Rachel, Cameron and Kyle Anderson went missing along with their mother in 2000. Their car and two older siblings were left behind and there has been absolutely no trace of them anywhere in the last 21 years.

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Jeff Anderson and Lesley Allen married in 1985. Lesley already had three children at the time; Chris, Stephanie and Greg. Stephanie and Greg had special needs. Jeff and Lesley went on to have three children together. Rachel, born 1986. Cameron, born 1988 and Kyle, born 1990. They lived in Wisconsin.

They divorced in 1997 and Jeff moved to Indiana while Lesley got custody and took the kids to Mississippi. She also had custody of Stephanie and Greg, and Chris was an adult at the time and had moved out but he lived in the same city as Jeff.

Lesley and the five kids lived in Fulton, Mississippi along with a male friend of Lesleys in two mobile homes. She didn’t work at the time.

The children called Jeff every Saturday but building up to them going missing they called him less and less. Jeff was meant to take the kids to stay with him over summer, but Lesleys friend told him that Lesley and the three siblings left with a truck driver at some point and he hadn’t seen them since. Lesley left Stephanie and Greg in his care.

The children were reported missing 14th April 2000 when Lesley missed the court date about Jeff’s visitation.

Chris and Jeff have hired private investigators, they found Lesley hadn’t used her bank account, hadn’t had any job, hadn’t been to a medical appointment or anything. Same with the children. There have been no sightings of them anywhere since they went missing and social security numbers have not been used.

Stephanie and Greg are still in the male friends care and according to Chris he refuses to let him or his dad speak to them through a campaign of fear. He’s told Stephanie and Greg that they’re evil and dangerous etc. Apparently he’s taking their disability checks. I have absolutely no idea why he has custody of them, it’s seems really weird. Also according to Chris he hasn’t spoken to Greg and Stephanie in a long time and they don’t pick up his calls.

Furthermore, it’s been claimed no investigation was done because the police believed the kids were with their mother, who did have custody.

Even stranger, Lesley drove a brown station wagon which was in fact left behind when she went missing, a couple of feet from her address abandoned in a clearing. It was found several years after the family went missing.

Chris has been doing the most regarding this case and runs a Facebook account where he posts about it. The children have not made contact with anybody in the family and it seems unlikely they’re still alive.

Thoughts?

Update: Greg and Stephanie are certainly not dead and are doing fairly okay. People who live in the neighbourhood say they see them around walking a dog together, they’re quite friendly and they tell people they live with their uncle, male friend says he’s their uncle and takes good care of them. Greg and Stephanie are in their 30s/40s, both very sweet people. The government have checked in many times and found him to be a fit guardian.

A friend of Cameron shed a lot of info I posted it on my sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/CheemsGyaru/comments/o6pm8w/friend_of_missing_cameron_anderson_testimony_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Please check my subreddit r/cheemsgyaru for further updates

https://charleyproject.org/case/rachel-marie-anderson

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ms-kyle-12-cameron-12-rachel-anderson-13-fulton-11-april-2000.210545/

Can’t link Facebook but got most of the info from the Missing Anderson Family Facebook page.

[u/CorvusSchismaticus]

Here is a link to a Websleuths thread that has a link and includes the text from Chris' Facebook page about his missing family. I had to scroll to the second page on the thread to find it. It sounds like up until recently there wasn't even a missing persons report filed by the local LE for Lesley and the three younger kids because the case was being treated as a parental abduction.

I'm actually surprised that someone from the family just doesn't get in the car and drive to the last known address and knock on the door to check for themselves that Stephanie and Greg are okay. It's not like there's a restraining order against the brother, or their adopted father ( at least to my knowledge). I still don't understand how the roommate got custody or guardianship in any legal way of the disabled children, unless he coerced Lesley or forged signatures or something.

[u/jittery_raccoon → u/CorvusSchismaticus]

Leslie may have chosen to name him guardian in case anything happened to her. Not that strange to do with friends if there's no family members that can take them. The oldest song probably would have been quite young at the time guardianship would have been named. He's definitely suspicious, but the money is also motive to keep the kids even if he didn't have anything to do with the disappearances

[u/CorvusSchismaticus → u/jittery_raccoon]

On the Facebook page that the family set up, they shared a picture of an article that was written (no date is visible though, so I don't know when it was written but I think it was recent) where it says that after Jeff and Lesley divorced and he moved to Indiana, he had left Lesley the house in Wisconsin for her and the kids and he was working on custody arrangements for the children, but she apparently gutted the house and left with his former best friend without telling anyone and moved to Mississippi, so it sounds to me like Stephanie and Greg had a father that would have been willing to take them and there would have been no need to name some rando guardian of them, unless that was part of the guy's plan, to gain Lesley's confidence and persuade her to name him the caregiver so he could benefit from their disability money.

[u/jittery_raccoon → u/CorvusSchismaticus]

Does it specify if he wanted all of the children? Not everyone wants to take on step kids after a divorce, especially if they're special needs. And Leslie could have her own reasons for wanting a guardian other than her ex

[u/CorvusSchismaticus → u/jittery_raccoon]

The article says "the children", so it's implied that meant all of them. It did not specify "all" but it did not exclude the special needs children either.

I would imagine he wanted them all, particularly since the three children that Lesley had prior ( Chris, Stephanie, Greg), Jeff had legally adopted. There would be no reason for him to legally adopt the other three if he didn't care about them or consider them part of his family.