CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. More than one month after two young brothers disappeared from their small California town, the search for the children continues, and police fear foul play may be involved.
Orson West, 3, and Orrin West, 4, were reported missing on Dec. 21 in California City, Kern County, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
Jacqueline and Trezell West, their adoptive parents, said the boys vanished from the backyard, possibly roaming into the California desert. I saw them there, [I] went in the house, I came back out, I didn t seem them, Trezell West, the boys adoptive father, told KERO-TV. I realized that I left the gate opened, and I panicked, came inside the house, searched the house, me and my wife.
As of Jan. 14, the reward to find four-year-old Orrin West and three-year-old Orson West currently stands at $100,000, officials said. The brothers were last seen in the backyard of their Kern County home on Dec. 21.
California police are still searching for two children who were reported missing by their adopted parents last month, Fox Nation host Nancy Grace said in a new episode of Crime Stories.
The brothers, Orrin West, 4, and Orson West, 3, had been put up for adoption by their biological mother, Ryan Dean, shortly after they were born, KBAK/KBFX reports. Orrin and Orson had been living with Trezell and Jacqueline West in California City at the time of their disappearance, according to the outlet. They were playing with chalk [outside], I came into the house, I saw them there, West told KBAK/KBFX. I went into the house, I came back out, I didn t see [them] there.