More than a month after 7-year-old Patrick Alford disappeared from a Brooklyn foster home, police are running out of leads to follow. Originally they suspected the birth mom, but she’s been cleared since passing a lie detector test. The foster parents were a dead end too, as were canvases of the area and thousands of interviews. Even a $12,000 has failed to turn up the lost boy, leaving investigators and relatives to fear the worst. "The boy's not here - he's not here!" yelled Alford’s aunt, who’s been visited by detectives nine times. "I wish he was."
The Daily New reports that “cops have interviewed some 14,000 people and searched 214 buildings, knocking on 9,100 doors near the East New York foster home and Rodriguez's Staten Island home.” Among those questioned are seven registered sex offenders in the area where Alford disappeared and 28 bus drivers, employees at seven car services and 21 of the boy’s relatives. Police also looked at 81 surveillance videos, without positively IDing the boy.
"The detectives checked all the junkyards. They went through every street and looked at all the video, and found no clues" an NYPD source told the Post, adding that "This could be another Etan Patz." In that tragic case a young boy is thought to have been abducted and murdered as he walked to catch the school bus in Manhattan.
