COLORADO SPRINGS — More than a quarter century after 7-month-old Christopher Abeyta went missing from his Colorado Springs home, family, friends and supporters braved below-freezing temperatures Sunday to ask the district attorney’s office to convene a grand jury investigation about the disappearance.
With his 28th birthday approaching on Thanksgiving day, Christopher Abeyta’s family felt the time was right to pressure District Attorney Dan May into moving forward with their son’s case.
Bernice and Gil Abeyta, Christopher Abeyta’s parents, and his sister Denise Alves, led the half-mile walk from the Police Operations Center in South Nevada Avenue to the District Attorney’s Office in Vermijo Avenue, followed by people holding signs reading, “Justice for Christopher!” and “what if this was your child?”
According to police records, on July 15, 1986, between 12:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. that day, without anyone in the home hearing or seeing anything suspicious.
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