Emilie Hardy
Real Name: Emilie Claire Pearson Hardy
Nicknames: No known nicknames
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
Date: January 29, 1995
Bio[]
Occupation: None
Date of Birth: January 8, 1992
Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Characteristics: White female with Blonde hair and blue eyes. She likes dancing, sing-a-longs, and The Lion King.
Case[]
Details: Three-year-old Emilie Hardy was the daughter of Joanne Pearson and Rejean Hardy. After they divorced, Joanne remarried and received primary custody of her. Rejean also remarried and moved to Phoenix, Arizona. On January 29, 1995, he picked her up from Joanne's home in Grand Junction, Colorado, for a scheduled custody visit. They never returned; instead, they flew back to Phoenix where he stole his second wife's car. Joanne has been searching from them ever since.
Suspects: Rejean has been charged with felony violation of custody in relation to Emilie's abduction.
Extra Notes:
- This case first aired on a Special Bulletin in the October 20, 1995 episode, along with that of Red Dye Robber.
- It was excluded from the FilmRise release of the series.
Results: Solved. In August 1997, a golf course manager recognized Emilie and Rejean after receiving a missing persons flier from the Missing Children Society of Canada, a Canadian missing children's organization. They had been living in Guadalajara, Mexico with Rejean's second wife, a Mexican national. On September 2, they were arrested in Guadalajara by FBI agents. However, a housekeeper and two teenage boys escaped with Emilie. The next day, she was reunited with Joanne and her stepfather, Charlie. Two days after that, she was returned to Colorado and reunited with the rest of her family. Although she could only speak Spanish, she and Joanne were able to easily reconnect after their two-year separation.
Links:
- Alleged child abductor aided by delay - February 21, 1995
- Sloan defends search methods - February 24, 1995
- A thankless search for missing children - May 31, 1995
- The search for Emilie - 1 year after abduction, tot's mom won't quit - January 3, 1996
- Mass mailing seeks info on missing girl - January 31, 1996
- Stiffer price for parental kidnapping is proposed - October 2, 1996
- Child Find - November 30, 1996
- After 2 years, mom learning to accept that missing child could be anywhere - January 29, 1997
- Abducted girl found in Mexico - September 4, 1997
- Mother, daughter reunited - September 4, 1997
- "Overwhelming" - Reunited mom, girl come home - September 5, 1997
- Kidnapped daughter returns after two years - September 6, 1997
- City man arrested in kidnapping - September 7, 1997
- Women find abducted child in Mexico - September 11, 1997
- Pearson family getting reacquainted after daughters abduction, nearly 3-year absence - September 21, 1997
- One mother's love triumphs - January 1, 1998
- Emilie Hardy Missing Poster - April 4, 1998
- GJ cops looking for pair accused of kidnapping - July 11, 1998