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| 1985 Mayfield, Michael and Pamela, 01/10/85; Houston | |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 14 2006, 05:16 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mayfield_michael.html![]() ![]() Paper: HOUSTON CHRONICLE Date: TUE 11/19/1985 Section: 1 Page: 17 Edition: NO STAR Two who vanished: No suspects, no leads By BONNIE BRITT Staff Perhaps the most widely publicized ongoing case of child kidnapping in Houston involves Pamela and Michael Mayfield, ages 6 and 7, who nearly a year ago left their northeast Houston school and headed for home. No one who knows them has seen them since. The two Houston kindergarten students have been missing for 310 days - since Jan. 10 - and they are believed kidnapped. Police have no suspects and no leads in the case. Their parents, Cynthia and Michael Gant, are separated but not divorced. The children were born before their parents' marriage and were registered in school in their mother's maiden name. The children lived primarily with their maternal grandmother in an apartment in the 3500 block of Des Chaumes in northeast Houston. Both children attended kindergarten at Betsy Ross School, 2819 Bay at the Eastex Freeway. Michael was repeating the kindergarten year. He stutters and has a burn scar on his right wrist. "They were not abused kids, and they did not lack for attention," says Houston police Officer Gary Montgomery who is conducting the investigation. "They got plenty of attention from both sides of the family." Montgomery, who has been with the Houston police force 23 years, checked the backgrounds of members of the Gant and Mayfield families and turned up nothing relevant to the kidnapping. Montgomery has also chased hundreds of leads, suggesting the Mayfield children were sighted in various places all over the country. He can tell where a missing children media campaign is in progress by the return address on letters reporting possible sightings of the Mayfield children. But all the tips coming have led nowhere, except one phone call that Montgomery believes may yet provide a clue to the case that has confounded police since the beginning. On the evening of May 12, a man who sounded like an elderly black phoned the Houston police dispatcher to say the children "in the so-called kidnapping" are doing fine and are living near 75th Street in Los Angeles with their grandmother. When the dispatcher asked how the caller knew, he replied, "I know," and hung up without giving his n!me. The HPD asked the FBI to check all known addresses of relatives of the Gant and Mayfield families living in Los Angeles. Montgomery said, "If whoever has them had any contact with street people with whom law enforcement has contact, we would know that. But we don't have an address so that lead too is something of a dead end." Even so, Montgomery said this tip is considered more valid than hundreds of others received because it came from a person claiming to know the children's whereabouts. No other tips were as specific, Montgomery said. The children were reared primarily by the maternal grandmother, Lillie Mayfield, who experienced a heart attack shortly after the children disappeared. The youngsters visited sometimes with their mother, Cynthia Gant, who lives with her boyfriend, Bernard March. And, the children visited their father, his girlfriend, Sheronda Carolyn Martin, 22, and the father's relatives over the Christmas holidays and at other times. "This is a mystery. They may have gone with someone they trusted. They knew not to go to strangers," Montgomery says. "None of the family can think of anyone who would have taken the children. I feel it must have been someone who had prior contact with them, however briefly, through relatives on either side of the family. We are treating it as a kidnap. We have no reason to believe they are dead," Montgomery says. "This is not a sex crime. My gut feeling is that a relative or a friend has them." Montgomery asked all key family members to take polygraph tests and to appear before a grand jury. Everyone complied, but no new clues were discovered. The case has been entered on the FBI's National Crime Computer. Montgomery plans next to send letters and photos to schools in the Los Angeles area. The investigation was hampered because the family lacked recent photographs of the children. The pictures of the Mayfield children appearing in the national media and on milk cartons were taken when Pamela was 3 and Michael was 4. Family and friends said they knew of no more recent photographs of Michael and Pamela. But last week, a teacher at the Head-Start nursery school produced a photograph of Pamela taken when she performed in a school play. And, the children's kindergarten instructor who is now teaching in the Aldine Independent School District found negatives of pictures she shot of the class that included the Mayfield children. Tho newly discovered photographs will replace those circulated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc., is the only group to have come forward with a reward for information in the case. The service organization offered $500 in April but so far no one is claiming the reward. Anyone with information is asked to call HPD juvenile division at 222-3881. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 14 2006, 05:16 PM Post #2 |
