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Episode
No. 111: Cold Case Parental Abduction Date: April 30, 2010 Notes: A conversation with private investigator Monty Curtis on a cold case parental abduction.
Monty J. Curtis, “a Certified
Fraud Examiner ("CFE"), is President of Corporate Intelligence Group, LLC. He has a distinguished career as a professional
investigator that spans more than 21 years. Sensitive internal inquiries, due diligence investigations, fraud investigations,
investigations into corporate sabotage, hostile takeover and proxy fight-related inquiries, environmental investigations,
asset searches, risk assessments and locating and interviewing witnesses are amongst the assignments Mr. Curtis regularly
conducts and manages. In addition, he is also experienced conducting investigations that involve numerous jurisdictions, unique
challenges and that require a vast array of skill sets.
Prior to joining CIG, he held management
positions at several international investigative and risk mitigation consultancies including Vance, Decision Strategies, Kroll
and the Investigative Group International (“IGI”). He was also formerly founder and President of New Hampshire-based
Investigative Strategies, Inc. that also had offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine” Monty
Curtis was “formerly a law enforcement officer and certified intermediate weapons instructor.”
On October 9, 1986, Charles Martin
Vosseler abducted his two boys, Charles Jason Vosseler (“CJ”), not quite four at the time, and William Martin
Vosseler (“Billy”), 2 and-a-half at the time. They were last seen in Rochester, New Hampshire. There are active
UFAP warrants for Vosseler and CJ and Billy are listed in NCIC. Vosseler informed his then wife,
that he was taking the boys for the weekend to visit relatives out of state. He did not return them as promised. On Monday,
the mother went to Vosseler’s office where he owned a rural real estate company. The doors to the business were locked
and the mother was told Vosseler had let all his employees go and had cleaned out the office the week before. Prior to the
abduction, he took the mother’s name off of credit cards and unbeknownst to her, had stopped making payments on her
car. Before he kidnapped the children he also took all pictures of the boys, address books and had secretly auctioned off
almost everything Vosseler and his wife had in storage. He even took the mother’s wallet. The only pictures of the boys
were taken from five seconds of video a friend shot of her son’s (the friend’s son) birthday. Other than memories,
those are the only images the mother has of CJ and Billy. Although the details of his initial post-abduction footsteps are
not known, we learned Vosseler, probably by design, he landed in Stilwell, Oklahoma in December 2006. Stilwell is a very rural
area that borders Arkansas.
Coincidently, or not, the house where
he lived in Stilwell is not far from Elohim City, a private community of extremists that gained national attention for its
supposed ties to members of the Silent Brotherhood in the 1980s and with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in
the 1990s. In 1986, the same year, Charlie kidnapped CJ and Billy, a Canadian woman sought refuge with her children contravening
a court order awarding custody of the children to her husband. I do not know if Vosseler had any connection to the organization
but he has been described as an “anti-government,” and “rules don’t apply to me” kind of individual.
In 1987, a person he had been
dating Vosseler (Vosseler had changed his name to Charles Wilson and changed the children’s last names as well) saw
a pictures of CJ and Billy on a Child Find. She called Child Find but before the FBI arrived in Stilwell, Vosseler had been
tipped off and burned his house, a vehicle and some other possessions. Presumably, this was done to get rid of any evidence
that might help find him in the future. There have been no known viable leads since then.
It has been nearly 23 years since Ruth,
the mother, has seen her children. She does not know the fate of her children, and most likely the children no nothing about
her. What they do know, if anything, is likely untrue.
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