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« on: March 11, 2011, 09:23:24 AM »

http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-search-adopted-children-missing-years/story?id=13105233
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Police Seek Adopted Boys Missing for Years, Parents Allegedly Accepted Payments
Police Will Digitally Age the Boys to See What They Would Look Like Now
March 10, 2011

Investigators in Colorado and Texas are trying to find out what happened to two adopted boys who haven't been seen in years and are trying to determine why their adoptive parents allegedly continued to take money to care for them.
Sheriff's officials in El Paso County near Colorado Springs say that in January they received a report about the disappearance of Austin Bryant. Investigators discovered the boy was last seen sometime between 2003 and 2005.

  They also found out that a second boy, Edward Bryant, hadn't been seen since 2001.   It's not clear if the boys are related or who originally called police to report Austin missing.
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The El Paso County Sheriff's Department says no missing persons report was ever filed for the boys.

  Austin and Edward's adoptive parents, Edward and Linda Bryant, lived in Colorado from 1999 to 2005 before moving to Texas. The couple was arrested in Texas and both have now been extradited back to Colorado where they are being held on $1 million bail each.

  The Bryants each face multiple counts of felony theft, conspiracy, attempting to influence a public official, forgery, and charges that the couple continued to collect money from the El Paso County Department of Human Services despite the fact that Austin and Edward were not living with them.
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« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2011, 09:26:19 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/10/allegations-abuse-decade-old-missing-childrens-case/
Allegations of Abuse in Decade-Old Missing Children's Case
March 10, 2011

Authorities in El Paso, Colo., have opened an investigation into the decade-old disappearance of two foster children, one of whom appears to have been physically abused while in the care of his parents.
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Edward Dylan Bryant, who would today be 18-years-old, disappeared in 2001, and Austin Bryant, who would be 15, went missing as early as 2003.

Authorities say since then, their parents never reported them missing and have falsified records to collect $175,000 from the government to raise the two boys.

The boy’s adopted father, Edward Bryant, 58, and mother, Linda, 54, who are separated, were arrested in Texas and currently in jail in Colorado Springs. They have been held on $1 million bail.

Each face theft and forgery charges.
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« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2011, 09:29:45 AM »

http://www.wfaa.com/home/related/Adoptive-parents-claim-missing-boys-ran-away-years-ago-117770683.html
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Authorities believe Edward Dylan vanished in 2001 when he was nine. Austin Eugene vanished in 2003 when he was seven. They would now be 18 and 15.

Edward and Linda Bryant, who were the children's adoptive parents, moved to North Texas in 2005 with six children. The Bryants lived in the Monument area near Colorado Springs
between 1999 and 2005. Family friends told News 8 that the two missing boys did not make the move to Texas with them.

The family had moved from Colorado Springs, Colorado to the Lake Kiowa community near Gainesville before the couple split.
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The investigation started Jan. 22 when someone reported a suspicious incident involving the alleged disappearance of Austin, Sevene said. Investigators checked it out and discovered that the boy was last seen sometime between 2003 and 2005. In follow-up interviews, including with his family, investigators determined Edward was also unaccounted for, Sevene said.

Linda Bryant, 54, was arrested at a lake-front house near Gainesville; Edward Bryant, 58, was arrested at a Denton house. They are both being held on $1 million bail each on charges, including theft and forgery.

The six children are now in foster care.

Authorities in Colorado Springs said the Bryants have told them the boys ran away from home years ago. However, authorities said they gave conflicting dates and never reported them missing.

