Christopher Abeyta Part 1

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🗓️ 24 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

7-month-old Christopher Abeyta disappeared from his crib on July 15, 1986. His family lived in a quiet neighborhood of Colorado Springs, Colorado and were in the habit of leaving their doors unlocked. No one heard anyone come in and take Christopher that night but by morning, he was gone. Panic immediately set in when no one could find the baby. They ran downstairs to find the front door left open. The investigation focused on the family for a long time but in recent years, a person of interest has been identified. Even though detectives focused so much on the family, that didn't stop the Abeyta's from searching on their own. One of Christopher's sisters, Denise, joined me for this episode.

In this first part of the story, we will go over the first 23 years of the search for Christopher. In Part 2, we will discuss the more recent developments.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Christopher Abeyta, please call 1-800-THE-LOST or Colorado Springs Police Department at 719-444-7000.

You can follow Christopher's case at findchristopher.com or https://www.facebook.com/findchristopher/.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the vanished ad free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:12.9	Christopher Abeda was taken from his crib sometime during the early morning hours as his mother, father, brothers and sisters
0:19.4	slept nearby.
0:20.4	Bernice Abeda says she fed her son around midnight last night and when she got up to check on him early this morning, he was gone.
0:27.5	Help is finding so that I can tomorrow morning, like we usually did at 4.30am,
0:34.0	to cut a lot of bad ad-dursing. I beg you please, please. Christopher loves me and I don't know very much.
0:46.5	I need him very much. Please help us.
0:51.5	Well, at this point, it's kind of like walking up to a blank wall that has absolutely nothing on it.
0:56.5	We're not making much progress at all, just as a matter of fact, we're not making any progress at this point.
1:00.5	See, you've ever seen any case like that?
1:02.5	This is about the blankest case I've ever come across without leads in my 18 years of law enforcement.
1:12.5	She told me one time it's like she says that you know, you have children and you go to the department store
1:18.5	and for that brief second your child goes underneath a rack or isn't there by your side and you do that moment of panic
1:25.5	where you're like, oh, where's the go? She doesn't matter living like that for years and years and years.
1:30.5	You're in a state of panic.
1:35.5	Seven month old, Christopher Abeda, disappeared from his crib in the early morning hours of July 15, 1986.
1:43.5	His family had put Christopher to bed in his crib that night, just feet from his parents bed in their Colorado Springs home.
1:50.5	The Abeda family lived in a quiet, safe neighborhood so they had felt comfortable leaving their doors unlocked.
1:56.5	When they woke up that morning and Christopher was gone, panic immediately set in.
2:01.5	They ran downstairs to find the front door wide open, but no trace of Christopher. 11,548 days.
2:10.5	That's how long the Abeda family has been searching for Christopher.
2:14.5	They've followed tips all over the country and into Mexico, but they've never gotten any solid leads that have led them to finding him.
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