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Hunt fails to turn up missing youth
by NADINE PARKS

Originally Published on 4/22/98
Page: B5
Keyword: Missing; Donation; Police; Fund

 
One B&W Staff Photo by Nadine Parks:Emergency workers enter a storm-water drainage system under the housing area at Charleston Naval Weapons Station to search for missing teen Kevin McClam and One B&W box on WANT TO DONATE?
 

GOOSE CREEK - On most days, only rats and snakes creep through the murky tunnels at Charleston Naval Weapons Station. But on Tuesday, they were joined by searchers looking for a missing boy. They didn't find him. ``Snakes and other animals in the ditch do have the right of way,'' a man instructed the team as it headed down a dark and dreary, wastewater drainage system in search of missing teen Kevin McClam.

About 50 emergency workers from the weapons station, Charleston County Rescue Squad and the Charleston, North Charleston and Ashley River fire departments searched the system for several hours. But they found no signs of the 14-year-old Marrington Middle School student who disappeared March 30, 1997.
 

``It's good they didn't find him there,'' said Kevin's mother, Tracey McClam. She and Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent Dan McCarthy say they are turning their attention now to the public. ``How can he disappear off the face of the earth without somebody helping him?'' McCarthy said.  He asks that citizens donate money to a Crime Stoppers fund so a substantial reward for information about the youth's disappearance can be offered. ``It might bring someone forward who has knowledge,'' he said. Kevin's mother is convinced her son was with someone the day he disappeared. His clothes were found on a dirt road in a wooded area at the station, and local psychic Elizabeth Baron and New Jersey psychic Dorothy Allison have said at least two people were with him. ``I know Kevin wouldn't go out there in those woods by himself,'' McClam said. The McClam family will be moving to another state next month, and McClam said she prays someone will come forward before then. ``It's very important. If somebody's out there, if they're scared to come forward, tell somebody - an adult or someone that will come forward for them. They don't even have to leave their name.'' She said she has prepared herself for the truth about what happened to her son. But the unanswered questions hurt. WANT TO DONATE? Police are seeking donations to provide reward money for information about the disappearance of Kevin McClam. To donate to the fund or to provide information, call Crime Stoppers at 554-1111.