Account
May 03, 2010
May 31, 2023
Jesse
Barton
51
15
66 inches
125 lbs
White / Caucasian
Male
In the fall of 1988, a 15-year-old boy named Jesse A. Barton vanished from Seattle, Washington. He was last seen on November 16, 1988. At the time of his disappearance, Jesse was described as a white male with brown hair and blue eyes, standing at 5'6" and weighing around 125 pounds. When he was last seen, he was wearing a blue ski jacket, a blue and white long-sleeve dress shirt, blue jeans, and gray cowboy boots. The circumstances surrounding his disappearance are not widely detailed in public sources, creating a painful void for those who knew him and a lingering question for the community. The available information regarding what led to Jesse's disappearance is scarce. Online sources state simply that he was last seen on that specific date in November. There are no public details about where he was going, who he might have been with, or what his state of mind was at the time. This lack of information makes it incredibly difficult for a clear narrative of his last known movements to be established. The case was formally registered with the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) years later, on May 3, 2010, indicating that efforts to locate him were ongoing long after he initially went missing. The disappearance of Jesse Barton remains an unsolved case, a quiet but persistent mystery. With no public updates or breakthroughs announced, the passage of time has only deepened the enigma of what happened to the teenage boy who disappeared from Seattle so many years ago. The Seattle Police Department is listed as the investigating agency, holding the case file for a young man who would now be in his early 50s. The overview of Jesse's case is one of an abrupt and unexplained absence, a story with a beginning but no discernible middle or end, leaving only the hope that one day, answers will come to light.
Nov 16, 1988
Seattle
Washington
King County
98118
No
8487
Seattle Police Department
Seattle
Washington
King County
98104
Elizabeth Litalien
Detective
610 5th Avenue, Washington
2066255011
Local
Law Enforcement
88-595338
1988-11-16
Seattle Police Department
Brown
Blue
Blue
05/29/2026
