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Paul Sakuma / AP file
Ann and David Collins, parents of missing 10-year-old Kevin Collins, hold one of their posters during a news conference in March 1984 in San Francisco. .
One of the Bay Area's best known child kidnapping cases burst back into the headlines Tuesday.
According to police sources, law enforcement officials moved in with a search warrant in hand to search a home in San Francisco in connection with the 1984 disappearance of then-10-year-old Kevin Collins. Police said the current person who lives in the home is not a suspect in the case.
San Francisco police were at the home near the corner of Masonic Avenue and Page Street from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday. It is a large three-story light green home.
Sources said police were searching for possible remains of the missing child.
San Francisco police said in a press release issued late Tuesday that the medical examiner responded to the scene and removed several bones that were located under concrete in the home's garage.
"A preliminary assessment of the bones indicates that they are from an animal and not human in origin," the release read. "However, further analysis of the bones is necessary," police said.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office said that San Francisco police requested their search cadaver dogs to help them search the home. Spokesman J.D. Nelson did not know if the dogs found anything.
Collins disappeared the evening of Feb. 10, 1984. He was on his way home from a basketball practice at St. Agnes School in the Haight neighborhood and was last seen talking to a man with blonde hair waiting for a bus at the corner Oak Street and Masonic. Normally his older brother would have been with him, but that day his brother was home sick.
The location where Kevin was last seen and the location of the home that was searched Tuesday are within two blocks of each other.
He was one of the first missing children who received national attention. His image was on the cover of magazines and milk cartons.
Kevin Collins' birthday was last Thursday. He would have been 39 years old on Jan. 24.
Anyone with information on this matter is asked to contact the SFPD Major Crimes Unit at (415) 553-1145. Information can be given anonymously at (415) 575-4444, or via text message to Text a Tip at TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.
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Not sure where they're going here. Who's home are they searching?
If you read the flyer the parents are holding up, it says he was waiting for a bus at the corner of Haight and Masonic and the house they're searching is on the corner of Masonic & Page St.
So it seems that they were doing construction at the house and found the bones and think it may be him.
Wow, it's been awhile but if they are indeed his, at least the family can have some closure.
Sometimes with MSNBC, you havee to do a little CSI work
What?! You mean MSNBC's comprehensive coverage didn't answer ALL of your questions about this!? ;)
So I searched and found an article from another media outlet that does give much more information about why the search was initiated..... I just can't stand not knowing!! :) I do hope they find out what happened to him, what a terrible thing for his parents to wonder for all these years and never know for sure. I can't imagine not knowing what happened to my child for 30 years. I can't imagine that time would heal a wound like that.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=8860582
( Creek dog) Do you run all the posts? Never seen one I have read where you are not the first to "respond"
Kids are much safer today. I hope for a future where no child ever disappears forever.
360 degree CCTV cameras should be on every light pole in every city and town in the nation. High def, no nonsense ones. Not those pansy useless ones that can't even make out the model of a car passing by
Thanks for the link Shelteredinsd. Maybe this site needs to do just a expend just a little bit of effort to get more than just headlines and actually do a little reporting. From the credible link you posted, it sound like they have their "man" in their sites. My hope is that they do find the remains of this little boy in this house, the family has some kind of closure, and this animal is put in with the other inmates until his execution date.
Unfortunately we can never be certain if we're safe or not, we might be a lot safer today, but people are still dying, for example , the inauguration girl that died the same age as me, she seemed to be safe , but she wasn't. Children have started to stop dissappearing but still, people out there are getting murdered. I think we need to set up cameras, better gun laws, and most importantly, being aware of danger, taking care of ourselves, holding hands when we croos the streets and take a buddy instead of walking alone.
I hope they find out for sure what happened to Kevin. It is never too late to find out the truth...