**MISSING SINCE 09/12/2004**
Missing Since: September 12, 2004 from Kittitas, Washington
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: April 16, 1993
Age: 11 years old
Height and Weight: 5'0 - 5'1, 90 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Haynes is addressed by his nickname, Cody. He has a round birthmark on his inner right thigh.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A red hat and a red or gray coat.
His father's girlfriend, Marla Jaye Harding, has a scuffle with Cody. According to the girlfriend, Cody refused to do some chores he was assigned after dinner. Cody had to remain in the kitchen until almost midnight that night.
At midnight, again according to the girlfriend, Cody was sent to his room. His sisters were told not to go near his room.
Nobody checked on Cody until 5 pm the following day. At which point Cody was not in his room and his father phoned in a missing person's report.
Something terrible happened to Cody sometime after dinner September, 11 and 2:30 am later that night, September 12.
Because at 2:30 am that night, supposedly after the scuffle between Cody and his father's girlfriend, Cody's father, Richard Haynes, took a long and strange trip. When he left, to go "looking for car parts", Cody was allegedly in his room. Sent there after refusing to do his after dinner chores and after being punished by having to remain in the kitchen until midnight. Then Cody was, according to Richard and Marla, sent to his room. Two hours after sending Cody to his room, Richard Haynes embarks on a mission to find car parts in the middle of the night
This is a classic case of a child being failed by the people who are suppose to protect him. His mother, his father and the system. Cody's family was referred to CPS in December 2001 and again in February 2002. Both for physical and emotional abuse as well as neglect. But until Cody disappeared, CPS in Washington state deemed Cody's father was satisfactory even after investigating the complaints.
On September 23, 2004, over a week after Cody Haynes disappeared and not seen since, Child Protective Services again investigated the family. This time Cody's four sisters were removed from the home.
In February 2005, police obtained a warrant searched the Haynes residence. They had interviewed Cody's sisters several times since their placement in foster care. Initially the girls said nothing had happened to their brother, but later Cody's oldest sister told investigators that he had been beaten severely inside his home the day he vanished. Police searched for traces of blood in the apartment's kitchen to back up the sister's story, but the flooring there had been replaced after Cody's disappearance and without the landlord's knowledge or consent. A second search was made and police seized a computer and Richard's Chevrolet Suburban. They also searched Harding's car. Authorities made what they termed a "significant discovery" during one of these searches, but had not elaborated on what exactly it was they found.
At the time of the original story, his father and step-mother had lawyered up. They refused to talk about their son's disappearence. They refused to go to a candlelight vigil that was held for his son.
Haynes told The Spokesman-Review he would not discuss his son's disappearance without his attorney present."I'm not interested in talking about it. I'm not talking without my attorney present. No way," he said.
Doesnt sound like a man real interested in finding his son. It does, however, sound like a man who had something to do with the disappearnce of his son.
Let's keep Cody's case alive. Let's not forget about him. It's time to bring Cody home.
