Branson Kayne Perry,20,-Skidmore Missouri- 04/11/01

Photo 1 of Branson
Photo 2 of Branson



Missing Since: April 11, 2001 from Skidmore, Missouri
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: February 24, 1981
Age: 20
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 155 lbs.
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Race: White
Gender: Male
Distinguishing Characteristics: Small faint scar on upper
right cheek. Small scar on left knee. Normal teeth; wisdom teeth
had been pulled. Right handed. Black belt in Hopkido, lifted weights.

Medical Conditions: Racing heart condition. Allergic to Penicillin.

Clothing: Shorts (size 32) and a T-shirt (size medium to large).

Case Number: 010201

Branson was last seen by his friend on April 11, 2001 at approximately 3:00 p.m. They were cleaning house for his father before he came home from the hospital. He told his friend he was putting jumper cables in the shed & would be right back. He has not been seen since. He left behind his van and personal belongings.

In 2003, Jack Wayne Rogers was arrested by police. A U.S. Justice Dept. affidavit includes Rogers' e-mails to a man in Alabama, in which acts of child torture and mutilation are depicted. In the e-mails, Rogers implicates himself in the abduction, rape and murder of Branson Kayne Perry. A police search of Rogers' property turned up a necklace belonging to Branson. Rogers has denied killing Perry and has not been charged.

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Nodaway County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Ben Espey
(660)582-7451

Sgt. David Merrill------Mo. Hwy Patrol- 816-387-2345

Link to Branson Perry's Family Website

http://www.bransonperry.com.

Crime Scene KC

http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_sc...s/branson1.jpg

Monday, November 06, 2006
Did missing Skidmore man fall victim?

Interesting missing-persons case out of Skidmore, Missouri: Did 20-year-old Branson Kayne Perry just take off in 2001, or did he fall victim to the cannibalistic child-porn criminal who once bragged about torturing and killing "a blonde-haired boy from Skidmore"?
Reader Linda Stovall, who has taken an interest in missing-persons cases, sent me a link to Branson's page. His mother e-mailed Linda: " I want to scream…..I want to cry……I want to know why and how something like this can be happening."

"Person of interest" in the case is Jack Wayne Rogers, now serving 360 months for child-porn, in part based on investigators' statements that they found "numerous photographs of Rogers posing with severed male genitals, wearing them on his head, placing them in his mouth and apparently chewing them", along with pictures of little boys in bondage and in sex acts

Crime Scene KC

From Branson's mother:

I just want people to know, that although Jack Rogers was considered a 'person of interest', that the police are still actively following leads they are recieving from the Skidmore area. They still believe it is possible that Branson's disappearance is directly connected to someone in that area. Someone there knows what happened....someone there has the answers.

I pray to God everyday that they will come forward. They can remain annonymous if they choose, but there is also a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Branson's disappearance.

[Leanne Weich]

How absolutely awful for this poor family. Such a sweet looking young man. If Rogers is responsible for Branson being missing, I hope some jail justice gets him to talk. I'll add this family to my prayer list. I hope the good Lord has a lot of time to listen to my prayers for the missing - there are so many of them and, unfortunately, it seems like additional ones get added every day just about.

for Branson, wherever you are. I hope you are at peace.

[janna55]

What is it with this town, Skidmore, MO? It's a tiny little town, about 350 people, yet horrible things keep happening there. In addition to this missing young man there have been these two things that put this town in the news.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/de...kill-d21.shtml

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou...celroy/22.html



I feel safe because I live in a small town, but this particular small town is pretty darned scary, imo.

[Leanne Weich]

Wow, you're not kidding. Scarey to think so much can happen to so few.

[Leanne Weich]

Originally posted by onederwomyn



What on Earth? This man only got 360 months for the horrible things they saw pictures of? If it had someone's severed genitals...obviously there was a murder. 360 months? He will be out in like 5 years on good behavior. It makes me ill.

Holy cow, shows how well I read or absorbed the article that that didn't jump out at me. I know if I lived in those parts and this lunatic was about to be released and intended on returning to my neck of the woods, I'd pack and leave immediately.

[Leanne Weich]

I am Linda in the article.

Hi Linda. Thanks for letting us know this. How is Branson's mom doing now? Please tell her that us posters will pray for her and Branson - you know what we're like.

She is doing somewhat better.. She is getting great guideness from one of the great .orgs. She feels now that a cloud has been lifted that has been lingering for so long..

