Post by hi224 on Aug 19, 2019 3:05:46 GMT
Terry Lee Westerfield, 9, and his younger brother Alan John Westerfield, 7, went to the movie theater in Fayetteville, North Carolina on September 12, 1964. They were never seen again.
The boys' parents were divorced and they lived with their mother, Margie Westerfield Bock. Margie had recently separated from her third husband, Sgt. Carl Bock, at the time for unknown reasons. Sgt. Carl Bock lived on the Fort Bragg military base nearby and was an military police officer there.
On that September morning, Margie, a working mother, left her children with a babysitter named Barbara Temple. At around noon, Carl Bock arrived at the house and attempted to dismiss the babysitter. Barbara, for an unknown reason, did not want to leave the boys with him and wanted to wait for Margie. However, she left a half hour or hour after noon. What happened next is unknown. At some point, Bock became angry at Terry (or perhaps he already was when he arrived at the house). A friend of Terry's came by and asked Bock if Terry could play. Bock replied that Terry was being punished for something and did not allow the boy to talk to Terry.
The next thing we know for a fact is that Carl Bock was sitting in the living room of the house when Margie came home at around 5:30 pm. Bock told Margie that he had dropped the boys off at the Broadway Theater (a movie theater in Fayetteville) to see a double feature (two movies back to back) at 4 pm. The couple argued, then Margie left to spent the evening at the NCO club of a nearby base. When she returned at one o'clock thatt morning, Bock was the only person in the house. The couple argued for about an hour. Bock said he had gone to pick the boys up at 7:45 pm, had waited for two hours, then had returned to the house when the boys hadn't showed up. Margie called the police to report the boys missing at 2 am on September 13.
It became clear very quickly to investigators that something was amiss. The stories didn't line up. Employees at the theater, who knew the Westerfield brothers as they were frequent movie-goers, said they were sure the brothers did not go to the movies on September 12. They also said that Bock didn't talk to any employees there during the two hours that he said he had waited for the boys and that Bock didn't enter the theater. One other employee- or two- reported seeing the boys that day.
Bock was the only suspect every named in the disappearance. He was reportedly somewhat uncooperative during the investigation and did not speak warmly of the boys, even refusing to call them by name and simply referring to them as "them/the boys". At one point he chillingly and emotionlessly told an investigator: "You know, I was the last one to see them alive."
The boys' biological father, Mel Westerfield spent over a decade tirelessly searching for his sons. He committed suicide fourteen years later in 1978. Bock and Margie divorced and Margie remarried. She died in 2003. Investigators from the cold case task force and the FBI interviewed Bock several times in the 2000s. He was reportedly hostile and unwilling to share. He turned down an offer of immunity in exchange for information on the boys or a location for their bodies. He died in 2016.
Sources:
www.starnewsonline.com/news/20190711/two-fayetteville-boys-went-to-movie-in-1964-they-were-never-seen-again
www.forthelost.org/westerfield.html
www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/604844/2.html/mainposter
www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/604844/2.html/mainposter
Edit: The post previously just said "officer" instead of MP officer. He did not have the rank of officer, but an occupation that is described as a type of law enforcement officer which is why I shortened to "officer".
The boys' parents were divorced and they lived with their mother, Margie Westerfield Bock. Margie had recently separated from her third husband, Sgt. Carl Bock, at the time for unknown reasons. Sgt. Carl Bock lived on the Fort Bragg military base nearby and was an military police officer there.
On that September morning, Margie, a working mother, left her children with a babysitter named Barbara Temple. At around noon, Carl Bock arrived at the house and attempted to dismiss the babysitter. Barbara, for an unknown reason, did not want to leave the boys with him and wanted to wait for Margie. However, she left a half hour or hour after noon. What happened next is unknown. At some point, Bock became angry at Terry (or perhaps he already was when he arrived at the house). A friend of Terry's came by and asked Bock if Terry could play. Bock replied that Terry was being punished for something and did not allow the boy to talk to Terry.
The next thing we know for a fact is that Carl Bock was sitting in the living room of the house when Margie came home at around 5:30 pm. Bock told Margie that he had dropped the boys off at the Broadway Theater (a movie theater in Fayetteville) to see a double feature (two movies back to back) at 4 pm. The couple argued, then Margie left to spent the evening at the NCO club of a nearby base. When she returned at one o'clock thatt morning, Bock was the only person in the house. The couple argued for about an hour. Bock said he had gone to pick the boys up at 7:45 pm, had waited for two hours, then had returned to the house when the boys hadn't showed up. Margie called the police to report the boys missing at 2 am on September 13.
It became clear very quickly to investigators that something was amiss. The stories didn't line up. Employees at the theater, who knew the Westerfield brothers as they were frequent movie-goers, said they were sure the brothers did not go to the movies on September 12. They also said that Bock didn't talk to any employees there during the two hours that he said he had waited for the boys and that Bock didn't enter the theater. One other employee- or two- reported seeing the boys that day.
Bock was the only suspect every named in the disappearance. He was reportedly somewhat uncooperative during the investigation and did not speak warmly of the boys, even refusing to call them by name and simply referring to them as "them/the boys". At one point he chillingly and emotionlessly told an investigator: "You know, I was the last one to see them alive."
The boys' biological father, Mel Westerfield spent over a decade tirelessly searching for his sons. He committed suicide fourteen years later in 1978. Bock and Margie divorced and Margie remarried. She died in 2003. Investigators from the cold case task force and the FBI interviewed Bock several times in the 2000s. He was reportedly hostile and unwilling to share. He turned down an offer of immunity in exchange for information on the boys or a location for their bodies. He died in 2016.
Sources:
www.starnewsonline.com/news/20190711/two-fayetteville-boys-went-to-movie-in-1964-they-were-never-seen-again
www.forthelost.org/westerfield.html
www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/604844/2.html/mainposter
www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/604844/2.html/mainposter
Edit: The post previously just said "officer" instead of MP officer. He did not have the rank of officer, but an occupation that is described as a type of law enforcement officer which is why I shortened to "officer".