The Disappearance of Robert "Bobby" Desmond (Maine)

Published: Sept. 5, 2022, 7:30 a.m.

Robert "Bobby" Desmond's case is the oldest on the Maine State Police Unsolved Missing Persons case list but his story has never been told. Detective Steve Borst of the Kennebunk Police Department is reigniting the decades-old investigation for an 11-year old boy gone missing in 1964 and nearly forgotten.\n\nThrough interviews with surviving family members, limited archival news sources, and other investigative resources, Detective Borst is learning more about the life of Bobby Desmond and what could have happened to him all those years ago.\n\nSomeone, somewhere may have that one key piece of information that inches this case closer to closure than it\u2019s ever been.