Three years old, with baby fat still puffing out his cheeks, the boy
in the video grins up at the dreadlocked woman towering over him and
asking his name. "Chis-ching!" he blurts. "That my ba-aaaaby!" cries Theda Thomas, sliding toward the edge of her seat.
On
this winter evening, Thomas, a substitute teacher for the St. Louis
Public Schools, is reliving scenes from the mid-1990s, when she was the
young mother of two toddler sons. To accomplish this feat
In 1996, KSDK-TV reported on the rare illness suffered by then two-year-old Christian Ferguson. Here's that report, submitted by Theda Thomas, Christian's mother: Read more about Christian, his rare illness and his mysterious disappearance in "Vanishing Act," the first of two parts of a Riverfront Times investigation by Kristen Hinman.
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."Christian Ferguson went missing six years ago Saturday. He was nine years old. His father, Dawan Ferguson, told police that his son -- and his SUV -- were stolen from a parking lot in north St. Louis, while Dawan was using a payphone. The SUV was recovered a short time later but without the boy inside.RFT writ