The Bryants have not been charged, and are currently under investigation for taking money to raise the two boys who vanished years ago.
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« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2011, 11:29:01 AM »

Glad to see this one posted as I saw this on the news here in CO yesterday.  Thx!
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« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2011, 11:36:40 AM »

Linda Bryant's Inmate Detail:
http://shr2.elpasoco.com/inmates/SOSrchSelect.aspx?ID=1100004307


Edward Bryant's Inmate Detail:
http://shr2.elpasoco.com/inmates/SOSrchSelect.aspx?ID=1100004309
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« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2011, 12:01:27 PM »

According to the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder, there was an Edward E R and Linda Kay Bryant that owned the following properties:

4315 SANDSTONE RD MONUMENT CO 80132-8228 - bought in 11/1987, sold in 3/2006.

18060 GRANITE CIR MONUMENT CO 80132-8208 - bought in 9/1999, sold in 12/2006.

These properties are both located in the LEWIS-PALMER SCHOOL NO 38 School District. From the school district's website: http://lewispalmer.schoolfusion.us/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=96345&sessionid=189be6d70cd847ca44099543c7ef6ff9

 ::snipping::Prairie Winds Elementary School opened for the 2001-2002 school year at 790 King's Deer Point East in 2001.  ........

In 1996, the Lewis-Palmer Charter Academy opened in District 38.  It originally served preschool through 5th grade, and evolved to include grades 6 through 9.  ::snipping2::

IF they weren't homeschooled, I wonder if these are one of the schools they would have gone to.  I wonder if any of their old classmates remember them....or old neighbors remember them...
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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2011, 12:55:11 PM »

So - it looks like they were special-needs children which I didn't catch anywhere before.  And they were likely homeschooled (if at all). 
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http://www.9news.com/news/article/186564/188/Records-Couple-got-thousands-for-missing-boys

 Records: Texas couple collected thousands for missing boys

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COLORADO SPRINGS - Newly released court documents suggest that for years, the adoptive parents of a pair of children with special needs continued to collect thousands of dollars from the El Paso County Department of Human Services without ever having to prove that either of their kids was in school or even alive.

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Investigators believe the last "verifiable time that Edward Bryant was alive was 2001." They also say the last time they can prove Austin Bryant was alive was in 2003 when his mother took him out of a Monument school to start home schooling the boy.

The investigation into their disappearance only began in January when a friend of Austin contacted investigators.

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« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2011, 04:20:53 PM »

It just keeps getting worse.   


Witness: Couple used Taser on one of two missing boys


http://www.gazette.com/articles/one-114304-used-boys.html#ixzz1GKPRQcNw

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Austin Eugene Bryant was no older than 10 when he told a friend that his adoptive parents Edward and Linda Bryant shocked him with the device, an El Paso County sheriff’s detective said in court documents.

At the time, Austin's torso was covered in welts, the boy’s friend told police in January. He also frequently had black eyes and cuts on his face.

In addition to the electrical shocks, Austin’s friend — now 20 — said the boy was rolled up in blankets and left immobile on the floor and that he was possibly also confined in a trunk in the couple’s garage.
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Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/one-114304-used-boys.html#ixzz1GKPWOnNG
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« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2011, 04:22:34 PM »

Arrest Affadavit:  http://richmedia.onset.freedom.com/colgazette/lhva2v-031111williamotto01.pdf
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« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2011, 04:38:14 PM »

In reading the Arrest Affadavit, I think Linda Bryant pretty much lays out where you can find these poor boys:  "in the heavily forrested area surrounding their home."  So sad....  Those poor boys!!!
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« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2011, 04:41:53 PM »



Day of searching turns up no sign of missing boys


Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/bryant-114439-search-missing.html#ixzz1GbnAuV6W

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Deputies on Saturday continued their search for two adopted boys who went missing in El Paso County in the early 2000s.

The search focused on the Monument-area property from which Austin Eugene Bryant and Edward Dylan Bryant disappeared sometime between 2001 and 2005, said El Paso County sheriff’s spokeswoman Lt. Lari Sevene.

Sheriff Terry Maketa said hopes of finding the boys alive are dimming.

Their adoptive parents, Linda and Edward Bryant, moved to Texas in 2005, without ever having reported them missing. The couple is custody in the El Paso County jail on a $1 million bond, accused of collecting more than $170,000 worth of public benefits to raise the missing boys.

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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2011, 06:34:11 AM »

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=1167616&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US

Age-progression pictures of missing Bryant boys released
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http://www.gazette.com/articles/sheriff-116478-missing-paso.html

I rarely understand the purpose of 'age progression'. MOST cases do not turn out like the Jaycee Dugard case. JMO....these boys are long dead.
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