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This person was missing Missing Since 01/29/1979

Missing Since:

Missing Since 01/29/1979

Missing From:

Missing From Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Classification:

Classification Endangered Missing

Gender:

Male

Race:

Race White

Date of Birth:

Date of Birth 08/11/1911 (113)

Age:

Age 67 years old

Height and Weight:

Height and Weight 6’0, 180 pounds

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Distinguishing Characteristics:

Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Gray hair, brown eyes. Boggs wears eyeglasses as well as upper and lower dentures. His blood type is B.

Details of Disappearance:

On January 29, 1979, a retired construction worker named Boggs vanished. He was last seen at his bar, Louis’s Lounge, after a phone call. He left in his green and yellow 1975 Ford LTD (license plate 203A255), leaving behind his gun and the night’s bar receipts.

Two weeks later, his stepson, Clifford Lewin, was found sleeping in Boggs’s car in Florida. The car’s trunk contained a bloody shovel, knife, and clothing; the blood was type B, the same as Boggs’s. Soil on the shovel was from near the Mississippi River. Blood was also found at Boggs’s home.

Lewin claimed Boggs had lent him the car, but Boggs’s son said that wasn’t true. Before Boggs disappeared, Lewin allegedly threatened to kill him and said if Boggs sent him back to a mental hospital (which he had done in 1978), his body would end up in a river. When questioned by police, Lewin said the body wasn’t in their county.

Lewin was charged with murder but acquitted in a 1981 trial. He was later convicted of bombing a Florida police officer and sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Because of the evidence found in Boggs’s car and at his home, and Lewin’s threats, police suspect Boggs was murdered.

Agency:

East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office 225-389-5000

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