3 Missing Person Cases

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Nehemiah Omari Weedon

Kristen Branch delivered baby Nehemiah on August 13, 2014, while incarcerated at Duval County Jail. Sentenced to serve a year on drug possession, forgery, and fraud convictions, Kristen expected a family member to care for her newborn, but never expected the state to put him in the care of his father, Dwayne Curtis Weedon.

Weedom lived at the Sulzbacher Center Homeless Shelter with Branch's two older children, 2 and 4, at the time. Child services agreed Weedon could care for the infant in the homeless shelter until Branch's 2015 release.

By October 2014, Weedon told child service workers that he was having a hard time caring for Nehemiah and had made arrangements for an out-of-state relative to care for him. Two months later in December, shelter staff asked Weedon to leave their facility due to his continuous disruptive behaviors. Staff members confirmed Nehemiah had not been with Weedon since late October.

Kristen immediately contacted Weedon to pick up the kids in November 2015 when she was released from prison. Weedon told Branch that Nehemiah was staying with his aunt in New Jersey. She accepted this answer until December 31. When she still could not locate her son, she contacted police.

After investigating the matter, authorities determined Nehemiah was not in the care of any of Weedon’s relatives. Police immediately suspected Weedon of harming Nehemiah iin October before meeting with the child services worker.

Weedon evaded questioning and authorities altogether until late 2016 when he was charged with a series of crimes, including burglary, aggravated assault, and armed robbery. He’s easy to find these days, as a judge sentenced him to 35 years in prison on those charges.

More than 10 years after Nehemiah’s disappearance, police still aren’t sure what happened to the infant, although do believe he is dead and that his father killed him.

Erik McFadden & Dashad Smith

Erik Tyquan McFadden was last seen on November 23, 2014, in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was not reported missing until June 26, 2019. Police suspect McFadden’s disappearance is related to the disappearance of Dashad “Sage” Smith, a transgender woman with whom McFadden was acquainted.

Smith disappeared on November 20, the same day she had plans to meet McFadden at the Charlottesville Amtrak station for a second encounter. The two had exchanged calls and texts in the week before she disappeared. McFadden allegedly paid Smith to keep their relationship a secret from his girlfriend.

McFadden disappeared on his own accord. His girlfriend reported him missing on November 24. On November 27, McFadden spoke with police by phone, stating he was in New York and had never met Smith on November 20 because she didn’t show.

He then hung up the phone on police.

On November 29, McFadden spoke to his girlfriend on the phone stating he was coming home. He emailed the next day saying he’d changed his mind and told how Smith had blackmailed him and threatened to tell her they’d had sex.

In the email, McFadden claimed he did meet Smith the day she disappeared but didn't know what happened to her. He emailed his girlfriend again in May 2013 and has not been heard from or seen since.

He remains a person of interest in Smith’s disappearance, although police suspect foul play was involved in his disappearance.

Brittany & Deklon

This handsome little guy disappeared along with his mother Brittany from Hardin, Montana, on May 15, 2015. Dekkon was just six months old. The mother-son traveled in a 2007 Nissan Versa with GA license plate number BUG 16859.

Brittany and Deklon had been living with the baby’s father in Georgia when an incident in April 2015 resulted in a call to the police at about 3:30 a.m. Brittany told authorities Deklon’s father was abusing him. They visited the home but did not see any marks or feel the child had been abused. Officers suggested Brittany take Deklon and stay with a friend for the night. Instead, she started a journey toward Ohio to her mother’s home.

She phoned her mother saying the government was after her and she needed to get away. She accused her stepfather of abusing her younger sister as soon as she arrived at her mother’s house. Her mother suspected Brittany was suffering from some type of mental breakdown. They took her to the local Emergency Room where she was admitted to the psychiatric ward.

She stayed with her brother following her hospital release three days later. After several days at her brother’s home, Brittany and Deklon vanished after saying she was headed out to get food. The mother and baby were reported missing on May 7, 2015.

A week later, an Indiana police officer helped Brittany change a tire. Two days later, Brittany called her brother asking for $10,000. On May 17, authorities found her car abandoned on a highway between Billings, Montana, and Sheridan, Wyoming. All of Brittany’s belongings, including her cell phone and wallet, were inside the car, as was Deklon’s car seat.

Brittany nor Dekkon have not been seen since this date.