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James Willard McNeely










Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021


McNeely, approximately 1972; David Childs




Date reported missing : 04/08/1972

Missing location (approx) :
Frankfort, Kentucky
Missing classification : Lost/Injured Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
Age at the time of disappearance: 37 years old
Height / Weight : 6'2, 200 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian male. Black hair, blue eyes.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : McNeely, a Kentucky State Trooper, was last seen while on a flood rescue mission on the Kentucky River in Frankfort, Kentucky on April 8, 1972. His boat was swept over the dam at Lock 4.
Another state trooper, 39-year-old David Thomas Childs, was in the boat. His body was later found in the Ohio River near Tell City, Indiana; he had drowned. McNeely's body has never been recovered, but he is presumed to have drowned also. A photo of Childs is posted with this case summary.
In May 2014, the Kentucky State Police held a memorial service for McNeely and named a five-mile stretch of KY 339 "James W. McNeely Memorial Highway", in his honor. He disappeared one day after the sixteenth anniversary of the day of his joining the state police, leaving behind a wife and three children.


Other information and links : ncy

Kentucky State Police
Post 12
502-227-2221



September 2021 updates and sources

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Kentucky State Police




October 12, 2004. January 7, 2016; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.