{"id":2145,"date":"2020-10-23T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2020-10-23T09:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T09:49:43","slug":"what-happened-to-jeffrey-michael-bratcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/what-happened-to-jeffrey-michael-bratcher\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To Jeffrey Michael Bratcher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeffrey was last seen in Ocean Shores, Washington on June 15, 1974 whilst visiting his father and stepmother.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_108299963-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_108299963-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_108299963-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_108299963-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_108299963-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_108299963.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His mother in Texas had custody of 7 year old Jeffrey at the time, and had brought him and his siblings up to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey was playing with five other children in a section of the park during the day; they were told to return to the adults, as dinner would be\u00a0ready at 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey told the other children that he would take a different route back to the adults in the picnic area, and he left the group not long before dinner time. This was the last time he was ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The picnic area was about 150 feet from the shore, and an extensive police search of the park area didn\u2019t give much insight into what happened to Jeffrey.<\/p>\n<p>Search dogs may have located his scent leading up to the park&#8217;s entrance, but it disappeared at the edge of the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, authorities believe Jeffrey was either abducted, or that he fell into the ocean and was swept out to sea. To this day his case remains unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>Information courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/charleyproject.org\">Charley Project.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey was last seen in Ocean Shores, Washington on June 15, 1974 whilst visiting his father and stepmother. His mother in Texas had custody of 7 year old Jeffrey at the time, and had brought him and his siblings up to Washington. Jeffrey was playing with five other children in a section of the park&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[107,619,265,78],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mysteries","tag-missing","tag-missing-oerosn","tag-mysteries","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}