Alexis Patterson’s stepfather dead

Seven-year-old Alexis S. Patterson disappeared from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 3, 2002. Her stepfather, LaRon Bourgeois, was the last person known to have seen her. Because of that and because he had a criminal history, the police looked pretty hard at him in her case. Nothing came of it, though, and I’m not sure if he’s still a suspect.

Well, LaRon has died and so has his wife, Michelle Bourgeois, whom he married sometime after he split with Alexis’s mother in 2005. Their bodies were found together and it looks like overdose. Some suspected drugs and drug paraphernalia were found at the scene, and Michelle had a history of heroin use.

It’s very unfortunate and sad, and I feel sorry for their loved ones.

MP of the week: Sheila Pauley

This week’s featured missing persons case is Sheila Annette Pauley, a twenty-year-old woman who disappeared from Ehrenburg, Arizona on September 1, 1980. She was last seen leaving a bar and restaurant, followed shortly afterwards by members of a local motorcycle gang, which sounds ominous. She has never been heard from again

Pauley left behind an infant son. If still alive (which seems unlikely) she’d be 60 years old today. I don’t have any more information on her disappearance.