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« on: March 13, 2011, 10:16:48 PM »

This is the case info. The post to follow will outline new developments regarding the biological father.

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Wallace Guidroz
Missing since January 10, 1983 from Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington.
Classification: Non-Family Abduction

Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: March 24, 1980
Age at Time of Disappearance: 2 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 3'0; 35 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Biracial male. (Asian and Black) Black hair; brown eyes.
Clothing: A gray knitted skull cap; a dark blue down jacket with a red collar; a dark blue vest; and purple corduroy overalls.
Dentals: Not Available

Circumstances of Disappearance
Guidroz was playing in Point Defiance Park with his father in Tacoma, Washington on January 10, 1983. He disappeared while he his father was talking to another adult and has never been found despite extensive search.
Kidnapping suspected, many leads received but none checked out.

4:30 p.m. Father and son leave the boathouse and stop at the duck pond near the park entrance before heading home. Wallace sees a girl about his age with a man and a woman, and starts playing with her. Stanley walks over to the man, whom he thinks is the girl's father.
AT 5-5:30 Stanley returned to find everyone gone.

 
Persons of interest:
The man, white, in his late 20s to early 30s, about 6 feet tall, medium build. Shoulder length, sandy brown hair, a mustache and a beard. He wore a baseball cap.
The woman white, in her early to mid-20s, 5 feet 2 and 115 to 120 pounds. Light blonde shoulder length hair and distinctively long eyelashes.
The girl, white about 3 years old, long blond hair.

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”That little boy deserves justice”

January 11th, 2008

On a chilly afternoon 25 years ago, 2 1/2-year-old Wallace Guidroz went off to play with a young girl and her mother near the duck pond at Point Defiance Park.  As the kids played, the little boy’s 25-year-old father, Stanley Guidroz, went for a walk at dusk and shared a beer with a man he took to be the dad of the little girl.

When they returned, Wallace was gone.  The girl and the woman were nowhere to be seen.  Soon so was the second man.

The curly-haired Fife youngster hasn’t been seen since that day, Jan. 10, 1983.

Despite exhaustive searches, Tacoma police found no traces of the boy, the girl or the woman.  Composite sketches of the man and the woman were drawn and distributed but no one matching their descriptions was ever found.

Police detective Gene Miller wants to change that.

“That little boy deserves justice,” said Miller, a homicide detective who took on the “cold” case about a month ago.  “This case is screaming for an answer.”

Wallace’s disappearance has vexed the Police Department for years.  His name frequently appears in lists detailing the unsolved cases of Pierce County’s young missing children, including Teekah Latrese Lewis and Lenoria E. Jones.

The Police Department hasn’t had contact with Wallace’s parents in years.  Stanley Guidroz moved out of state and was last known to be living in Louisiana.  He couldn’t be found by The News Tribune.  The boy’s mother died in 1995 at age 37, according to Social Security death records.

Miller has studied the investigation into the boy’s disappearance and reviewed hundreds of pages of reports.  The suspicious circumstances led Miller to think the boy might have been the victim of a homicide.

With the anniversary of Wallace’s disappearance, Miller is hoping someone will come forward to break the 25-year-old mystery.

“This is a case where our only hope is that by reminding the community it may jog somebody’s memory or get someone who is up to this point been unwilling to come forward,” Miller said recently.

GONE FISHING, GONE MISSING

Stanley Guidroz told police what happened that Monday.

He and his son went fishing with a husband and a wife who were family friends from about 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.  They put their lines into Commencement Bay near the old Point Defiance Boathouse.

After about two hours, Wallace, dressed in a knitted skull cap, a dark blue down jacket, purple corduroy overalls and brown cowboy boots, got cold and wanted to leave.

“When they leave that area, it was prior to darkness,” Miller said.

After saying goodbye to their fishing partners, father and son decided to walk around the duck pond.  As they neared the pond about 4:30 p.m., Wallace spotted a little girl he didn’t know who was about his age.

Wallace wanted to play with the girl, so his dad left him with her and a woman he thought was her mother.  Meanwhile, Stanley Guidroz started to walk around the pond with a man he believed was the girl’s father.

The other man shared a beer with the elder Guidroz and the two talked about life as they strolled nearby.

“I could see the kids playing,” Guidroz told The News Tribune at the time.  “I guess I felt secure.  When I turned around to look for the child, he was gone.”

Twenty-five to 40 minutes later, Guidroz and the man returned to where Wallace had been playing.

His son, the girl and the woman were gone.  The two men split up to search for Wallace.  The other man went in a different direction from Guidroz and vanished.

Stanley Guidroz searched for about two hours and then, at 7:42 p.m., called police from a nearby pay phone at the Goldfish Tavern and reported his son missing.  Within 20 minutes, police and volunteers were searching for the little boy.

