Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 09/01/2002
- Missing From:
- Missing From Alton, Missouri
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 07/07/1998 (26)
- Age:
- Age 4 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 3’0, 50 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Light brown hair, brown eyes. Thomas may go by the nickname Mikey. He has a pea-sized dark spot on his right eye.
- Details of Disappearance:
- In 2002, Angela Mack and her son Thomas vanished from Salem, Arkansas. They were driving a dark gray or blue truck. Angela later left Thomas with a Missouri couple, Clarence and Barbara Krusen, supposedly for adoption (though there are claims she sold him).
Angela went to California, then planned to get Thomas back. Someone picked her up at a Missouri bus station and took her to the Krusens’. Then, both Angela and Thomas disappeared.
No one reported them missing until 2004. Police only learned about the Krusens’ involvement in 2020, long after Clarence had been murdered in Texas.
Barbara Krusen told police that Angela had signed adoption papers but then changed her mind. After the Krusens picked Angela up from the bus station, both she and Thomas were gone the next day. Barbara claimed Clarence said someone took them, but she heard nothing. She failed a lie detector test and later confessed that Clarence killed Angela and Thomas, burning their bodies in a furnace. They moved the furnace later.
Investigators believe Barbara’s confession, but Angela and Thomas’ bodies have never been found. Angela left behind another son from a different relationship.
- Agency:
- Salem Police Department 870-895-2601
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This person was missing Missing Since 09/01/2002