William Pilkenton | Tofino BC | Feb 2008

[solvy]

Des, thanks for the update.  It's somewhat comforting to know he is still being sought.  I just can't get his sweet face out of my mind for long.  Hope things get worked out soon.

[Adrian]

 

What on earth, made the father, leave his, son, in those dangerous conditions. Why? Why did he go back to the B&B ALONE??? WHY did he live his young son there in the first place. Criminal negligence, right there.

OR did his son get swept away, and he got scared, and went to B&B? Then on returning saying his son was missing?

Those parents should have been searching, yelling, in a desperate panic, getting anyone they could to help FAST!!!! This just sucks! Sorry, but I think the family should be investigated, as they didn't go frantically looking, immediately for their son.Especially in those hurrendous, dangerous conditions.

[Desespere]

I think they did go looking and then called the police after 30 minutes.
There were hundreds of people searching, the First Nations members too, out in their boats, for three days.
Victim Services stayed with the parents in the B&B. Often times parents do not search once the professionals get called i.
I think the parents must be back in Bellingham now.

[capeheart]

Ever since I heard the story of William missing, I smelled a rat. This does not seem logical to leave a child on the beach his age knowing he has a medical condition, ADD, that is the last thing you would do if you cared about him. I do believe there is something wrong with his story. He has to be negligent to an extreme extent to do something like this. I live on the coast and know how trecherous waves can be at a moments notice. I don't know what education the father has, but whatever it is his common sense sure is lacking. It doesn't add up to me at all, from the getgo. I feel something happened here. Why was it just him and the boy, why didn't the family go for a walk on the beach. Usually on vacation everyone goes for the walk or the run or breakfast or whatever. I guess one will never know. 

[Desespere]

Another parent who doesn't want the responsibility of a child who requires a little extra?

[Chris]

Ever since I heard the story of William missing, I smelled a rat

Me too.

[victorian]

I remember this case as it's on Vancouver Island where I live. Nothing ever came of this?

[manycats]

Hey you guys,

 We have had a couple of young boys disappear off Washington beaches under the same sort of circumstances. I have wondered about it for awhile as it appears it is someones MO of snatching boys. That and another one or two that have disappeared off trails as they were hiking with their parents. Same thing, took their eyes off them for a moment and gone.

I am actually surprised the police, without a body would decide he went into the water. I am very curious if the police are aware of the Washington cases....

[Sleuth]

Welcome aboard manycats!
Thanks manycats for the information, do you have the dates and names etc. for these young lads?

[manycats]

Ok heres the 2 beach cases

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/27dmwa.html

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1168dmwa.html
(note- in this case as in Pilkenton it was on or nearby reservation land)

 Then we have also more then one case of boys being taken right out of their homes in areas near the ocean in Washington. (there may be another also)

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/157dmwa.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1499dmwa.html

and then this one off the trail ( I may have mixed in my mind the trail missing with the abducted from home cases as I sort of relate the beach cases with the home abduction ones because of location)
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4036dmwa.html

[manycats]

Thanks! I just happened across Pilkenton's case and almost fell over! Sorry lol I posted before I looked for the info.

I have been wondering about these beach cases for a long time. And then with the others, just seems like they could fit together. Plus the time span is long, but we have had other "serial" cases in Washington that have gone on from 1980's to now.

[manycats]

FYI- Adams case (the trail) is not near the ocean.

Also, lets all keep in mind the news reports of the "dense forest" where Pilkenton disappeared. I saw no reports of dogs being used to search for him, does anyone know if that happened?

[Chris]

Hi manycats (I have 3 plus 4 strays hanging around)

That is interesting. I am not an ocean person, but I do know a body, if it fell in the ocean, comes back to shore right?

All in the same arae? seems weird.

[BCID]

Yes and no Chris. I'm no scholar but from what I learned, some bodies have been dragged out with the currents to the deep ocean where they sink to the bottom after a time. I tend to watch many shipwreck programs and for a time I researched some of our local wreck sites in any published material I could find.

Our Ocean around Vancouver Island and the gulf islands are different than other areas. I watched at least a couple of programs where they mentioned many wooden wrecks were eaten in very little time at all. bodies of those in the wrecks were also consumed including the bone.

I wish I could name what programs where they mentioned that info.

Mind you, sometimes it takes ages to find a body if it returns back to shore. We had some human remains discovered a number of years ago on a beach on one of the gulf islands. I believe they found out it was a person from a shipwreck at least 100 years previous.