AL JOHNATHAN BOLEY: Missing from Jasper, AL - 31 December 2025 - Age 4 *Found Deceased* (1 Viewer)

4-year-old Alabama boy vanished Wednesday morning; search ongoing

Johnathan Everett Boley, 4, was last seen about 11:30 a.m. in the 7000 block of Highway 195 in Jasper.

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4-year-old Alabama boy vanished Wednesday morning; search ongoing​

The search is ongoing for an Alabama boy missing since late Wednesday morning.

Johnathan Everett Boley, 4, was last seen about 11:30 a.m. in the 7000 block of Highway 195 in Jasper.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency issued an Emergency Missing Child Alert, and a lookout bullet for Johnathan was even broadcast over police radios in Jefferson County early Wednesday afternoon.


Sheriff Nick Smith Johnathan could be with a black dog.

“This dog was supposed to be with a missing child from Thach and has not been found also,” Smith posted on Facebook. “Finding this dog could help us in finding the missing child.”

The sheriff also asked that anyone in the of Highway 95 check their cameras, especially deer cameras placed in wooded areas.

Details surrounding the boy’s disappearance have not been released.


Media - JOHNATHAN BOLEY: Missing from Jasper, AL - 31 December 2025 - Age 5

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'm trying to recap and think in my head but maybe I need to think out loud on here.

So...

At minimum we could have a lack of supervision here and to the other end of that, a dad messed up on meth, busy making meth or explosives, etc.

The dog was found with the boy. The dog was alive, the boy was not. It appears what the brother said may be true.

2 miles away. Not unheard of and just 2 hours before that the sheriff was saying cases where a dog is with kids sometimes go a whole lot farther too, but we all know they can with or without dogs, but makes sense...

Dad has explosives and meth and/or chemicals and all are bad signs with kids in home and he has been charged with things relating to both... Mom claimed domestic abuse, strangulation attempt I think and said she was worried she or the boys would end up dead at his hands one day. That's pretty striking right now... Mom left dad. Was it about a year ago I think I read somewhere above? Dad only gets 5 days a year with the boys for some reason, even though different states, one would think he'd get them more in the summer too, etc. An educated guess would say there is a reason for that...

I guess if mom left this property and home, the boys at least before mom moved them may have known the property and the dog may have been a family dog even if they hadn't maybe seen the propery or dog in a year but they are pretty young. This one would have been 3 since now it is said he was 4 though.

Anything else? I mean there's ample reason here to wonder if there was any foul play here, or lack of supervision, or simply an accident and more even.

It's been said more than once the boys were adventurous and were boys and I take that to mean, they played, wandered maybe, had freedom.

IF the older boy was supposed to keep track of his younger brother, I disagree that should be the child's job although if it was, he did report to his dad the child went under the fence. Did he lift the fence to let the dog under too or was there just that much room?

I know we will have to wait for more info just trying to think of the possibilities here.

I mean there are some out there possibilities like snake bite, tons of bug bites, reaction, etc., he did step on an explosive but the dog was further along or didn't get as injured or at all, and all sorts of things but I'd say they are more unlikely.

I guess there is also the possibility he died days before BUT the dog WAS with him two miles away...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Just going back to the MSN link. So near a creek his body was and dog near him.

So another possibility is he played in and got wet in the creek and that would increase the change of exposure to the elements/cold.

I also think it is doubtful probably that if it was two miles away that it was on his father's property.

 

[Kimster]

I hope sweet little guy had a good Christmas.

 

[GrandmaBear]

LIVE presser. Right now.

 

[GrandmaBear]

No signs of abuse or assault type injuries. No cause of death yet, pending further testing, etc.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Says the charges against dad for explosives and chemical endangerment of children are entirely separate from what happened to the boy.

 

[GrandmaBear]

However, he says once they have a cause, etc. they will compile all things together and give it to the DA for review. Hmm.

I am rewatching so I can recall and catch anything that seems significant. I also did not come across it until it was partway over.

 

[GrandmaBear]

He can only say signs of trauma ruled out, no signs of abuse as I said. All else will take further testing... Don't know how long he had been dead yet.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Explosives were not fireworks, he says he is no expert but experts said there were enough to level the entire house.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Father told one of the investigators he knew the stuff he had and was handling was dangerous but he was to the point he didn't care anymore...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Hard to hear but apparently he was partially in water. He says water had pooled but it is hard to say what level it would have been since they had experienced rain on Friday. Sat morning when they measured it, it was around four foot deep.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Volunteers found them. One said they saw the dog first and the dog kind of led them back to where the boy was. Dam* it, going to cry.

Confirms meth was found in the home.

 

[GrandmaBear]

it appears dog was with him whole time. Think I pulled the important things now. There are a few others like he is housed in another county but sheriff said that's typical for a high profile case, etc. A few other minor things like that.

I have listened I think three times now.

 

[GrandmaBear]

They did arrange for family being able to tell the father in person at the jail if I caught that right.

So I'm wondering about exposure or drowning of course. He said further testing. Guessing they will do tox of course even though he didn't detail the further testing. I know myself sometimes head wounds don't show but seems unlikely since he was off by himself and that does seem to be true now that he took off along.

BUT he did talk about compiling all info when they had it and giving to DA so not sure what that meant exactly. I wish a reporter would have tried to follow that remark up a bit.

 

[Tresir]

Sounds like he died of exposure. I am glad the dog stayed with him.

If they hadn't called of the search initially, perhaps he could have been found alive. What a tragedy.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Sounds like he died of exposure. I am glad the dog stayed with him.

Yeah the dog staying and the detail about him 1/2 in water got me crying. What a good dog. And led them to him the way it sounds. They just know. Feel bad his help didn't save him. At LEAST though he was found.

Yes, exposure is a good possibility. I'm not sure what on further testing would show that? Depending on what part of his body was in the water, he also could have drowned and the dog simply stayed with him. Exposure is more likely though I think from what was said.