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Vanishing Act: Six years after the fact, the disappearance of nine-year-old Christian Ferguson remains a mystery. A Riverfront Times Special Report.

A A A Comments (0) By Kristen Hinman Wednesday, Mar 18 2009

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"I started laughing," Thomas recalls. "I said, What do you mean, Christian is missing? What are you talking about? I didn't really get it. And then the tears just came jumping out of my eyes."

If Christian wasn't found — and medicated — within two or three days, he would almost certainly die.

Brian Stauffer

courtesy Theda Thomas

Christian Ferguson in an undated photograph from the 1990s. Says his mother, Theda Thomas: "Some people never knew he could walk and talk, how he loved to sing, how he prayed all the time."