Evan Eric Chartrand was a 14-year-old male listed as missing from Wetumpka, Alabama, with public case records placing his last contact around Memorial Day 2017; NamUs lists the date of last contact as May 30, 2017, while other public missing-person listings, including Alabama law enforcement and the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office, refer to May 29, 2017. He was last known in the Wetumpka/Holtville area of Elmore County, Alabama, and was missing along with his mother, Susan Lynn Osborne.
Evan was described in public records as a white male with brown hair and blue eyes, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and approximately 160 pounds. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency listed the case as active and stated that Evan and Susan left their residence and had not returned, with their direction of travel unknown.
Before his disappearance, Evan was living with his mother on Waterview Lane near Highway 111, in a home Susan shared with her second husband, Jerry Marshall Osborne. Public case summaries describe Susan as a devoted mother whose family lived out of state, and Evan as a boy closely tied to her life. According to The Charley Project, Evan had medical issues that required frequent doctor visits and prescription medication, and he missed an oral surgery appointment scheduled after he vanished. That detail has weighed heavily in the public account of the case, because it suggested that Evan’s life and care were interrupted suddenly rather than continued somewhere else in an ordinary way.
For weeks after Memorial Day 2017, Susan’s relatives were unable to reach her or Evan. The silence was unusual enough that, after about two months without contact, family members reported them missing in July 2017. Public reports note that Susan had not been known to go more than a day or two without calling or texting family, which made the extended silence alarming. When investigators began looking into their disappearance, Susan’s vehicle was reportedly still behind, as was her daughter, while Susan’s and Evan’s belongings were said to be missing from the home. Susan’s two dogs were later found at an animal shelter, where they had reportedly been dropped off on June 12.
The account given to investigators, as summarized by public case sources, was that Susan had chosen to leave and that a man had picked up her and Evan; the next day, according to that account, the same man returned and removed furniture and belongings. Investigators and family members, however, found troubling details around the home and the timing. Public case summaries state that Jerry Osborne had remodeled the house after Susan and Evan disappeared, repainting walls and replacing hardwood flooring with carpet. Authorities later found approximately twenty possible bloodstains in the home, which were sent for DNA testing, and neighbors reportedly saw furniture burned on the property during the summer of 2017. The home also reportedly had a security system with cameras at every door, but footage from the period when Susan and Evan disappeared was no longer available by the time police investigated.
The silence after Evan and Susan disappeared has remained one of the most painful features of the case. Public summaries report no known activity on Susan’s credit cards, phone, or social media accounts after she vanished, and Evan’s prescriptions were not refilled. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s public alert continued to list Evan as missing and the case as active, and the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office still lists Evan Chartrand among its missing persons. In overview, Evan Chartrand’s case is the disappearance of a 14-year-old boy and his mother from the Wetumpka/Holtville area during Memorial Day 2017, followed by weeks of silence, a delayed missing-person report, unanswered questions about what happened inside their home, and an active search for the truth about where Evan and Susan went and why they never came back.Last Seen: May 30, 2017