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Paper: HOUSTON CHRONICLE Date: TUE 05/14/1985 Section: 1 Page: 3 Edition: NO STAR Houston brother, sister missing without a trace By MARK CARREAU Staff Thousands of photographs of Michael and Pamela Mayfield of Houston have been printed on milk cartons and their images broadcast on national television since they disappeared four months ago. But Houston police say have no leads on the whereabouts of the brother, 6, and sister, 5, who disappeared as they walked home from Betsy Ross Elementary School in northeast Houston Jan. 10. The case - tragic for the youngsters' mother, Cynthia Gant, and frustrating for investigators - is the exception rather than the rule. Sgt. Steve Gregg said Houston police receive 5,000 missing persons reports a year involving children 17 and younger, and he believes the number is falling. Most of the youngsters leave home voluntarily, he said. Some are gone several days, many only several hours. About 95 percent of the missing persons cases reported here are solved, Gregg said. About 600 law enforcement agencies in Texas share information of missing persons through their computer link with the FBI's National Crime Information Center. The information is accepted for distribution only after agencies agree to fill out a missing persons report. Last year, 26,365 such reports from Texas were placed on the NCIC computers and 25,024, or 95 percent, of the missing were eventually accounted for, said Steve Elliott, manager of the Texas Department of Public Safety's fingerprint and records bureau. While those figures represent people of all ages, the latest DPS analysis available reveals that about 87 percent are 17 or younger, said Elliott. Houston police attempt to evaluate each missing person report on a case by case basis. They generally respond immediately when the missing person is 9 or younger and the next working day when the person is older, said Gregg. If an older juvenile has a history of running away, he said, the case will receive a lower priority than one of the same age who disappears for the first time. At any one time, Houston police are looking for 130 to 140 missing people. If a person is reported as missing but later found to have been a victim of a murder or an aggravated rape, that case is placed in the more appropriate crime category, Gregg said. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 7 2007, 01:06 AM Post #3 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mayfield_michael.html Michael Mayfield Left: Mayfield, circa 1985; Right: Age-progression at age 27 (circa 2005) Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: January 10, 1985 from Houston, Texas Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date Of Birth: June 6, 1978 Age: 6 years old Height and Weight: 3'0, 75 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Michael stuttered at the time of his disappearance. He has a burn scar on his right wrist. He may use the last name Gant. Details of Disappearance Michael and his younger sister, Pamela Mayfield, were walking back to their family's residence from Betsy Ross Elementary School in the 2900 block of Bay Street at the Eastex Freeway in northeast Houston, Texas on January 10, 1985. They were both kindergarten students at the school; Pamela was in kindergarten for the first time and Michael was repeating it. Neither of the children arrived home and they have never been heard from again. In May 1985, four months after the children's disappearances, a man called the Houston police to say that Michael and Pamela had not been kidnapped and were living with their grandmother on 75th Street in Los Angeles, California. The Mayfields do have relatives in Los Angeles, but none of them had the children or knew where they were. The caller has not been identified but his voice sounded as if he was an elderly African-American. Michael and Pamela lived with their maternal grandmother in the 3500 block of Des Chaumes Street in Houston at the time of their disappearances. They frequently visited their parents, who were separated but not divorced in January 1985. Investigators say Michael and Pamela were loved by their family and not mistreated. Police believe they were abducted by someone they knew, such as a relative or family friend. Their cases are unsolved. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Houston Police Department 713-222-3131 Source Information The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Operation Lookout For the Lost The Houston Chronicle Updated 3 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated November 3, 2005; age-progression updated. Charley Project Home |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 7 2007, 01:07 AM Post #4 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mayfield_pamela.html Pamela Mayfield Left: Mayfield, circa 1985; Right: Age-progression at age 26 (circa 2005) Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: January 10, 1985 from Houston, Texas Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date Of Birth: July 10, 1979 Age: 5 years old Height and Weight: 2'9, 55 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Details of Disappearance Pamela and her older brother, Michael Mayfield, were walking back to their family's residence from Betsy Ross Elementary School in northeast Houston, Texas on January 10, 1985. They were both kindergarten students at the school; Pamela was in kindergarten for the first time and Michael was repeating it. Neither of the children arrived home and they have never been heard from again. In May 1985, four months after the children's disappearances, a man called the Houston police to say that Michael and Pamela had not been kidnapped and were living with their grandmother on 75th Street in Los Angeles, California. The Mayfields do have relatives in Los Angeles, but none of them had the children or knew where they were. The caller has not been identified but his voice sounded as if he was an elderly African-American. Michael and Pamela lived with their maternal grandmother in the 3500 block of Des Chaumes Street in Houston at the time of their disappearances. They frequently visited their parents, who were separated but not divorced in January 1985. Investigators say Michael and Pamela were loved by their family and not mistreated. Police believe they were abducted by someone they knew, such as a relative or family friend. Their cases are unsolved. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Houston Police Department 713-222-3131 Source Information The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Operation Lookout For the Lost The Houston Chronicle Updated 3 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated November 3, 2005; age-progression updated. Charley Project Home |
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