Post by WOLVERETT on Aug 30, 2015 13:49:22 GMT -5
A 14-year-old boy frustrated with a ruckus at his school limped toward a barn 15 years ago and vanished into the night.
To this day, no one knows what happened to Blake Pursley. But his mother holds out hope that she will eventually know what happened to her son.
"A part of me is gone," said Zylpha Pursley. "It's not like I'm sad in my life, it's just an emptiness that doesn't go away."
Detectives believe that Blake, who was unhappy at the Cedu School, wandered away with a plan to find his way home to Flagler, Colo. A tracker followed his distinctive footprints to a paved road near the school for special needs children, where they appear to have veered right.
A left turn would have led to town. A right turn would have taken Blake toward a rugged cliff behind the 75-acre campus where the twinkling lights of Highland could be seen 20 miles away.
"He never showed up again, there was no trail," said sheriff's Sgt. Rick Whitehead, who as a detective back then first responded to the call. "We came up with absolutely nothing. To this day, it haunts me."
Blake had several disabilities and professionals said the boy simply couldn't have survived without medical attention.
After a near-drowing tragedy when he was 3, Blake suffered a tracheotomy and had several surgeries that left scars on his head, neck, abdomen and chest. His left leg was four inches shorter than the right and he operated at the level of a 9-year-old. www.sbsun.com/general-news/20090625/15-years-later-boy-who-vanished-from-running-springs-school-still-missing
doenetwork.org/cases/857dmca.html
To this day, no one knows what happened to Blake Pursley. But his mother holds out hope that she will eventually know what happened to her son.
"A part of me is gone," said Zylpha Pursley. "It's not like I'm sad in my life, it's just an emptiness that doesn't go away."
Detectives believe that Blake, who was unhappy at the Cedu School, wandered away with a plan to find his way home to Flagler, Colo. A tracker followed his distinctive footprints to a paved road near the school for special needs children, where they appear to have veered right.
A left turn would have led to town. A right turn would have taken Blake toward a rugged cliff behind the 75-acre campus where the twinkling lights of Highland could be seen 20 miles away.
"He never showed up again, there was no trail," said sheriff's Sgt. Rick Whitehead, who as a detective back then first responded to the call. "We came up with absolutely nothing. To this day, it haunts me."
Blake had several disabilities and professionals said the boy simply couldn't have survived without medical attention.
After a near-drowing tragedy when he was 3, Blake suffered a tracheotomy and had several surgeries that left scars on his head, neck, abdomen and chest. His left leg was four inches shorter than the right and he operated at the level of a 9-year-old. www.sbsun.com/general-news/20090625/15-years-later-boy-who-vanished-from-running-springs-school-still-missing
doenetwork.org/cases/857dmca.html