Three-month-old Robert Bowling vanished after a family trip that began in Parker, Colorado, in late summer 1985. On August 11 he was last seen with his mother, Laura Bowling, his eighteen-month-old sister Ashley, and Laura’s boyfriend, John David Hinton. The adults later resurfaced in Louisiana without the children; both Robert and Ashley were officially listed as missing.

Ashley was found in 1996 living with a family in Louisiana who had adopted her and was reunited with her biological father. Robert’s fate remains unresolved. Laura reportedly gave conflicting accounts over time, saying once that he died of pneumonia and later accusing Hinton of shaking him to death; Hinton also said Robert died of pneumonia. There are claims Robert’s body was put in a plastic bag and discarded in a trash bin in Louisiana, but no physical evidence has been publicly reported. No photographs of Robert exist; only composite sketches and age progressions have been used in the search.

Does anyone have information about Robert’s whereabouts in 1985 or about the adults who were with him that day?