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struggle4progress

(118,224 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2013, 07:09 PM Mar 2013

Missing brothers case is NC's oldest unsolved disappearance

Posted: 12:53 p.m. today
Updated: 12:54 p.m. today

Fayetteville, N.C. — The case of two missing Fayetteville brothers, a 6-year-old and 11-year-old, who vanished in 1964, is the oldest unsolved disappearance on the books in North Carolina.

If Alan and Terry Westerfield were around today, they'd be 56 and 60 years old respectively. But their family believes the worst has happened.

"I've come to the conclusion that those children are dead," John McDougald, the Westerfield boys' uncle, told WRAL News nearly 14 years ago. "My whole family was completely devastated by that, and to be completely honest with you, none of us have ever gotten over it."

According to police reports, the boy's stepfather dropped them off at Fayetteville's popular Broadway Theater on Sept. 12, 1964, and they were never seen again ...

http://www.wral.com/missing-brothers-case-is-nc-s-oldest-unsolved-disappearance/12176586/

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Missing brothers case is NC's oldest unsolved disappearance (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2013 OP

Honestly, I don't know how one would ever get over that... hlthe2b Mar 2013 #1

Do you know any other details of the case? Sienna86 Mar 2013 #2

Dunno. struggle4progress Mar 2013 #4

Lyons Sisters bpj62 Mar 2013 #3

hlthe2b

(102,119 posts)

1. Honestly, I don't know how one would ever get over that...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 07:12 PM

Mar 2013

No closure. No knowing for sure... How very sad. I've always felt that way about our MIAs from Vietnam as well.... sigh

Sienna86

(2,148 posts)

2. Do you know any other details of the case?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 08:22 PM

Mar 2013

I imagine the step-father was questioned. We're there any suspects?

struggle4progress

(118,224 posts)

4. Dunno.

Reply to Sienna86 (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 11:37 PM

Mar 2013

... According to police reports, the boys' stepfather dropped them off at Fayetteville's popular Broadway Theater. When the boys vanished, authorities were not sure if the brothers ever made it to the theater. Some employees interviewed said they saw the boys, others said they did not. "Some of the people who were working at the theater at the time insisted they never showed up, because the mother was always real strict about when the movie was over, 'Don't go outside, and you wait inside, and I'll step inside and get you," Moore said ...

August 9, 1999
Center for Missing Children Reopens 35-Year-Old Fayetteville Case

... Neither child was ever heard from again and police think the boys were killed the day they disappeared. Heavy rains from hurricane Dora late that night and the next morning hampered the search. Authorities questioned the stepfather who was separated from the boys' mother, at the time. His account of what happened that evening was sketchy. Police also questioned the boys' natural father and concluded that he did not take the boys ...

Thursday, May 25, 2006
The Disappearance of The Westerfield Brothers

bpj62

(999 posts)

3. Lyons Sisters

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 11:17 PM

Mar 2013

On Good Friday in April of 1975 the Lyons sisters ages 13 and 15 were last seen walking to Wheaton Mall in Silver Spring Maryland. To this day not a trace of them had ever been found. The youngest was my age and to this day i often wonder what happened to them. Thier father eas a local radio personality on the biggest am station in DC so it made the disapearance that more personal for many parents including mine.

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