Background
Collins was born in San Francisco to David and Ann Collins, a working-class family with nine children.
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He was a fourth-grader at Saint Agnes School in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. His family lived on Sutter Street in the city"s Western Addition. On February 10, 1984, he left early from basketball practice in the school"s gymnasium between 6:10 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Kevin was last seen at approximately 7:55 p.m. at the corner of Oak Street and Masonic Avenue, waiting for the Number.
43 business Witnesses reported seeing him at the bus stop talking to a tall blond-haired manitoba He was never seen or heard from again.
Search
Prior to Amber Alerts, national television shows (such as America"s Most Wanted) and local news and print advertisements were the only way to inform the general public of a child"s disappearance. Following the evening of Kevin"s disappearance, posters with his picture were distributed and displayed on telephone poles and storefront windows around San Francisco.
In the days that passed, billboards, milk cartons, and national magazine covers showing Kevin"s picture circulated nationwide as the country searched for the boy.
This, along with the development of a 1983 television movie about the kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh, helped spark nationwide interest in the plight of missing children. Aftermath
On November 14, 2005, a purported identity thief pleaded guilty to stealing Kevin"s name when applying for a passport in his name. Thinking that the case was too old for anybody to remember, he applied using the name "Kevin Andrew Collins" and provided falsified documentation to obtain a passport.
A state department employee who was processing the paperwork remembered the Kevin Collins abduction and alerted authorities.
On January 29, 2013, police served a search warrant on a house in the 1100 block of Masonic Avenue. The concrete floor was removed after cadaver dogs indicated the possible presence of remains.
lieutenant was reported, however, that preliminary reports indicated the remains to be from an animal, not a human.
