Missing Or Murdered? The Kidnapping of Douglas Chapman.

Douglas "Dougie" Charles Chapman

He was born on February 5th, 1968.

On June 2nd, 1971, at about 10:30 AM, 3-year-old Douglas was reported missing by his mother. He was last seen playing by a sand pile approximately 25 yards in front of his family's mobile home on Alfred Gore Road in Alfred, Maine. His mother reported that she was in the residence talking on the phone, and his father, Gary, was at work. When she went out to check on her son, he was gone. Douglas's dog did not bark when the child disappeared, something his mother found unusual.

The area around the home is rural, heavily wooded, brushy and swampy. An extensive search, involving hundreds of volunteers. Search planes and helicopters were brought in as well as bloodhounds to comb the woods around his home.

The dogs traced Doug's scent through the woods and up to Gore Road. Where it abruptly stopped. Doug's father, who was an auxiliary police officer in 1971, believed at this point his son was put into a car, taken, and eventually killed. Gary said this community and law-enforcement did everything within their power at that time to find his son. Despite their efforts, Doug has never been found.

Douglas's case was reopened in 1993 at the request of his father. His parents are now divorced and his mother moved to New York after his disappearance. Everyone in Douglas's family has been ruled out as a suspect in his case. His father believes Douglas was abducted and murdered by a sex offender who lived in the area; the person has since died. 

At the time of his disappearance Doug was 3'0" tall, 35 pounds with sandy brown hair and blue eyes. He had a mole on his right shoulder. He was last seen wearing a red and blue plaid shirt, blue or red pants, and loafers.