1982 Hollan, Kelly 2-12-1982, Pinetree Hollow, Knott County

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Cold Case: Missing Person of Kelly Junior Hollan
On February 12, 1982, Kelly Junior Hollan was playing outside his residence in Pinetree Hollow in Knott County. The area was thoroughly canvassed for two weeks and no evidence was discovered. At the time of his disappearance he was six years-old. Kelly had blue eyes, a scar on his upper lip and is speech was impaired. Today he would be 30 years-old.

If anyone has any information about this case please contact Lieutenant Claude E. Little at the Hazard Post (606) 435-6069 or you can email him at claude.little@ky.gov

Investigating Officer Contact Information

KENTUCKY STATE POLICE
POST 13 - HAZARD

OFFICER: Lieutenant Claude E Little

PHONE: (606) 435-6069
claude.little@ky.gov

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Sunday, November 26, 1989




THE STORIES OF THREE ABDUCTED CHILDREN


Herald-Leader staff report

Ann Gotlib


Many police and social service agencies say the disappearance of Ann Gotlib was the spark that started Kentucky's missing-child search efforts.

Police and the FBI think that Ann was kidnapped from Louisville's Bashford Manor Mall on June 1, 1983. The only trace that was ever found was her red- and-white bicycle, which was propped up outside a department store.
Ann, a Russian Jewish immigrant, was 12 years old then. She would be 18 now. She has red hair and gray eyes.

Her case has been one of the most widely publicized disappearances in the country. Ann's picture has appeared on milk cartons, billboards, bulletin boards at truck stops and several TV shows about missing children.

Police also have issued a computer-enhanced rendition of Ann as she would look now.

Her parents, Anatoly and Lyudmila Gotlib, who left the Soviet Union in 1980, also have appeared on TV to talk about Ann's disappearance and the handling of missing children across the country. They still live in Louisville.

One of the last concentrated efforts in Ann's search was in October 1983 after her photo appeared in the telecast of an NBC movie about Adam Walsh. Adam was a 6-year-old Florida boy who was abducted from a shopping center and killed in 1981.

The FBI then began looking in the Somerset-Monticello area for Ann. A flyer with her picture was distributed to newspapers in the area after a woman said she spotted a girl believed to be Ann in a store in Wayne County.

Anyone with information about Ann is asked to call the Louisville police, (502) 588-3560.

Alexandria Suleski

Alexandria Christine Suleski has only been missing a month, but police are already considering her one of Kentucky's three long-term abductions.

She will be remembered at 7 p.m. today in a candlelight vigil in the Wal- Mart parking lot in Radcliff. Today is her sixth birthday.

"Alex," who is Asian-American, was last seen by her stepmother about 2 p.m. on Oct. 26 outside their Duvall Mobile Home Park trailer.

She is about 2 feet 9 inches tall, has brown eyes and shoulder-length black hair and weighs about 40 pounds. When she disappeared, Alex was wearing a white shirt, blue-jean skirt and cream-colored sneakers.

Police stopped searching with dogs five days after Alex was reported missing. "Our feelings at this point are strong that she has been abducted or kidnapped," said Greg Mayfield, Radcliff police public affairs officer.

Her case has been widely publicized, and Hardin County volunteers have set up an organization to help find her called The Friends of Alex Suleski.

The group recently set up a reward fund and distributed blue ribbons in Radcliff to "keep the memory fresh," said volunteer Teri Chapman.

Police have received about 25 calls from people who said they saw Alex, Mayfield said. Most of the possible sightings have been in the Louisville- Jefferson County area, but they have not turned up any leads.

Anyone with information about Alex is asked to call Radcliff police, (502) 583-3941.

Kelly Hollon Jr.

The case of Kelly Hollon Jr. is the oldest missing-child case in Kentucky. And state police believe even his mother has given up looking for him.

"I've tried to get in touch with her for two years," said Lt. Danny Webb of the Kentucky State Police in Hazard. "She used to come in here every day and ask us if we had found Kelly. I think she's in Florida now."

On Feb. 12, 1982, Judy Moore fixed breakfast for Kelly, 6. They lived in Larks Lane in Pine Tree Hollow in Knott County, about five miles east of Hindman.

School had been canceled because of heavy snow, and Kelly went outside to play in the front yard about 11 a.m. His mother said she watched him several times as he played, the last at 4 p.m.