I am working to try to get him back into the media, without the strong attention being on Rogers.. There is no concrete evidence that he has harmed Branson and no DNA evidence to prove that the necklace they found on Rogers property was Branson's..., and i feel that the attention needs to be strickley on Bransons disappearance and finding him.
She still has hope.

We are working on getting a few billboards made to put around and near the town of Skidmore where he disappeared on 2001..

Thank you for the many thoughts and prayers and i will pass it along to his mother..
God Bless..

Linda

[Luckys_Wife]

I pray the answers will come soon to this family. What a horrible nightmare.

[Leanne Weich]

Thanks for the update Linda. If there is any way I can help with writing letters or something with regard to the billboards, please let me know.

Originally posted by onederwomyn



What on Earth? This man only got 360 months for the horrible things they saw pictures of? If it had someone's severed genitals...obviously there was a murder. 360 months? He will be out in like 5 years on good behavior. It makes me ill.

Just wanted to point out that 360 months would be 30 years, right? Still probably not long enough, but much better that 5 for sure. I hope he'll have to spend more than 5 years on a 30 year sentence.

Branson's mother has asked me me to add Sgt. David Merrill from the Missouri State Highway Patrol (1-816-387-2345) to the LE contacts in his case He is the one that she is in contact with for Branson's missing investigation.

Thanks....

Linda

I would like to plan a vigil for Branson.. And we are going to include in the vigil, Wendy Gilenwater & Bobbi Jo Stinnett.
They are both related to Branson..
Any ideas on how to go about it in a very memoriable way in their honor, feel free to email me directly: missouri_grammy@yahoo.com


Im very open to suggestions, as i have never done this sort of thing before..

Thanks.. Linda

Bransons disappearance has now focused away from Jack Wayne Rogers and now is focusing back to the Skidmore area... Someone in Skidmore knows something about his disappearance...

From Bransons mom:

A girl came up to me about a year after Branson`s disappearance who said `I wanted to go to the police` but she was afraid. I was thinking you know you have no idea what fear is. Maybe if she sees or if people see we`re still looking for him maybe they won`t be afraid to say something."


"He was a great person he`d do anything for anyone at the drop of a dime."

Now Rebecca ( Bransons mother) hopes someone will do the same for her family. She says someone in Skidmore knows something.

[Leanne Weich]

Originally posted by missouri_grammy
Bransons disappearance has now focused away from Jack Wayne Rogers and now is focusing back to the Skidmore area... Someone in Skidmore knows something about his disappearance...

From Bransons mom:

A girl came up to me about a year after Branson`s disappearance who said `I wanted to go to the police` but she was afraid. I was thinking you know you have no idea what fear is. Maybe if she sees or if people see we`re still looking for him maybe they won`t be afraid to say something."


"He was a great person he`d do anything for anyone at the drop of a dime."

Now Rebecca ( Bransons mother) hopes someone will do the same for her family. She says someone in Skidmore knows something.

Linda

Is there not perhaps an investigative journalist in Skidmore who would be sympathetic toward Branson's mom and her plight and try to get this story out into the spotlight.

Posted with permission from Branson's mother ,Becky..

My name is Becky. I am the mother of Branson Perry. Branson disappeared April 11, 2001 from Skidmore, Missouri. According to police reports, he was last seen at approximately 3 PM that Wednesday afternoon. Branson is considered an endangered missing person by the law enforcement. I want to tell you about the circumstances of his disappearance and the events of the investigation up to now.

The circumstances were reported by the last person to have supposedly seen Branson. Branson’s father, Bob (who passed away in March 2004) and I were divorced in November 2000 and I was living in a small town about 20 miles from Skidmore. Bob had been in the hospital and was due to come home that Friday. Branson wanted the house to be clean when his father came home, so a friend was helping him that Wednesday. The alternator had also gone out of Bob’s car prior to this day and there were two men replacing it where it was parked on the street in front of the storage shed that sat on an adjacent lot to the house. It is still unclear to me as to who asked them to fix it, whether it was Bob or Branson.

The events of the day are fairly sketchy to me and often make no sense. I don’t have a time line of when they occurred, only sporadic comments that were made. At one point, the friend saw Branson run into the kitchen and take something out of one of the cabinets, then run out the back door. When he returned, she said he wouldn’t tell her what he was doing and acted like nothing happened. Later, she said she had taken a shower and when she came out of the bathroom she saw one of the men that were working on the car going through the cabinets in the kitchen. She said she asked him what he was looking for and he told her nothing and went back outside. Then at approximately 3 PM she had been upstairs when she heard the front porch door shut. She looked out the window and saw Branson. She asked him where he was going and he told her he was going to put the jumper cables in the storage shed and would be right back. She never saw him again. The men that had been working on the car claim to have never seen him. No one saw him.

