Barrie Police To Resume Search For Brandon Crisp One More Time
Posted October 30, 2008 12:00 pm.
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An official hunt for a missing 15-year-old boy isn’t over yet. Barrie Police have confirmed they plan to resume the search for Brandon Crisp for at least one more day on Friday, as the three week anniversary of his disappearance approaches.
The teen left home on October 13th after an argument with his parents over spending too much time playing a video game on his Xbox. When he didn’t return after a number of hours, his parents became worried. When those hours stretched into days, they were frantic.
And each passing 24 hours of silence only increases the fear that something may have befallen their son.
Cops had been searching for the boy with the help of volunteers for several weeks, but finally gave up when they found no evidence of him in the area. His bike was discovered on that first day and police located a witness who claims he told her the two wheeler malfunctioned and he was forced to abandon it.
It was the last known sighting of Crisp.
Cops decided to resume their hunt “out of abundance of caution to ensure that areas around the last sighting of Brandon are searched thoroughly,” a police statement explains. It comes despite the fact snow has since blanketed the area around Shanty Bay.
The canvass will continue on Saturday from 8am-2pm, with cops speaking to pedestrians and conducting a traffic check of vehicles in the area for any clues to Brandon’s whereabouts.
His distraught parents are convinced Brandon is still alive, and may have been abducted by someone as he walked along the remote area. “We know our son, he’s got a good heart,” his father, Steve Crisp, assures. “If he could’ve got the message to us he would have got the message to us … this is what really scares us the most.”
“We know he’s still out there,” adds tearful mother Angelika Crisp. “That’s the only thing we can consider right now.”
A $50,000 reward is being offered for any information that leads to his safe return. Part of that money is being put up by Xbox maker Microsoft, which is also analyzing the contacts Brandon made online to see if he might have chatted with anyone or be staying with a game competitor he met over the web.
The case has attracted international attention, primarily because of the bizarre aspect of Crisp’s supposed ‘video game addiction.’
And it will receive even more publicity when his story appears briefly on the U.S. TV show “America’s Most Wanted.” That program already has a webpage dedicated to this baffling case. See it here.
