Joshua Davis, Age 1, Missing 2/4/2011

JOSHUA DAVIS
DOB: Aug 16, 2009
Missing: Feb 4, 2011
Height: 2'0" (61 cm)
Eyes: Brown
Race: Black
Age Now: 1
Sex: Male
Weight: 30 lbs (14 kg)
Hair: Black
Missing From:
NEW BRAUNFELS
TX
United States
Joshua was last seen at his home on the afternoon of February 4, 2011. He was last seen wearing a blue and red button down long sleeve shirt, a gray long sleeve t-shirt, dark blue Rocawear jeans, a white onesy, a diaper, and black and white socks. He may be in need of medical attention.

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=1165276&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US

Police continue search overnight for missing child
© 2011 The Associated Press
Feb. 6, 2011, 12:47AM

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — More than 100 police, fire and emergency officials, along with volunteers from San Antonio and Austin, have joined forces to search for an 18-month-old missing since Friday.
A New Braunfels police spokesman told The Associated Press on Saturday night that Joshua Davis had not been found.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7415297.html

New Braunfels toddler still missing
By Guillermo X. Garcia
ggarcia@express-news.net
Published: 09:44 a.m., Sunday, February 6, 2011

The search for a New Braunfels toddler missing since Friday night transitioned from search and rescue to recovery, authorities said early Sunday.
After being missing for more than 36 hours, authorities said that weather conditions and the time that Joshua Davis Jr., 18 months old, has been missing forced them to alter their strategy and downgrade hopes the child could be found safe.


Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/New-Braunfels-toddler-still-missing-999561.php#ixzz1DCDWod00

Sunday a.m.: 18-month-old child still missing; search now 'in recovery mode'

Posted: Sunday, February 6, 2011 10:11 am
Updated: 11:41 am, Sun Feb 6, 2011

By Greg Bowen
New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung - New Braunfels, TX

NEW BRAUNFELS — Searchers in southeast New Braunfels were unable to locate 18-month old Joshua Davis overnight — and police say they're transitioning from a search-and-rescue mission to a "recovery mode."

New Braunfels Police Department Lt. Michael Penshorn, during an 8 a.m. Sunday press briefing, said the decision was made to switch to recovery mode because of the length of time the boy has been missing and because of the freezing and near-freezing temperatures that have been experienced since the boy was last seen at his home in the 2600 block of Savannah Hill Circle on Friday evening.

Read more:

http://herald-zeitung.com/news/community_alert/article_37cf3ee6-320b-11e0-90fb-001cc4c002e0.html

Hopes dim for missing tot
Cadaver-search dogs are brought in by authorities.
By Guillermo X. Garcia
ggarcia@express-news.net
Published: 08:38 p.m., Sunday, February 6, 2011

Under clear, sunny skies, cadaver-search K-9 teams fanned out across a narrow area of rough terrain in south New Braunfels near the Guadalupe County line Sunday morning.
The sometimes frantic search-and-rescue operation for 18-month-old Joshua Davis Jr. had just transitioned into a recovery effort.
Meanwhile, a frustrated Sabrina Benitez cried for her child missing since Friday night, pleaded for his safe return and refused to give up hope even as she sought to alert authorities to a person she suspects of wrongdoing.
But while Benitez and her boyfriend believe someone may have taken their child for unknown reasons, authorities said nothing indicates foul play.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Hopes-dim-for-missing-tot-999561.php#ixzz1DErnacZN

by Nadia Ramdass / KENS 5
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Posted on February 6, 2011 at 11:51 PM
Updated today at 11:54 PM



SAN ANTONIO -- On Sunday, a mother and father prepare to go to bed with their toddler missing for a third straight night.
It was an emotional day for the parents of Joshua Davis Jr. First, authorities reported that their missing son might be dead. Then rumors surfaced that claimed the boy was found. However, this news ended up being false.
“I went to sleep and all I could hear was my baby crying and calling for mommy,” Sabrina Benitez said.
Sabrina Benitez has not experienced a good night’s rest in days since the mysterious disappearance of her 18-month-old son Joshua Davis Jr.
Authorities believe the toddler wandered away from his Savannah Hill Circle home Friday night.
“I just want to know he’s okay and that he’s still alive,” Benitez said.
Sunday proved to be an emotional roller coaster ride for the family. After 36-hours that spanned two evenings of sub-freezing temperatures, New Braunfels Police transitioned their search and rescue operation to a recovery effort. They fear the child could not withstand such harsh elements.

http://www.kens5.com/news/False-hope-and-sadness-Missing-18-month-old-toddler-remains-missing-115457694.html

Cadaver dogs will help search for missing New Braunfels boy

by James Muñoz / KENS 5
kens5.com - San Antonio, Tx

Posted on February 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM

Updated today at 12:33 PM CST

SAN ANTONIO -- Family members have been encouraged to abandon hope in finding missing 18-month-old Joshua Davis, Jr. But the child's mother and father are hoping for a miracle.

Read more:

http://www.kens5.com/news/Cadaver-dogs-will-help-search-for-missing-New-Braunfels-boy-115491449.html

Bloodhounds, FBI search for missing New Braunfels toddler

by James Muñoz / KENS 5 and the Associated Press
San Antonio, Tx

Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Updated today at 8:24 PM

SAN ANTONIO -- It was Friday night when a little toddler vanished without a trace from a New Braunfels mobile home.

Now the FBI and the Texas Rangers are helping police as authorities enter day four in the search for missing Josh Davis Jr.