About 6 p.m., Moore looked outside for Kelly. She couldn't find him, so she decided to eat supper and wait for him to return.

The rescue squad was called about midnight when Kelly had not returned.

At 1:51 a.m., the Knott County Rescue Squad called state police in Hazard. State police did not arrive until 3 a.m.

Police searched for several days, thinking the child may have wandered off and frozen to death. There also are several abandoned mines in the area.

"Anything could have happened to him," Webb said. "But everything that we could get into, we searched."

There were never any sightings of Kelly, who has brown hair, blue eyes and a speech disorder. State police kept track of school records to see if a child resembling Kelly was ever enrolled in a school.

Kelly's father, who lived in Madison County, was checked to see if he had taken custody. He had not seen Kelly.

"There weren't even any anonymous rumors or calls," Webb said. "It was like he just vanished."

Kelly's 14th birthday was Nov. 17.

Anyone with information about Kelly is asked to call the state police in Hazard, (606) 439-2343.










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Kelly J. Hollan Jr.


Left and Center: Hollan, circa 1982;
Right: Age-progression at age 29 (circa 2004)


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: February 13, 1982 from Hindman, Kentucky
Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Date Of Birth: November 17, 1975
Age: 6 years old
Height and Weight: 4'0, 60 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, blue eyes. Hollan has a scar on the left side of his face between his nose and upper lip. He may be called "Kelly Junior Holland" by some agencies.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A blue and white shirt, a blue hooded jacket with the zipper torn at the bottom, blue jeans and brown shoes.
Medical Conditions: Hollan was born with a cleft palate and has a speech problem as a result. He cannot pronounce certain words clearly.


Details of Disappearance

Hollan's school canceled classes on February 13, 1982 due to a heavy snowstorm. He stayed at home with his mother in their residence in Pine Tree Hollow in Knotts County, Kentucky (approximately 5 miles outside of Hindman, Kentucky). Hollan went outside to play in the family's front yard at approximately 11:00 a.m. His mother stated that she last checked on him at approximately 4:00 p.m. Dinner was prepared at 6:00 p.m. but Hollan's mother was unable to locate him at that time. Assuming he went elsewhere, she had dinner without him. When Hollan failed to arrive home by midnight on February 14, the day after he was last seen, the police were summoned to the residence. They initially assumed he had wandered off, perhaps to one of several abandoned mines in the area, and frozen to death. No trace of Hollan was found after an exhaustive search; he has never been seen again. Investigators now believe he was abducted.


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Kentucky State Police
606-435-6069



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
Kentucky State Police
The Doe Network



Updated 2 times since October 12, 2004.

Last updated March 6, 2006; Clothing/Jewelry Description updated.

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Posted: 10:30 PM Feb 17, 2008
Last Updated: 12:02 AM Feb 18, 2008
Reporter: Steve Hensley
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A | A | A It's a mystery that's baffled a mother and police for more than 25 years. A six year old child vanishes with no explanation.

In tonight's Mountain Cold Case, why the mother of Kelly Junior Hollan believes her son could still be alive.

On February 12th, 1982 in the Pinetree Hollow area of Knott County, Judy Moore let her six year old son Kelly go outside and play and he hasn't been seen since. At first, Moore says she assumed Kelly had walked to a friends house to watch television. It was a Friday night and the Dukes of Hazzard was on. But later, when she went to bring her son home, nobody at the friend's house had seen him. Moore believes her son was kidnapped and may still be alive.

"I really believe he's still out there, I really do. I'll always believe it until proven otherwise," Moore said.

A few years after his disappearance, Mountain News profiled the case. Police said at the time, they never found any sign of Hollan around his home.

"We searched in here three times that I can recall. There was never no evidence found of the child, nothing whatsoever," said Former State Trooper Paul Sandlin in the 1991 WYMT interview.

Police have questioned Judy Moore and she denies having any involvement in her son's disappearance.

"He was just like a little angel. Why would I want to do anything to him," Moore said.

Kelly Hollan would now be 32 years old.

"If he's out there somewhere, I wish he'd let me know. I don't want to disrupt his life. I just want to know my son's alive and let him know that I do love him," Moore said.

Moore says she still thinks about her son all the time, but certain months are more difficult than others.

"November to February is the hardest. November is his birthday then Christmas, New Years, then his disappearance date. It's like it's all coming again," Moore said.

