WA WA - Wallace Guidroz, 2, Tacoma, 10 Jan 1983

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

What an adorable little guy.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/06/08/1697158/father-said-day-of-play-ended.html

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Tacoma police consider next step after searching for toddler's body

After an unsuccessful search for the remains of a 2½-year-old boy who went missing in 1983, Tacoma police detectives were trying Wednesday to determine their next steps.

Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/...ch-along-tacoma-waterfront.html#ixzz1OlAGmeEz
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[Kimster]

:rose: Wallace is our featured Cold Case from 6/12 to 6/19/2011 :rose:

 

[Ambercat]

For what it's worth, authorities believe that black babies were being kidnapped and sold for adoption in New York City in the 1980s. But that's a long way away from Washington state.

That's too creepy for words. Were the babies kidnapped from New York City also or brought in from elsewhere? When you say "sold for adoption" did the families who wanted them know that they were stolen kids or did they think that it was a legitimate adoption? The only case that I can think of, off the top of my head, about a couple adopting a stolen baby is the case of Tiffany Stasi who was sold to John Robinson's brother (who thought it was a legitimate adoption).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Robinson_(serial_killer)
It is really sad to think this happens at all.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

:rose: Wallace is our featured Cold Case from 6/12 to 6/19/2011 :rose:

Thanks so much for featuring Wallace! Hopefully with this new information, he can be found soon!

 

[Ambercat]

Same man - now it looks like they think he killed his son, too......

That makes me look at this quite differently. This is an article from Louisiana about both cases:
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20110608/articles/110609475

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

That makes me look at this quite differently. This is an article from Louisiana about both cases:
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20110608/articles/110609475

Unfortunately, they searched for 1 day, and called it quits.

Here's a map of the area. Point Defiance Park is where his father said he was kidnapped. LE was searching an area along Ruston Way about 4 miles from the park. (so it's probably not the exact search point, but fairly close) There's a jogging trail along the water, also. And quite a few restaurants and shops.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...95384&sspn=0.078023,0.209255&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14

 

[smile22]

so said that he possibly killed wallace. in his picture he looks so full of life and happy and he had to have his life ended way to soon. if the father thought he would want to kill him why not get some help and say listen i am in danger of killing my son. i wonder if stanley had a temper. i wonder if wallace on that day was being bad like not listining and the father couldn't stand it?

 

[burbqueen]

poor baby. RIP.

 

[TickleB]

They are digging in the park where the boy vanished? If his father buried him there wouldn't there be witnesses?

 

[smile22]

unless he did it at night when no one was around

 

[marie-chantal]

How awful. I just noticed this case for the first time (I saw this little guy's picture on the home page of WS). He was such a darling little boy. I can't imagine how/why anyone would hurt him. RIP Wallace. I hope they are able to find his body in order to give him a proper burial.

 

[STEADFAST]

Map and location views.

Red circles the area seen being searched along Ruston Way on KOMO News.

Search pics from video here: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/123364958.html


http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/06/08/v-lite/1697158/father-said-day-of-play-ended.html

http://search.tacomapubliclibrary.o...nd+Tacoma+&stemming=&phonic=&fuzzy=&maxfiles=

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/recycle_old/success/1-pagers/asarco.htm

ETA In the one picture where I say it's looking toward the park and downtown, ect., I don't mean Point Defiance Park. I mean Marine Park. The photo is actually looking away from the direction of Point Defiance Park.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I went and drove by the waterfront this morning. It's such a beautiful area. Such a quiet, peaceful morning. A few walkers/joggers. A few families with children walking around.

It broke my heart to think of Wallace being "disposed of" there, somewhere.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Missing toddler case from 1983 officially called homicide

Wallace Guidroz has been presumed dead for years.

Now, there’s a death certificate to make it official.

Last week, the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office issued a presumed death certificate for Wallace, the curly-haired 2 1/2-year-old Fife boy who vanished Jan. 10, 1983, while on a fishing trip at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park with his father.

The certificate lists his cause of death as a blunt force injury to the head and the date of his death as the day he went missing. The presumed manner of death: homicide.

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Miller consulted with a forensic anthropologist about whether Wallace’s remains could be found at all. The anthropologist said it was unlikely, based on the type of soil, ground conditions, moisture and the boy’s age.

“While we might have been digging in the right spot, we wouldn’t be able to locate the remains,” Miller said.

Miller recently took his case to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office for review, and examiners issued the presumed death certificate last week.

“The case is concluded from an investigatory standpoint and is in the Prosecutor’s Office,” Miller said. “They will be reviewing the case” for possible charges.

Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/06/21/1714180/missing-toddlers-case-officially.html#ixzz1PwL6QpVi
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[ctaylor]

http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20110718/ARTICLES/110719480/1212?Title=Search-for-boy-s-body-fails

A Houma man awaiting trail in the stabbing death of his wife told police where to find the body of his toddler son, but authorities said they have been unable to locate the site where he was allegedly buried 28 years ago.

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[Ambercat]

I didn't notice it until someone else pointed it out to me, but on one of the photos of Wallace, he looks like he has a black eye. Originally, I thought the light in the photo was just bad. That is really disturbing. I wonder if anyone noticed that something was not right before his "disappearance." So sad.

 

[Bobby88]

Since Wallace's father is now believed to have killed and buried him, I take it that it's safe to assume that this mystery couple and their little girl never existed to begin with? Or if they did, they may have simply been conversing with Stanley and Wallace (obviously they weren't the ones who abducted Wallace) and after Stanley killed his son, he decided to concoct a story involving them in order to take any suspicion off himself.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

*bump* for Wallace. Missing 29 years now. I wonder if he will ever be recovered.

 

[Nocgirl]

A news article on this case as of today:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/04/16/2109301/man-may-face-charges-in-sons-1983.html

This case has always intrigued me. What motive did he have to kill his son?