The friend just thought Branson had gotten sidetracked, so she left after she finished what she was doing. Bob did not come home that Friday, so his mother had come to check on Branson Friday since she hadn’t heard from him for a couple days. When she got to the house, all the doors had been left open and the radio was on. She went to check again Saturday, and still nothing. She began to get concerned and started making phone calls to his friends. No one had heard from him. She called Bob on Sunday and he called me that evening. Bob got out of the hospital Monday morning and I met them at the police station to file a missing person’s report.

When the police came to investigate, Bob could not find anything of Branson’s that was missing. Even his wallet was left behind. When they checked the shed for the jumper cables, they were not there. Two weeks after the investigation started, they mysteriously showed up in the shed, just inside the door. Several people were given lie detector tests. Some passed it and some didn’t. I was not given details, which I understand. Many leads came in at first. The police searched the river, farms, ponds, even wells. Nothing came up. When the leads became far and few, Bob’s family contacted a local psychic. Once again the police followed up on new leads. Still nothing was found. The police had no new leads so to speak so the investigation pretty much came to a stand still. Then in April of 2003 Jack Wayne Rogers from Fulton, Missouri was arrested. During an arrest of a man in Alabama for porn charges, a chat log was found on his computer that led the police to Rogers. In the log, Rogers claimed to have kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered a blonde haired man from Skidmore. I have read these logs. They are the most gruesome things I have ever seen. At this time Sgt. Merrill from the Missouri Highway Department became the lead investigator of Branson’s case. The numerous searches still did not reveal any concrete evidence that they could charge Rogers for murder with. He consistently denies having ever had contact with my son and claims the logs were only fantasy. He was however, charged with several counts of porn and performing a gender reassignment on an individual in a motel room. He is currently serving 30 years with no chance of parole for these crimes. It was three years of the most extreme emotions I have ever felt. I attended every trial that I knew of that he had. I sat in the same courtroom with him and stood on the court steps as he walked by me.

Rogers was the prime suspect for several years. The police are not completely ruling out Rogers, but now the investigation has turned towards Skidmore again. They have received new leads there. I suppose time has a way of unraveling secrets. I believe someone in that area knows what happened to Branson. In my heart, I don’t believe Rogers is responsible. Despite the nightmare I lived through then, I am thankful that someone with that much evil will never walk the streets again. If it wasn’t for that chat log they found on the other computer the police may never have come across that animal.

I have never been a person to ask for much. I am asking, pleading, even begging for your help in finding my son or finding out what happened to him. I need for this nightmare to end. It is a roller coaster that doesn’t ever stop. From the outside I may appear to be fine. Inside, I will never be ok. If you have ever lost someone who has died, then you know that feeling of complete despair. Over time it eases and becomes bearable.
You know the cause of what happened and you have been able to put your loved one to rest. You will always have that sense of emptiness and at times it overcomes you, but you are able to put it into perspective again. Parents of missing children never have that feeling ease. It never becomes bearable, only easier to hide. One minute you are ok and functioning, the next minute something triggers inside and you plummet to the deepest ravine you could ever imagine and can’t find any way out. It can be something as simple as a smell, a taste, a sound, a touch and all the horror is there again. It never ends.

#######continued on next post below!!!!!!!!

******CONTINUED FROM ABOVE POST***

Please, please, please find it in your hearts to come forward if you have ANY information. You may think it is insignificant, but it may be the key link to answers. You can remain anonymous if you want. I continue to pray to God that Branson is safe….is happy…and will come home soon. But I fear the worst has happened. I fear I will never see my son’s beautiful smile again, or hear his voice. . I am also trying to get billboard signs to put up along the highways coming into Skidmore.
I had an individual that wrote in one of Branson’s guest books that had never heard of this case and went to college in Maryville, MO and said he had friends that now live in Skidmore. I don’t want anyone to forget my son. It has been so long since he disappeared that I have to get the information out again.
I believe if there is a constant reminder there again, that perhaps someone will come forward.

Skidmore is such a small town. I lived there for 17 years and knew most every one there. I had a greenhouse business there for several years. There are so many good people that live there. Yet so much unrelated tragedy has happened to our family in that town. In October of 2000 Wendy Gillenwater, was beaten to death by her boyfriend. April 2001, Branson disappeared. December 2004, Bobbi Jo Stinnett was found dead and her baby cut from her womb. They are all children that had great personalities and would do anything for anyone if it was in their power to do. They are all children who are missed every second of every day. So much sadness and pain, yet I have to continue to believe that ‘everything happens for a reason’. Only God has those answers as I will never be able to understand.