Police are out in full force searching the area with bloodhounds. They expanded their initial on-mile radius around the family home. A DPS chopper was also called in to help.

Read more:

http://www.kens5.com/news/Bloodhounds-FBI-in-on-search-for-missing-New-Braunfels-toddler-115572099.html

Mystery intensifies

By Roy Bragg
San Antonio Express News - San Antonio, Tx

Published: 11:02 p.m., Tuesday, February 8, 2011


NEW BRAUNFELS — The search for missing tot Joshua Davis Jr. intensified and shifted focus Tuesday from a recovery effort to a full-blown investigation.

It began at 2:30 p.m., as a Department of Public Safety helicopter began hovering behind the house, in a mobile home community on the town's far south side.

At the same time, a white truck pulled up in the driveway of the home where the 18-month-old boy disappeared Friday night.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Mystery-intensifies-1003212.php#ixzz1DRSmvuvZ
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Excellent article with numerous pictures! The investigation is ramping up!

Sad story. I don't think this one will have a happy ending.

~Snipped~

At the same time, a white truck pulled up in the driveway of the home where the 18-month-old boy disappeared Friday night.

Plainclothes investigators got out, went to the backyard and returned a few minutes later carrying a large item or items wrapped in black plastic. After loading the bundle into the back of the truck, they drove off.

The helicopter made a few larger circles around the neighborhood before leaving.

“Although we are still searching, we are shifting more toward an investigation,” said Lt. Michael Penshorn of the New Braunfels Police Department. “We'll still search, but we're going to focus more on other areas of interest.”

Those areas included forensic evidence as well as statements from the family and friends, Police Chief Thomas Wibert said.

“It's a process of elimination,” he said. “If you're looking in every place you can look, and you find nothing, then it has to be something else.”

Police spoke to the child's pediatrician Tuesday, Penshorn said, and concluded that the child's survivability window in last weekend's subfreezing weather was only 24 hours. Armed with that information and the failure of numerous searches to find the boy, authorities now deem it less likely that he wandered off and died in the elements.



Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Mystery-intensifies-1003212.php#ixzz1DTTFdtQn

It seems that LE doesn't think little Joshua wandered off.

A photo of missing 18-month-old Joshua Davis, Jr. opening presents during the past Christmas

Joshua Davis and the child's mother, Sabrina Benitez, hand out fliers

Piper, thank you for posting some pictures on this thread. It just makes the thread come "alive" with pics and videos!

Pi-girl, thanks for posting the video!

Missing toddler's dad talks about search, polygraph tests

KENS - San Antonio, Tx
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:10 PM

SAN ANTONIO -- A massive search is undewway for a missing New Braunfels toddler. Authorities say 18-month-old Joshua Davis has been missing since Friday night.

Read more and watch video:

http://www.kens5.com/news/local/Missing-toddlers-dad--115595439.html

DAY 5: Trash cans collected in neighborhood of missing NB toddler

by James Muñoz / KENS 5 - San Antonio, Tx
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM

Updated today at 8:38 PM CST

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas -- Little Joshua Davis, Jr., has been missing now for five days.

If he wandered off as San Antonio police first thought, they say he would not have survived the first night of freezing temperatures.

Read more:

http://www.kens5.com/news/local/Days-later-New-Braunfels-boy-still-missing-as-evidence-remains--115646449.html

Feds examining evidence in missing NB child case
Crime Stoppers offers $5,000 in missing-boy case.

By Roy Bragg
San Antonio Express - San Antonio, Tx

Published: 11:23 p.m. CST, Wednesday, February 9, 2011

NEW BRAUNFELS — Stymied in their search for missing tot Joshua Davis Jr., police are letting state and federal investigators take a second look at the case.

More than two dozen federal agents and a contingent of Texas Rangers are now part of the investigation, said Lt. Michael Penshorn of the New Braunfels Police Department.

An FBI forensics team visited the family's home, in a mobile home community on the town's far South Side, to retrace the steps and evidence-gathering of the first responders, who showed up minutes after the boy vanished Friday night.

Read more:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Feds-examining-evidence-in-missing-NB-child-case-1005744.php#ixzz1DXce7n1O

I don't see anything bad in these parents' eyes. The children in the photos don't seem to have that haunted look either. I tend to believe he either wandered off or someone who knows them came in and took him.

I am leaning towards wandering off. He's just a toddler and he has asthma. If he went out the door, he easily could have disappeared quickly, and possible fallen in a hole somewhere. That could trigger an asthma attack, or he could have hit his head, even. Many places have abandoned wells that are not covered all that good. As sad as that would be, it would be easier than thinking someone intentionally harmed him.

Joshua Davis will be featured on Nancy Grace tonight, 2-10-11 at 8 p.m. EST (7 p.m. CST):

Urgent: 18-month-old tot vanishes from home in middle of the night

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/nancy.grace/
CNN - Nancy Grace Programs

'Stressful roller-coaster ride': Boy's family remains hopeful

by Joe Conger / KENS 5
San Antonio, Tx

Posted on February 10, 2011 at 5:38 PM

The search area for a missing New Braunfels toddler has been expanded to include a two-mile radius around his home.

Police say that’s a lot of ground to cover for 18-month-old Joshua Davis Jr., who quite literally disappeared.

“It’s been a stressful roller-coaster ride, just wondering how it could happen," said the boy's father, Joshua Davis Sr.

The little boy's disappearance has puzzled law enforcement for almost a week and has kept his family on a mission.

Read more:

http://www.kens5.com/news/Stressful-roller-coaster-ride-Boys-family-remains-hopeful-115776964.html