Kelly Hollan had blue eyes, a scar on his upper lip and his speech was impaired. If you have any information about the disappearance of Kelly Junior Hollan, call the Kentucky State Police post in Hazard at 606-435-6069. You can also visit the Kentucky State Police cold case list at http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/cold_case.htm.

If you have a suggestion about a cold case we should profile, send an e-mail to steve.hensley@wymtnews.com.
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28 years later, Knott County boy's disappearance still unsolved

JACKSON, Jan 02, 2010 (The Lexington Herald-Leader - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- On a snowy day in 1982, 6-year-old Kelly Junior Hollan vanished from Pine Tree Hollow in Knott County.

His mother, Judy Moore, told police that her son went out to play and she never saw him again.

Though Kelly Hollan has been missing for almost 28 years, an aggressive police investigation, inquiries by family members, and Internet forums keep the case alive.

The latest tip came on Dec. 18, when Kelly's sister Margaret Campbell, who was only 10 when he disappeared on Feb. 12, 1982, told Letcher County Sheriff Danny Webb that her mother's sister, who recently died, might have left behind a letter with some information about the missing boy.


Campbell said Tuesday that her maternal aunt told her she was leaving a letter, "but we don't know if it's true." Webb, a former Kentucky State Police lieutenant who worked in Knott County, was on the case from the beginning and investigated it for years.

"I've had a lot of cases," Webb said in an interview Wednesday. "In all my career, that's the case that bothers me the most. I followed every lead. It hasn't added up since day one." Of the 13 cases listed for Kentucky with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Kelly's is one of only two categorized as a "non-family abduction." But Webb and Kentucky State Police Lt. Claude Little, who is now in charge of the investigation, say they aren't sure that the classification is valid.


"I don't know what happened to him," said Little.

There have been many rumors and theories. Judy Moore, the boy's mother, said she's been a suspect all these years, but that the accusations are unjustified. Moore said that she had nothing to do with his disappearance. She says she thinks he is alive.

"Why do they keep coming after me?" she said. "I would love to know where Kelly's at. That's my heart's desire is to know." A brother remembers In 1982, Kelly and his mother were living with her boyfriend in the Knott County hollow.

Moore and Kelly's father, Bobby Hollan, had divorced a few years earlier.

The Friday Kelly disappeared, he went out into the front yard about 11 a.m. to play, and Moore told him not to leave the yard, she said in an interview last month at her apartment in Jackson.

About 6 p.m., Moore hadn't seen Kelly in a few hours, and she assumed he had gone to his friend's house to play and watch The Dukes of Hazzard on TV. But when she went to check, the friend's mother said she hadn't seen Kelly.

"I was frantic. I was going everywhere, I guess," Moore said.

The details of that day are starting to get a little fuzzy, she said. She has seizures, she said, and forgets things.

When she couldn't find Kelly, she said she went to her boyfriend's grandmother's house, and asked to use the phone. But she said no one let her make a telephone call until about midnight, at least six hours after she first knew that Kelly was missing.

That's when, she said, she called police for the first time and she called her parents' home in Jackson.

Moore's parents had custody of her two older children, Margaret and Robert Hollan, Robert Hollan, now 35, and living a few doors down from his mother in Jackson, remembers hearing his grandfather on the phone. Robert Hollan said his grandparents thought that if they'd had custody of Kelly, he wouldn't have disappeared.

"I told you! I told you we should have taken him too," Robert said his grandfather shouted at Moore.

After Judy Moore called police around midnight, family members began arriving to look for Kelly, Moore said. But she said the police search didn't really get under way until daylight.

Search teams scoured the area for the little boy with blue eyes, a scar on his upper lip and impaired speech from a cleft palate.

Over the next weeks, police "dug up the hollow," Robert Hollan said. They dragged wells and creeks, looked in abandoned mines, looked under houses, but found no sign of Kelly.

Tips that lead nowhere The years since the disappearance have been filled with strange leads, Moore and other family members say.

Moore said once she got a phone call from a girl in Arkansas who said she knew Kelly from school, but then the girl's mother got on the phone and said the girl didn't know what she was talking about.

Moore and family members "sent letters to every school in Arkansas," but nothing came of it.

Then Moore's sister saw a picture of a gospel singer who looked like Kelly might have looked, so Moore contacted the gospel group. Officials looked into it, but the singer wasn't Kelly.