Contacts for Information:

Sgt. David Merrill
MO Highway Patrol
P.O. Box 8580
St. Joseph, MO 64508
(816) 387-2345

Nodaway Co. Sheriff
Ben Espey (Sheriff)
404 N. Vine Street
Maryville, MO 64468
(660)582-7451

911 or your local Law Enforcement Agency


DONATIONS:

Branson Perry Fund
Bank Midwest
4201 North Belt Highway
St. Joseph, MO 64506

News Broadcast video on you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EHpUpmsjvk


Branson is also 1 of 8 from Missouri that are featured on the Squeaky Wheel Tour Website....

http://www.411gina.org/missouri.htm



After several emails from me to Telco Productions,they will be doing a brief segment on Branson Perry for episode M-418 of “Missing,” scheduled for the broadcast week of 11/27/06 (will air the weekend of December 2/3 in most areas.


http://www.usamissing.com/

[Leanne Weich]

Originally posted by missouri_grammy
News Broadcast video on you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EHpUpmsjvk


Branson is also 1 of 8 from Missouri that are featured on the Squeaky Wheel Tour Website....

http://www.411gina.org/missouri.htm



After several emails from me to Telco Productions,they will be doing a brief segment on Branson Perry for episode M-418 of “Missing,” scheduled for the broadcast week of 11/27/06 (will air the weekend of December 2/3 in most areas.


http://www.usamissing.com/

Thanks for the links and the update. Good on you for pushing Telco Productions to get involved. I pray you get some leads from it.

Here is a age Progression photo just made of Branson Perry.
It is a age progression to his current age of 25 years old.

AGE PROGRESSION PHOTO OF BRANSON PERRY - AGE 25

Branson now has a OFFICIAL website ..

http://www.bransonperry.com

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/16151083.htm

Mother renews push to solve mystery of son’s loss
Although a suspect surfaced after Branson Perry vanished, the 2001 case hasn’t been solved.


http://www.kansascity.com/images/kan...06_ULPFUAA.jpg


About a year after Branson Perry disappeared from near his home in Skidmore, Mo., a nervous girl with whom he once attended school approached his mother.

“She said she was afraid to go to police with the information she had,” Becky Klino recalled recently.

It has been five years since Perry, who was then 20, vanished as he took a break from cleaning his house to take jumper cables to friends. But that skittish exchange with Branson’s classmate still reverberates for Klino.

“Somebody out there knows something,” she said. “Somebody has answers.”

Klino, who now works in Kansas City, has mounted a new campaign to raise awareness of her son’s disappearance and is again pleading for anyone with information to call authorities.

Time has not passed quietly for her. In the spring of 2003, investigators brought her news of a possible suspect with a gruesome story.

Accused child pornographer Jack Wayne Rogers, a Fulton, Mo., businessman, had said in an Internet chat with an Alabama medical student that he had kidnapped, mutilated and killed Perry in an 18-hour episode he described as an “Ozark overnight.”

Rogers later denied any role in Perry’s disappearance, and his attorney suggested that the chat log was simply “fantasy.”

Meanwhile, the child pornography case against Rogers grew spectacularly. Authorities presented evidence that he had engaged in cannibalism and had performed voluntary “nullifications,” a black-market medical procedure in which a male’s sexual organs are removed.

Still, only the Internet chat linked Rogers to Perry’s disappearance.

Rogers, now 61, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on the child porn charges and currently is in a South Carolina federal prison.

Nodaway County Sheriff Ben Espey said that authorities had not ruled out Rogers as a suspect but were concentrating on leads closer to Skidmore.

“We’re not 100 percent sure it’s Jack Rogers, and we’re not 100 percent sure it isn’t someone around here who’s involved with drugs,” Espey said. “It still comes back to: Why did Jack Wayne Rogers say that in the chat log?”

In the past few months, Espey and investigators from the Missouri Highway Patrol have chased leads indicating that Perry’s body was dumped in a heavily timbered area of Nodaway County or stuffed into a barrel and heaved into a river.

Klino said she also thinks the answers still may be in northwest Missouri. While painful, the story in Rogers’ chat log did not contain any clearly identifiable information about her son, other than his name, she said.

