the home.
"They came up with this theory that there were drugs in the home, my grandson got ahold of these drugs, and something happened, but there's never been any evidence, nobody's ever been arrested," Varga said.
"Them people were always treating me like I was the number one suspect, and I understand it's an ongoing investigation, but I've been nothing but cooperative," said Jackson.
"I believe wholeheartedly my son is out there waiting to come home. I see all these stories of kids found years later and reunited with their families, and I hold onto hope and remain strong that soon that'll be my son coming home to us," she said.
THE MISSING: 18-month-old Joshua Davis disappeared from home 12 years ago
FOX 26 continues to shed light on those who have vanished from the Greater Houston area. Gabby Hart brings us the story of an 18-month-old boy who went missing while he was under the same roof as his mom and grandparents.
This case breaks my heart.
I truly think this is a case of where no one was watching Joshua, except for the mother whenever he was in the bedroom with her. Then he got out of the home, wandered off, and hasn't been found yet. The fact his mother said when she went looking for him, no one had seen him, indicates to me they were not paying attention to his comings and goings, not mindful of his presence.
I can't remember, what were Joshua's older siblings up to while he was wandering in and out of the bedroom?
I truly think this is a case of where no one was watching Joshua, except for the mother whenever he was in the bedroom with her. Then he got out of the home, wandered off, and hasn't been found yet. The fact his mother said when she went looking for him, no one had seen him, indicates to me they were not paying attention to his comings and goings, not mindful of his presence.
I can't remember, what were Joshua's older siblings up to while he was wandering in and out of the bedroom?
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Bumping up for Joshua. I can't find any new articles since the last post in this thread, but what a tragic case. Joshua remains missing and would currently be 15-years-old.
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