Make-a-List Monday: Older children where a parent is suspected

This list is for kids over the age of ten where one or both of the child’s parents (or step-parents, or guardians) is a suspect or possible suspect in their disappearance, or the circumstances indicate they could be involved. I’m not talking about family abduction cases, I mean cases where they think the parent killed the child. I’m including murder-without-a-body cases.

Child abuse and neglect occurs at all ages, of course, but it’s my understanding that child abuse deaths in older kids are relatively rare. I don’t know much about this sort of thing but my guess would be it’s because older kids are both less fragile and more capable of defending themselves than infants and toddlers.

I’m grouping these kids in alphabetical order by age, and the suspect is in parentheses. In a lot of these cases, other family members — siblings or a parent — are also missing.

1. Sheketah Michele Brown, 10 (father)
2. Shakeima Ann Cabbagestalk, 10 (stepfather)
3. Kristopher Charles Loesch, 10 (mother and mother’s girlfriend)
4. Reagan Cordell Uden, 10 (stepfather)
5. Karen Zhou, 10 (stepfather)
6. Haleigh Breann Culwell, 11 (stepfather)
7. Richard Lee Haynes Jr., 11 (father and stepmother)
8. Adam Joseph Herrman, 11 or 12 (adoptive parents)
9. Barry James Kephart II, 11 (father)
10. Billy Sena, 11 (mother’s live-in boyfriend)
11. Richard Loren Uden, 11 (stepfather)
12. Terry Lee Westerfield, 11 (stepfather)
13. Debra Jean Cole, 12 (mother’s live-in boyfriend)
14. Crystal Gayle Dittmeyer, 12 (stepfather)
15. Ivy Matory, 12 (stepfather)
16. Jaliek L. Rainwalker, 12 (adoptive father)
17. Doreen Jane Vincent, 12 (father)
18. Melinda Karen Creech, 13 (mother)
19. Kelly Jean Harris, 13 (stepfather)
20. Rachel Marie Mellon, 13 (stepfather)
21. Rachanda Lea Pickle, 13 (stepfather)
22. Ricky Lane Thomas Jr., 13 (stepfather)
23. Aundria Michelle Bowman, 14 (adoptive father)
24. Toni Lynn McNatt-Chiappetta, 14 (father)
25. Christina Marchell Richart, 14 (foster mother; her biological uncle’s wife)
26. Monique Christine Daniels, 15 (stepfather)
27. Tammy Sue Rothganger, 15 (stepfather)
28. Jason Sims Jr., 15 (parents)
29. Bethany Anne Sinclair, 15 (mother’s live-in boyfriend)
30. Joyce Irene Cogburn, 15 (male temporary guardian)
31. William Dale Gunn, 15 (stepfather)
32. Josephine Yvette Cogburn, 16 (male temporary guardian)
33. Margarette Ann Cuauhtli, 16 (adoptive father)
34. Mindi Chambers, 17 (father)
35. Alissa Marie Turney, 17 (stepfather; legally adopted her)

Honorable mention: Richard Gorham, 11. His mother’s live-in boyfriend is a suspect in his disappearance. However, Richard was living with his grandfather, Roland Himebrook, when he went missing. Himebrook disappeared too.