January 11,2007
KANSAS CITY, Mo . — A mother continues to push for new leads to find her missing son.
Branson Perry, 20, disappeared in April 2001 from his Skidmore home. He said he was going to put away jumper cables and hasn’t been seen since.
Perry’s face is now posted on two Missouri billboards.
“There’s always the hope — until there’s evidence found that says otherwise — there’s always hope somebody knows where he is,” mother Becky Klino told KMBC’s Chris Nagus. “I don’t know what happened. I don’t know.”
Two years after Perry vanished, there appeared to be a break in the case when the FBI arrested Jack Wayne Rogers, of Fulton. Investigators found messages on Rogers’ computer claiming he had driven to Skidmore and abducted a blond-haired boy.
The lead didn’t pan out; Klino said she believes Rogers was lying and that someone else was involved in her son’s disappearance.
“It’s a small town, but I do believe there are people, maybe not in Skidmore, but in that area that do know the answers,” Klino said.
She said she hopes the billboards can provide some answers.
“If you hear anybody talking — Branson isn’t a common name,” Klino said.
Anyone with information in the case can call the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office at 816-582-7451 or the Crime Stoppers TIPS hot line at 816-474-TIPS.
