Missing since May are Jake Grant, 12; Mackinson Colas, 11; and Deangelo McKenzie, 13; Junior Remming, 11, disappeared in July.
Spokesperson for the show, Kim Newport, told the Guardian Wednesday that a correspondent would arrive in Freeport “next week to do some interviews and look more into the story.”
She said there although there was a “definite interest” in the case, a final decision had not been made on whether to devote a show to the missing Grand Bahama boys.
As Grand Bahama police and officers of the Central Detective Unit exhausted all avenues of search, they received help from the FBI, Scotland Yard and the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in Virginia. But a new school year began this week with no word on the fate of the missing boys.
America’s Most Wanted is hosted by John Walsh, a leading advocate of victim’s rights who provides a link between police and his television audience that has resulted in the capture of more than 500 wanted criminals since its debut in 1988.
Mr Walsh was associated with the Bahamas tourism industry in the early 1980’s when he was a partner in a hotel management company in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
In a highly publicised 1981 case, his six-year-old son Adam was abducted from a shopping mall in Hollywood. Police later discovered the child’s severed head in a canal 120 miles away. The body was never recovered.
Walsh and his wife Reve received the closure they needed when Ottis Toole, the prime suspect in his son’s murder (but who was never charged with the crime) died in prison while serving time for other offences.
The Walshes used their grief to help missing and exploited children. Battling bureaucratic resistance, their work led to the passage of the Missing Children Act of 1982 and the Missing Children’s Assistance Act of 1984.
They also founded the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to legislative reform.
The story of the Walsh family’s tragedy has been dramatized in the 1983 NBC television movie, Adam , and a 1986 sequel, Adam: His Song Continues .
Following the airing of the broadcasts, a roll of missing children was featured, leading to the recovery of 65 youngsters.
America’s Most Wanted debuted on the Fox television network in 1988 and announced its first capture four days later. It is the number-one crime-fighting show in the U.S.
By Jimenita Swain, The Nassau Guardian