“He’s afraid of the dark,” Guidroz told the newspaper within hours of his son’s disappearance.  “I’m just praying they’ll find him.”

BY LAND, WATER AND AIR

Over the next couple of days, nearly 200 searchers scoured the park.  They drained the duck pond.  Divers looked in Commencement Bay. Helicopters “ including one from the Oregon National Guard” searched from above.  Bloodhounds traversed the ground.  Searchers rode horseback and walked the 702-acre park.

“It was an all-out search,” Miller said. “Everything that could be done to locate this kid was done.”

Yet nothing was found.

The elder Guidroz helped detectives draw sketches of the man and the woman.  They were sought as witnesses in the case.

Missing-persons fliers with photos of Wallace were distributed.  Then-Police Chief Patrick Johnson made a public plea for the boy to be returned safely.

Still, there were no signs of Wallace or the man and the woman.

“We have not been able to identify either of these people conclusively,” Miller said.

In the early days of the investigation, one woman called to say she and her children were at the park that Monday afternoon and that a man and a woman twice tried to grab the caller’s children, The News Tribune reported at the time.

Her description of the man matched Guidroz’s description of the man he’d been walking with before Wallace disappeared.

During the investigation police fielded several calls from people wishing to remain anonymous.

Some of their information couldn’t be checked because it came from anonymous tipsters and investigators couldn’t get back to them to get more detailed information.

“Some of it had potential value but we couldn’t talk to that person further,” Miller said.  “We were not able to pursue that information.”

TWO OTHER CASES

Investigators actively worked Wallace’s disappearance for about two years before the leads died off.

The case got renewed attention in 1986 when Michella E. Welch, 12, was found slain in the North End’s Puget Park on March 26 and Jennifer Bastian, 13, was found slain in Point Defiance Park in Aug. 28 after she’d been missing for nearly a month.

Both cases remain unsolved.

Over the years, detectives have reviewed the Wallace case.  Some have done additional work and made notes in the file.

“They were unable to develop additional information,” Miller said.

As far as Miller knows, Wallace’s remains have never been found.  The department has fingerprints for the boy but not dental records.

“As far as we know, nobody has been recovered that could be identified as him,” Miller said.

He would like to find Wallace’s father for an interview and to get a DNA sample to put into a database so that if remains were found, they might be identified.

He’d also like to hear from the anonymous tipsters who called in the days after Wallace’s disappearance and from anyone else who knows or saw something “no matter how minor” but didn’t report it at the time.

“I want to get some energy moving” behind the case, Miller said.  “I have to believe that somebody out there has information that hasn’t been shared up to this point.”
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2011, 10:22:14 PM »

Houma man drives dead wife 100 miles
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By Eric Heisig
Staff Writer

Published: Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:23 a.m.

HOUMA — A 53-year-old is accused of killing his wife in Houma and driving aimlessly with her corpse for about six hours before walking into a Baton Rouge-area police station Wednesday afternoon to tell officers what he had done, authorities said.


Stanley Guidroz, 2621 Madge St., stabbed 47-year-old Pepettra Guidroz multiple times about 5 a.m. Wednesday as the two sat in her car behind Burger King, 1033 W. Tunnel Blvd., police said. He said he did so as the two, married since 2003, argued about their rocky relationship, police said.

Details about the alleged weapon and whether it has been recovered have not been released.

After Pepettra was dead, Stanley drove the 1999 Ford Mustang aimlessly for a while, arriving about noon in Zachary, a city 15 miles north of Baton Rouge and about 100 miles from Houma, police said. The trip typically takes about 2 1/2 hours.

In Zachary, he went to police headquarters and confessed to officers there that he had killed his wife and her body was on the Mustang's back seat, authorities said.

He “said he wanted to speak to an officer and blurted out that he just killed his wife,” Zachary Police Capt. David McDavid said.

Investigating officers found the car parked behind the station and Pepettra's body inside, McDavid said.

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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2011, 10:26:33 PM »

http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20110311/ARTICLES/110319877&tc=ix?p=2&tc=pg



Suspect linked to son's cold case
The Houma man's son has been missing since 1983.

By John DeSantis
Senior Staff Writer

Published: Friday, March 11, 2011 at 10:56 a.m.
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HOUMA — The man who allegedly stabbed his wife to death and then drove her body more than 100 miles to Zachary is a link to a high-profile “cold case” — the disappearance of his toddler son in a Tacoma, Wash. Park nearly three decades ago, authorities said.

The woman he was married to then, Chom Guidroz, was the mother of the boy. Social Security records show she died in 1997. Tacoma Police believe she died in Illinois but are not certain, and further information about her could not be obtained Thursday night.

