Pennsylvania Missing Persons

James Dupree Lewis, Jr
Missing July 28, 1991 from Lancaster City, Lancaster County

Vital Statistics
Age at Time of Disappearance: 4
Height: 3'3"
Weight: 60 lbs, thin build
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Clothing: White muscle shirt with black trim around the neck and arms, blue and yellow shorts, white socks.  No shoes.
Nickname: Squirt

Case Details
"Squirt" Lewis was reported missing on the morning of Saturday, July 28, 1991.  Initially, his mother's boyfriend, Maurice Martin, told police that he had left the boy in the car at the local Giant food store while he ran in for groceries, but when he returned, Squirt was gone.
What investigators learned was that, in the year or so that Martin had been in the family's life, the little boy had been the subject of extreme and constant abuse at the hands of his mother's boyfriend - abuse that had ended in Squirt's death.  The grocery store story had been concocted to cover what had really happened.
Martin was convicted in May 1992 of 3rd degree murder and received the maximum sentence, 10-to-20 years in the SCI at Camp Hill.
Squirt's body has never been found.

If you have any information about this case, please contact:

Lancaster City Police Department
717-735-3300

Sources
Lancaster Online
Patriot News
Lancaster New Era
Intelligencer Journal
NewsLibrary.com

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