Patrick R. Cress

August 30, 1969 - April 30, 1983

Walk quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into  you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and storms their energy . . .

John Muir

Patrick was reported missing in the early evening of April 30, 1983. The police immediately assumed he was a runaway even though nothing indicated that possibility. The county sheriff did very little to help in our desperate search for him.

His brutalized body was recovered 18 days later. He had been murdered the evening we reported him missing.

After a two week investigation the detective in charge of the case told us that they had come to a dead end and that we would have to wait until his killer (s) came in and confessed.

WE ARE STILL WAITING!

The murder of a child ought to be more important that a two week investigation indicates.