Man accused of abducting Lorena boy in 1992 found in New York - Waco Tribune-Herald
Lorena police, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have been searching for Kestel since he failed to return his infant son, Justin, after a court-approved visit on June 21, 1992. Kestel picked up his son from his... It was the last day Karen Hunter ever saw her son, she told the Tribune-Herald in June 2012 on the 20th anniversary of Justin’s alleged abduction. “I get most upset every year around his birthday, May 5, and in June on the date he was abducted,” said Hunter, who was living in Hewitt at the time and has a daughter and older son. Lorena Police Chief Tom Dickson inherited the case when he went to work in Lorena. He said the last lead listed in Justin’s file came in June 2011 from a father and son who thought they spotted Kestel and Justin at the Skyline restaurant in Huber Heights, Ohio. “Twenty-three years is a long time, but I know for 23 years, nobody, not the FBI, not Lorena police, nobody, has ever closed this case. It is said that police can make 100 mistakes in a case, but the suspect can only make one, and apparently something happened that led to Kestel’s arrest. “What it all boils down to now is that there is a mother who knows her son is OK and there is a child who knows he has a mother,” Dickson said. Source: www.wacotrib.com
