Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 09/01/1974
- Missing From:
- Missing From Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race Native American
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 08/13/1942 (82)
- Age:
- Age 32 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’2, 120 – 135 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue ski coat, a yellow blouse, brown and yellow slacks, and a white gold mother’s ring with four stones.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Native American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Honson may have three or four capped teeth. She has a dark spot on her right ankle, and she wears eyeglasses with heavy dark-colored plastic frames. Honson may use the following alias names: Barbara Jean Compo, Christine Marie Compo and/or Christine Marie Harrington.
- Details of Disappearance:
- Honson disappeared from her home in Petoskey, Michigan in September 1974. She had a troubled marriage due to alcohol problems and fights with her husband. While she sometimes left home for short periods, she always returned. This time, she didn’t. Her husband found her suitcases and assumed she’d left, later leaving her suitcases with relatives in Grand Rapids before reporting her missing.
Honson’s family in Grand Rapids hadn’t seen her since the summer, but she’d called to say she was visiting in the fall—a visit that never happened. There’s been no activity on her accounts since the summer of 1974. Although she struggled with alcohol, her family believed she wouldn’t abandon her children.
In 1986, a man named Nicholas Brasic Jr. was convicted of her murder. A witness, Paul Howell (whose brother had dated Honson), testified that he, Brasic, and Honson were together in Brasic’s van. Howell heard Brasic beat Honson severely in the back of the van. Brasic then drove Howell home, and later admitted to getting rid of her body. Other witnesses confirmed Brasic’s confession of killing a woman and burying her near South Bend, Indiana. Brasic received a life sentence, but Honson’s body has never been found.
- Agency:
- Kent County Sheriff’s Department 616-632-6100
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This person was missing Missing Since 09/01/1974