Moore said that a few years ago, she spoke with Kelly's former teacher who she said told her a Florida school had once requested Kelly's academic and medical files from Knott County, but it was impossible to say who because the Knott County records were destroyed in a fire.

Judy Moore said she wrote to talk show hosts Phil Donahue and Montel Williams for help and contacted celebrity psychic Sylvia Brown.

Moore requested Kelly's case file in 2000, state records show, but she was denied by Kentucky State Police and then Attorney General Ben Chandler on the grounds that the case was still open.

"Every time I try to find something out," she said, "I'm the one in the dark." Did boy's father know? Moore said she suspects that Kelly's father Bobby Hollan, who died years ago, kidnapped Kelly or knew something about his disappearance. She said Hollan at times drove a green car, and some neighbor said she saw a green car driving in the hollow that day.

But Bobby Hollan's sisters Wanda King of Beattyville and Dorothy Madden, who lives in Indiana, said there was no way that their brother was involved in Kelly's disappearance.

Bobby Hollan searched for his son for years, said Wanda King.

Kelly's brother Robert said that at one point, when he lived in Florida, he distributed fliers with Kelly's picture and looked for him there.

Hollan said he thought Kelly could have been taken to Florida because Judy Moore lived there for a time with a boyfriend who some people thought might actually be Kelly's biological father. Moore says that scenario is not possible.

Investigation continues Meanwhile, Moore said Kentucky State Police officers have given her lie-detector tests, and taken her back to Pine Tree Hollow numerous times to try to jog her memory or chase new leads.

Webb said he even took Moore to Lexington to see a hypnotist, but it did not help the case.

Moore said she has told a Kentucky State Police detective that she doesn't know anything new, "and if I did, I wouldn't tell you." All police do is "try to get me to confess to murder," she said.

Two or three summers ago, Moore said, police received a tip that Kelly's body might be buried under the home's old concrete porch. Officers took her out to try to get her to show them where the kitchen window had been. Robert Hollan said police dug up the concrete porch, though the house had been demolished long ago, and found nothing.

Webb said he plans to tell state police officers who took over the case from him about the alleged letter written by Moore's sister.

Webb said he has always doubted that strangers came into the remote Pine Tree Hollow in the Larkslane area of Knott County.

Webb said he has told Moore she is a suspect.

"The people surrounding her were capable of doing it too," he said.

Some people who were Moore's neighbors in Pine Tree Hollow in 1982 had criminal histories, according to Webb.

Robert Hollan said that after Kelly disappeared, his mother took him and his sister there to live, and he begged to be allowed to go back to Jackson with his grandparents. He did, though Margaret stayed in Knott County, and his mother eventually moved again to Florida and then back to Jackson.

"There are a lot of bad stuff that goes on in that holler," Hollan said. He said he thinks some of his mother's neighbors might at least have known what happened to Kelly.

Madden and King, Kelly's paternal aunts, said they continue to post information about Kelly on Internet forums and missing persons Web sites.

"I'll never give up," Madden said. "I'll keep looking until I'm 6 feet under." Robert Hollan said he wants to think the best about his brother. "I hope and pray he is still alive and doing well for himself," he said. "My gut says the boy is not still alive." Reach Valarie Honeycutt Spears at (859) 231-3409 or 1-800-950-6397, ext. 3409 To see more of the Lexington Herald-Leader, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.kentucky.com. Copyright © 2010, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.

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Posted: Fri 11:14 PM, May 11, 2012A A Updated: Fri 11:56 PM, May 11, 2012 Back to NewsMother believes son who disappeared 30 years ago will be found
Six-year-old Kelly Hollan disappeared 30 years ago, but his mother hasn't given up hope the Knott County boy will be found.

Judy Moore was cooking breakfast on February 12, 1982 when her son, Kelly, left the house.

"He hugged me and kissed me and said Mom I love you ... and that still hurts today. I mean...my son loved me." says Moore.

She assumed he went to a neighbor's house to watch TV, like he usually did. He didn't and, despite an exhaustive search by friends and police, no trace of him was found.

Moore thinks there's a good chance Kelly is still alive.

"I want answers. I would love to know where my son is," says Moore. "To have him call and say hi Mom, how great that would be?"

Kentucky State Police say they have followed up on leads for years, but have found nothing.

Moore and her son lived in the Pinetree Hollow area of Knott County.



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