Daniel Barter
Vital Statistics
Circumstances of Disappearance
The case remained open for years, but no leads ever emerged. In 2008, investigators began a new push to solve the case with the prevailing theory being that Barter was abducted.
Investigators
NCMEC #: NCMC600229
NCIC Number: M-204488841
Source Information: The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Left: Barter in 1959; Right: Age-progressed image of Barter at age 46 (circa 2000).
Missing since June 18, 1959 from Perdido Bay, Baldwin County, Alabama.
Classification: Endangered Missing
Barter was last seen playing near the banks of Perdido Bay, AL.
At the bayside campsite were the boy's parents, three brothers, an uncle, and two cousins.
It was just about 9:45 a.m. and the family was preparing equipment for a fishing trip when they realized Danny was gone. About 15 minutes had passed since his brothers had last seen him near the campsite's small beach. He had spent the night in his uncle's car with the other children and he was barefoot, still wearing the gray boxer shorts he slept in.
The search for Danny started at the beach, a few miles north of the U.S. 98 bridge into Florida. Danny didn't like the water, and there were no footprints leading into the bay.
The search included several hundred volunteers and emergency personnel, the U.S. Navy, a trio of prize-winning bloodhounds, helicopters, skin divers, mounted posses and even hunters who stalked alligators and sliced open their bellies searching for signs of the boy. The bloodhounds repeatedly tracked the boy's scent to the same spot on a nearby road.
If you have any information on Barter's whereabouts, please contact:
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office
Missing Persons Unit
205-937-0200
All information may be submitted on an anonymous basis.
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