To report any information about Branson Perry’s disappearance, even anonymously, call Espey at the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Department at 1-(660) 582-7451 or Sgt. David Merrill at the Missouri Highway Patrol at (816) 387-2345.

FYI... www.bransonperry.com website is no longer in existince...
I am sure there are other websites that you can refer to , to get info from in regards to his case

Its a long story, but my prayers still are that Branson will be found.. I wish the family well.

[KellyJolkowski]

Here's a link with alot of good information:

http://www.truckingboards.com/trucki...4-11-01-a.html

[Justins Mom]

I have to bump this story to remind those out there...

Its also eerie to me how many stories are coming out of rural Missouri these days....

As tommorrow, April 11,2007 approaches , it marks 6 years since Branson disappeared in 2001, the reward has increased from $5000.00 to $10,000.00...

Please keep Branson and his family in your thoughts and prayers, today, tommorrow and always.


Branson Perry's website is now back up..

http://www.bransonperry.com

Linda

~family advocate

Mom Of Missing Man Pleads For Info In Case

Branson Perry Disappeared From Skidmore 6 Years Ago


SKIDMORE, Mo. -- A Missouri mother is making a plea for information about her son who has been missing for six years.

The last person to see Branson Perry alive said the 20-year-old left his house at about 3 p.m. to put jumper cables in a shed behind his house. Then, the Skidmore man disappeared without a trace.

"I really think that somebody has the answers, somebody knows what happened to Branson," said Rebecca Klino, Perry's mother.

Klino said she has felt stranded since her son disappeared six years ago Wednesday.

Two years after Perry vanished, there appeared to be a break in the case. The FBI arrested Jack Wayne Rogers, of Fulton, on child pornography charges and found messages on his computers. Investigators said the notes discussed methods of torturing and mutilating children and claimed that Rogers had driven to Skidmore, abducted a blond boy and raped and murdered him. Rogers told authorities that they would never find the body.

Klino told KMBC's Jim Flink that authorities have received new leads since then that make her believe Rogers was lying.

"It's really hard for me to think that somebody does know what happened, but they won't say," Klino said.


There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprit in Perry's disappearance. Anyone with information in the case can call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.

Originally posted by janna55
What is it with this town, Skidmore, MO? It's a tiny little town, about 350 people, yet horrible things keep happening there. In addition to this missing young man there have been these two things that put this town in the news.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/de...kill-d21.shtml

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou...celroy/22.html



I feel safe because I live in a small town, but this particular small town is pretty darned scary, imo.

FYI...In reference to the articles,,,Branson Perry and Bobbi Jo Stinnett were cousins...

Were these 2 men working on Branson's dad's car, friends of his dad? I mean, it seems only logical that these 2 men working on the car had to have seen SOMETHING. I mean seriously, a 20-year old guy doesn't just go put jumper cables into a shed outside, where these 2 men are outside also working on a car, and vanish, and nobody has seen anything? I find that just a bit odd. And than the jumper cables Re-APPEAR. Something is not right.

Strictly all MOO.

Petition started to have the governor get the law enforcement more involved in Bransons case.. 6 years is too long.! This mother needs answers!


http://www.petitiononline.com/04112001/petition.html

Thanks for bumping up this link. I never knew that Branson and Bobbi Jo were cousins.

Somebody knows something about Branson. I just do not believe that he could walk to a shed and no one saw a thing. People do not vanish into thin air.

Praying Branson's mother will find some answers to her son's disappearance. Enjoyed looking at the pictures of Branson over the years on his web site. What a cute little boy that grew into a handsome young man.

[n/t]

Linda, what new leads were made to have Branson's mother believe Rogers was lying? Is Rogers still in prison?


Sorry, I haven't followed this case. Prayers going out to Branson and his family and friends. Branson, hope you're safe and will be found soon.

His mother said that the Highway Patrol made the statement to her that they didnt believe it was Rogers..

Yes he is still in Prison...Here is the PDF file on that.. Branson is mentioned on page 2 of this document..

Rogers admitted in a chat log that he took Branson, but denied it when he was caught and sentenced for the other...


http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/05/09/042563P.pdf

Branson is now on The America's Most Wanted website..

http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/brief.cfm?id=46629

It took me almost a year to get him placed on that site.

[txsage]

bumping for Branson!

Thanks txsage

Justice For Branson Kayne Perry Petition


http://www.petitiononline.com/04112001/petition.html

[txsage]

Originally posted by Linda Stovall
Justice For Branson Kayne Perry Petition


http://www.petitiononline.com/04112001/petition.html

Is this just for MO residents?