As LAPD Search for Teen’s Body Ends, Family Still Struggles With 1968 Murder

For a little while this year, it looked like Los Angles police might find the body of a teen-age boy murdered by a trusted neighbor 40 years ago.

But the LAPD plans to suspend the search today, having found nothing while digging near a freeway where they think the former heavy construction equipment operator buried Roger Dale Madison's body in 1968, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Even four decades later, Madison's sister, Sherry Barlow, 53, still struggles to come to terms with his murder. She and his other siblings have kept their deceased parents' ashes in an urn, hoping someday to bury them along with what is left of their murdered brother.

"I've been saying a prayer every night that they find some of his remains," she tells the newspaper.

Earlier coverage:

ABAJournal.com: "Public Appeal & Engineer’s Work Diary Lead to Dig for 16-Year-Old’s Body"