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Bleyl,Brian R.missing February 28,1981; Arizona
Topic Started: Aug 8 2006, 10:57 PM (1,739 Views)
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Brian R. Bleyl
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Left: Bleyl, circa 1981;
Right: Age-progression at age 37 (circa 2005)


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: February 28, 1981 from Phoenix, Arizona
Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Date Of Birth: December 2, 1968
Age: 12 years old
Height and Weight: 4'11, 100 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown eyes, brown hair.
Medical Conditions: Bleyl is diabetic and requires insulin to regulate his condition.


Details of Disappearance

Bleyl was last seen collecting money while working his newspaper route in Phoenix, Arizona on February 28, 1981. A man was charged with his abduction and presumed murder in 1990. The suspect allegedly confessed to three witnesses about his role in Bleyl's case. The subject was acquitted later the same year. Bleyl has never been located and his disappearance remains unsolved.


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Phoenix Police Department
602-261-8042 (Daytime Number)
OR
602-261-6141 (Nighttime Number)



Source Information
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The Arizona Republic
Operation Lookout



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated December 20, 2005; age-progression updated.

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The Arizona Daily Star

August 21, 1993
Missing body holds up '87 Phoenix murder case

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After six years, Mary Douglas patiently waits to bury her daughter.

Funeral plans remain on hold, though, until the corpse of her 22-year-old daughter, who Chandler police believe was murdered, is found.

"You can't hold a funeral or a murder trial without her body," said Douglas, 47, of Kenai, Alaska.

"Those are the facts, but I will never stop trying to find my daughter and the person who stole her from me."

If the body of Donna Mae Jokumsen is found, an arrest likely would follow, police said.

The Chandler mother of two young boys was last seen July 5, 1987, the day before she was to separate from her husband, Kevin Jokumsen, then 21.

"We have a lot of circumstantial evidence, and one, and only one, suspect," said Dave Nueman, a Chandler police sergeant who worked on the case for four years.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office declined to prosecute without a corpse, he said. If her ! body were found after a suspect was tried and acquitted, a second trial would be illegal.

"This has been a very frustrating case for all the investigators. We consider it a murder without a corpse, not a missing person," said Lt. John Summers, a Chandler police spokesman.

Trying a case without a body is rare, but not unprecedented.

In 1990, a Phoenix man was acquitted on a charge of first-degree murder in the disappearance of Brian Bleyl, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier who vanished in 1981.

Jurors said they based their verdict on a lack of evidence, including no body.


In another murder trial with no corpse, jurors in 1992 decided that a 49-year-old woman was slain by a philandering husband.

Gaylynn Earl "Rusty" Morris, 51, a wealthy accountant from Cave Creek, was found guilty of murdering his wife, Ruby, in their home on June 3, 1989, taking her body to San Diego and burying her at sea.

Douglas said she agrees! with prosecutors, saying it is too risky to have a trial with! out firs t finding the body.

"I'm willing to wait," she said.

On July 5, 1987, Donna Mae Jokumsen decided to take her two sons, then ages 1 and 3, back to her parent's house in Enumclaw, Wash.

She told her parents that she would begin the car trip on July 6. Five days later, Douglas called Chandler police to report her daughter missing.

Kevin Jokumsen never reported his wife of three years missing, police said.

After failing a lie detector test about his wife's disappearance, Kevin Jokumsen eventually returned to Enumclaw, where he still lives with his mother and two sons.
"I see the boys once a year, and they think their mother just ran away," Douglas said.

"We don't tell them anything else, but some day, I hope they learn the real truth."

Copyright 1993, 1999 The Arizona Daily Star
Record Number: TUCS176045
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END OF AN ORDEAL
ACQUITTED IN A SENSATIONAL MURDER CASE, STEPHEN WILSON FACED ANOTHER TRIAL: AIDS
By Paul Rubin
Published on January 05, 1994
Someone raised the subject of "Steve's ordeal" about midway through Stephen Wilson's funeral service last week.
"It's hard to imagine what Steve and his family went through after his arrest," a close friend of Wilson's told those gathered at the Grimshaw Bethany Chapel. "But he stuck it out and stayed sober. He was an example of faith, hope and courage."
Several in attendance wept a little harder upon hearing that. Everyone present knew the friend was referring to Wilson's 1989 arrest and trial for allegedly murdering and molesting Phoenix paper boy Brian Bleyl in 1981.

The disappearance of 12-year-old Bleyl has been one of Arizona's most enduring tragedies. In 1981, paper boys just didn't disappear from middle-class, north-central Phoenix neighborhoods in broad daylight, never to be seen or heard from again.

Though Wilson became the chief suspect, compelling proof against the Phoenix native had been hard to come by. The boy's body never was recovered, and there was no persuasive evidence to link Wilson to a crime.

The case languished.
In 1989, however, Phoenix police announced the arrest of Steve Wilson and a "solution" to the lingering mystery. News stories portrayed Wilson as an HIV-infected pervert. Police reports detailed Wilson's alleged 1982 murder "confession" to two acquaintances and, in a separate conversation, to a Phoenix doctor.

In arguing for Wilson's guilt, county prosecutors cited the twin towers of murder prosecution--motive and opportunity.

Motive? Brian Bleyl and other youths had hurled homophobic insults at Wilson, which caused him to strike out against Brian. (An out-of-the-closet gay man, Wilson didn't mask his effeminate leanings.)

Opportunity? The Bleyls found Brian's bike a few yards behind Wilson's apartment, and a neighbor said she'd seen the boy at Wilson's front door around the time he vanished.

But a trial jury didn't buy it. It acquitted Wilson of all charges.
After the trial ended, deputy county attorney Cleve Lynch sent feelers to Wilson through intermediaries: Just tell us where you put the body, so the Bleyl family can finally have some peace, Lynch wanted to tell Wilson.

But Wilson and his family saw no reason for further discussion.
"He's not going to say he did it because he didn't do it," his mother, Stella, said at the time.

Wilson's dad, L.B., says his oldest son gave no confession before dying at the Wilsons' home December 23 of AIDS-related causes.

Steve Wilson had been very ill for some time, L.B. Wilson says, but he had felt up to attending the Nutcracker performance with family members the night of December 22.

Early the next morning, he died. Wilson was 44.
After his 1989 acquittal, family members say, Wilson had continued to make jewelry and tried to keep his frail health intact. A nearly fatal heart attack a few years ago sapped much of his remaining strength, and he spent his last days at his parents' Phoenix home.

But Wilson's family and many friends didn't want to dwell on sad matters at his well-attended funeral service. Wilson's younger brother, Rick--a major with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office--recalled "Steve's generosity, his friendship. . . ." Friends spoke openly of his long battle to maintain sobriety.

Those who spoke also referred to Wilson's wacky sense of humor, which, they said, he displayed to the end of his days.

"Steve was about having fun," one friend said, gesturing to the open casket a few feet away. "He'd say, 'Life is too goddamned short. I've got so many things I want to do.'"
The friend added that he and Steve Wilson often spoke of death and dying, and Wilson didn't seem frightened about his premature fate.

"I asked him if he'd be keeping an eye on me after he died," the friend said. "He said, 'I'm going to haunt you.' We had a good laugh about that one.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-01-05/...d-of-an-ordeal/
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