CO CHRISTOPHER ABEYTA: Missing from Colorado Springs, CO - 15 July 1986 - Age 7 months

Christopher's photo is shown age-progressed to 32 years. He was discovered missing from his crib in the early hours of July 15, 1986.
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In the early morning hours of July 15, 1986, Christopher's parents couldn't locate their son. They had put him to bed at midnight and found his crib empty in the morning. Their garage door opener was missing and a basement window was open. Christopher has never been heard from again. At 6:30 a.m., his parents alerted the police. Arriving officers couldn't find any signs of forced entry, but the front door was unlocked on the night of his disappearance.

Members of Christopher's family initially seemed like potential suspects in his case. His parents had separated prior to his disappearance but were reconciling, and the night of Christopher's disappearance was the first night his father had spent in the home since the separation. His mother failed two polygraph exams, which she attributed to a withdrawal from tranquilizers.

Authorities haven't cleared either of Christopher's parents of involvement in the case or charged them in connection with it. Three weeks after he vanished, they drained Quail Lake, three blocks from the family's home, to search for his body. They recovered nothing.

Christopher's family member refuse to consider him deceased. They believe he and his guardians don't know he's an abducted child. Christopher's loved ones operate a site featuring information about his case. Texas and New Mexico top the list of his possible locations. According to the website, the family had been receiving hang-up phone calls for about six months before Christopher disappeared. The calls stopped when he vanished, then resumed again several months later.

His sister believes the abductor was Emma Bradshaw, a woman who'd had an affair with Christopher's father and had a history of break-ins. Bradshaw maintains her innocence in the baby's disappearance and the police have not named her as a suspect. In 2015, Bradshaw won a civil judgement for $150,000 against Christopher's sister for interfering with her employment.

Some time after Christopher's disappearance, the Colorado Springs Police Department destroyed most of the case evidence; his family accused them of negligence and incompetence in their investigation. His disappearance remains unsolved.


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Missing From: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. Missing Date: 07/15/1986. Christopher's photo is shown age-progressed to 32 years. He was discovered missing from his crib in the early hours of July 15, 1986.

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CHRISTOPHER ABEYTA: Missing from Colorado Springs, CO since 15 July 1986 - Age 7 months

Seven-month-old Christopher Abeyta was abducted from his parents' home in Colorado Springs on the morning of July 15, 1986. They had put him to bed around midnight and found his crib empty early the next morning

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Christopher Abeyta disappeared from his crib 40 years ago​

It has been 40 years since Christopher Abeyta was taken from his crib in Colorado, and his family has yet to give up on their efforts to bring him home.


His sister described the night.

“It was a calm night. It was a peaceful night, summertime, and we had company over for dinner,” Denise Alves said. “My mom and dad had been separated, but they’d been reconciling, so he was over at the house.”

The family and friends watched Christopher mark a milestone.

“We did a pretend sneeze, and he laughed again, and he pulled himself up onto the coffee table. That was the first time ever that he pulled himself up,” Alves said.

Alves gave her brother his bottle, and she and her mom put him to bed in his crib. But by morning, everything had changed.

At 6 a.m., Bernice Abeyta woke and saw that Christopher wasn’t in his crib. She went to check whether one of her six other children had taken him a bottle, but they were asleep. In a panic, she woke them.

“What I remember most out of it was her eyes and her looking at me, and it was fear,” Alves said. “Like I’ve never seen my mom before.”

The house quickly filled with family and police.

“It was very calm, there was no tape. They weren’t taping off the house, there were no fingerprints taken,” Alves said. “Even though a baby was gone and missing, it was like someone had stolen a bike.”

Police questioned the family. It was then that Gil Abeyta admitted he was having an affair.

“My parents had been separated since March. That night Christopher was taken was the first night he stayed in the house. They had been reconciling,” Alves said.

In the early days, however, police focused on Bernice Abeyta.

The family hired private investigators, tracking every lead. Then, in January of 1987, they began getting hang-up calls, just like calls they had gotten before Christopher went missing.

Police put a tracer on the phone and traced the calls ot the office of the woman Gil Abeyta had been having an affair with.

Bernice Abeyta asked her husband to remain in contact with the woman, in case there was a connection to Christopher’s disappearance. The woman asked him to haul out some trash from her mother’s house.

Gil Abeyta obliged, and he and his wife sorted through it on their lawn, finding phone records for the hang-up calls, both to their home and Christopher’s grandparents’ home.

“The phone bill was from her mother’s house, but it had my mother’s parents’ phone number as a number they made [calls] to them,” Alves said. “So the victim’s grandparents’ number is on their phone bill. Why are they calling one month before my brother is taken?”

Police say they checked the woman out but said they did not have enough probable cause to make an arrest.

In the course of the family’s investigations, they found she had been charged with harassing another man she’d had an affair with.

“What we know about this woman, by court records and other people’s records, is that she walked into other people’s homes,” Alves said. “She literally broke into other people’s homes, men she was having relationships with. So she’s capable of that.”


Forty years after Christopher disappeared, his parents are gone. It’s now his siblings who are left trying to find him.

“He was taken, and if he was murdered out of revenge, somebody has gotten away with that. A baby. If he was taken and he’s living out there having a life … he has the right to know he had a family,” Alves said. “It’s weird saying 40 years because it doesn’t feel like 40 years.”

Wait, what? I don't remember hearing about all these details before! So what happened to "the woman"?? Is she still alive? Did she continue to be a creepy stalker type? I have so many questions.

 

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Wait, what? I don't remember hearing about all these details before! So what happened to "the woman"?? Is she still alive? Did she continue to be a creepy stalker type? I have so many questions.

They never had enough to charge her with.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Wait, what? I don't remember hearing about all these details before! So what happened to "the woman"?? Is she still alive? Did she continue to be a creepy stalker type? I have so many questions.

His family's been suspicious of her since very early on.
If you check out the Facebook page, they aren't shy about posting details that MSM won't cover.