Tacoma investigators are talking today with local law-enforcement officials, trying to learn more about Guidroz and his recent whereabouts.

On the close-knit Mechanicville block where Guidroz — a Lockport native — had lived with his wife, neighbors coped with the news that one of the couple is now dead and the other bound for prison if convicted. Autopsy results confirm that she died of stab wounds to the head and neck.

Inside the small rented house on Madge Street that was home to the Guidrozes, Pepettra's daughter spoke matter-of-factly about their tempestuous relationship.

“My mother knew he did his drugs but she accepted that and told him just make sure he paid the house bills first,” said the daughter, Fallon Bentley, as she stood in the bedroom the couple once shared. Its bed and dressers are black lacquer. On top of the taller dresser is a Valentine's Day card from Stanley Guidroz to his wife, more than a yard tall with roses printed on it.  ::snipping2::
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2011, 11:00:40 PM »

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/03/13/1582903/cold-case-back-in-news.html
Cold case back in news

Tacoma police want to talk to a 53-year-old former resident arrested in Louisiana about the disappearance of his young son 28 years ago at Point Defiance Park.
March 13, 2011

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Guidroz remains a “person of interest” in the disappearance of his son, Wallace, detective Gene Miller said.

“He has never been completely eliminated,” said Miller, who handles cold cases for Tacoma police . “There are enough inconsistencies in what’s known from the early investigations that I want to have another conversation with him.” Tacoma police haven’t talked to Guidroz since 1984, when he moved away. The boy’s mother died in 1995.

In a 2008 News Tribune story on the 25th anniversary of Wallace Guidroz’s disappearance, Miller said he wanted to interview Guidroz and get a DNA sample to put in a database so that if the youngster’s remains were found, they could be identified.

Miller said at the time that his review of the case and the suspicious circumstances surrounding the boy’s disappearance led him to think he might have been killed.

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According to police reports, Guidroz and his son went fishing Jan. 10, 1983, near the old Point Defiance Boathouse and then headed to the duck pond. There, Guidroz told authorities, he met a little girl and a woman and man he assumed were her parents.

Wallace wanted to play with the little girl, Guidroz said, so he left the boy with the woman and little girl and went for a walk around the pond and shared a beer supplied by the other man.

When he looked back to where his son had been, he told police, he didn’t see his son, the woman or the little girl, but assumed they were secure.

About 25 to 40 minutes later, the two men returned to where his son had been playing, and all three people were gone, Guidroz said. The two men split up to look for them, and the other man also vanished.

Two and half hours later, Guidroz called police to report his son missing. Within 20 minutes officers were searching for the boy. The duck pond was emptied, and divers checked Commencement Bay. Bloodhounds were called in but found nothing.







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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2011, 12:02:52 AM »

No remains found in Tacoma cold case
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Stanley Guidroz, a former Fort Lewis soldier who returned to his native Louisiana in 1986, is being held on investigation of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife in March. Nearly three decades after Guidroz's 2-1/2-year-old son disappeared, Tacoma detectives on Tuesday searched unsuccessfully for the child's remains along Ruston Way, based on information Guidroz gave them during a jailhouse interview.

By Sara Jean Green

Seattle Times staff reporter


Tacoma police detectives spent Tuesday digging in an open area along the city's waterfront for the remains of Wallace Guidroz, a toddler who disappeared 28 years ago.

They were tipped to the location by Wallace's father, Stanley Guidroz, a former Fife resident who is now in a Louisiana jail accused of fatally stabbing his wife in March, said Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum.

"He's always been somebody we haven't been able to eliminate from being involved," Fulghum said of Guidroz, now 54, who reported his 2 ½-year-old son missing Jan. 10, 1983. "He was the last one to see the kid alive and be with the child."
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No remains found in Tacoma cold case
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Stanley Guidroz, a former Fort Lewis soldier who returned to his native Louisiana in 1986, is being held on investigation of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife in March. Nearly three decades after Guidroz's 2-1/2-year-old son disappeared, Tacoma detectives on Tuesday searched unsuccessfully for the child's remains along Ruston Way, based on information Guidroz gave them during a jailhouse interview.

By Sara Jean Green

Seattle Times staff reporter


Tacoma police detectives spent Tuesday digging in an open area along the city's waterfront for the remains of Wallace Guidroz, a toddler who disappeared 28 years ago.

They were tipped to the location by Wallace's father, Stanley Guidroz, a former Fife resident who is now in a Louisiana jail accused of fatally stabbing his wife in March, said Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum.

"He's always been somebody we haven't been able to eliminate from being involved," Fulghum said of Guidroz, now 54, who reported his 2 ½-year-old son missing Jan. 10, 1983. "He was the last one to see the kid alive and be with the child."
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