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| Parents Still Seeking Answers to Son's June Disappearance in Diana 10/17/17 05:00pm By: Nick Altmire (nick@linkinglewiscounty.com) |
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"Kenny" McCall was last seen during the early morning hours of June 13th on the Tidd Road, in the Lewis County Town of Diana. I sat down recently with Valerie and A.J. McCall, of Lowville, who are still desperately seeking answers to the whereabouts of their son. With hunters beginning to enter the wooded areas of Lewis County for the fall season, they want people to be aware of their son's disappearance and to be alert for any signs of the missing man. The Lewis County Sheriff's Office has been the lead agency on the case since Kenny was first reported missing on June 13th. According to a press release from the Sheriff's Office that evening, Kenny was last seen around 4 AM on June 13th, headed in a westerly direction on the Tidd Road, near the State Route 812 intersection in the Town of Diana. A search of the area was coordinated by late that afternoon by the Sheriff's Office, with a command center set up at the Tidd Road/Route 812 intersection. That was a Tuesday and the search carried on throughout the week at this location, with the Sheriff's Office receiving assistance from the NYS DEC, NYS Forest Rangers, NYS Police, search dogs, and a NYS Police helicopter. Agencies also checked local camps in the area for any sign of Mr. McCall during this time. By Friday, DEC Rangers had performed a grid search of the immediate area with no signs of Mr. McCall found. Search efforts were scaled back by that weekend and the following week officials were no longer coordinating full-scale search efforts. Volunteers and family members had picked up the search at that point. Although the search was concentrated on the Tidd Road area, questions still remain on the exact area where Kenny could have become lost. According to Mr. and Mrs. McCall, the time line is based on information provided by Kenny's girlfriend- who indicated that they became separated around 4 AM on June 13th at the Tidd Road location. With the search starting later that afternoon, there is a window of around 10 hours that Kenny may have been travelling on foot. The Tidd Road area is a remote location that is heavily wooded with a number of marshy sections. Kenny's parents have tried to pinpoint the time line leading up to their son's disappearance based on information they have received. They say that Kenny and his girlfriend had been visiting Kenny's sister in the Natural Bridge area for about a week. During the late afternoon of June 12th, they left the sister's residence to return back to Cortland. Along the way, Kenny and his girlfriend had stopped at a location on the Kimball Mills Road, in the Town of Diana, to swim. Both had allegedly been under the influence of a drug called Molly. For some reason the pair left the Kimball Mills location on foot, making a right hand turn onto Route 812. A number of witnesses reported seeing a pair walking along Route 812 between 9 PM on June 12th and the early hours of June 13th. One witness placed them at the Route 3/Route 812 intersection in the Town of Diana. On their way back through the pair reportedly missed the Kimball Mills location and ended up at the Tidd Road to the south. At that point, Kenny and his girlfriend were separated when she indicated that her feet hurt, she was tired and thirsty, and didn't want to walk any further. Kenny was going to retrieve the car and come back to pick her up. He headed in a westerly direction on the Tidd Road, thinking it would lead to the Hogsback Road, on the opposite side of 812 from the Kimball Mills Road. This was actually the wrong direction to travel to return to the car. It was around 9 AM on the morning of June 13th when the girlfriend was discovered by a passerby, on the Tidd Road where she had separated from Kenny. In the days and weeks following Kenny's disappearance, there were some possible sightings in locations including Carthage, Philadelphia, Gouverneur, Watertown and Syracuse, but none of those were ever confirmed, according to Mrs. McCall. We spoke with Lewis County Sheriff Michael Carpinelli for an update for this article, with the Sheriff indicating that his department had no new information or leads to provide on the case. The family is left with no idea whether or not Kenny ever made it out of the wooded area. There has been no contact from Kenny to any family or friends over the past four months. "We just urge anyone who may have any information to please come forward to the Sheriff's Office," Mr. and Mrs. McCall said. "Also, with more people being out in the woods this time of year, we just ask people to keep an eye out for any sign of Kenny." Heavily wooded areas that they feel were not adequately searched include the Aldrich Settlement Road area and the Wahalula Truck Trail area, both in the Town of Diana near the Tidd Road location. The family is offering a $2,500 reward to "the person that finds and/or recovers Kenny so his family can bring him home." Anyone who may have any information on the case is asked to contact the Lewis County Sheriff's Office at 315-376-3511. |
Interview with A.J. and Valerie McCall, parents of missing Lewis County
man Kenneth McCall
man Kenneth McCall
A.J. McCall, Kenny's father, has placed signs in the area his son
was believed to have gone missing in June, to alert people in the
area to the disappearance.
was believed to have gone missing in June, to alert people in the
area to the disappearance.
