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1 . "Robert Marcos Romero Image ~ Fact Sheet "
Posted by LadyBug on Nov-11-00 at 10:52 PM (EST)
Endangered Missing
ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT :
Santa Fe Police Department (New Mexico)
1-505-955-5000

ROBERT MARCOS ROMERO
Missing June 7, 2000

Birthdate :April-10-1993 Age : 7 years
Height : 3' 9" Weight : 50 lbs
Eyes : Brown Hair : Brown

Circumstances : Robert was last seen on his way to a friend's home in the Bellemah area of Santa
Fe, New Mexico. He was wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt and black and white tennis shoes. Robert
has freckles.

City of Report :SANTA FE, New Mexico, USA
NCMEC Case Number : 887928

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
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1-505-955-5000

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2 . "Officer in Romero Case Loses Rank "
Posted by Ishtar93 on Nov-28-00 at 01:12 PM (EST)
Tuesday, November 28, 2000

Officer in Romero Case Loses Rank

By Daniel J. Chacón
Journal Staff Writer
A Santa Fe Police Department lieutenant has been demoted following an internal affairs investigation
into the June disappearance of missing 7-year-old Robbie Romero.
"I was disciplined for the Romero case, and the discipline brought against me was a demotion — a
knock-down in rank," Jerry Archuleta, now a sergeant, said Monday.
"I can't go into specifics because an appeal has been filed," he said. "What I'm being demoted for,
there are bigger issues.
"I just feel that I'm being sought after," he said, refusing to elaborate.
Deputy Police Chief Beverly Lennen would not comment on Archuleta's reduction in rank, calling it a
personnel matter.
Lennen, who would only confirm Archuleta's current rank, referred questions to city attorneys Peter
Dwyer and Mark Allen, neither of whom returned calls for comment Monday.
While the reason behind Archuleta's demotion is being kept confidential, it's no secret Archuleta was
the night-shift supervisor who failed to call for an expanded police search after Romero was reported
missing from his Bellamah Drive neighborhood June 7.
Police have acknowledged the search for Romero began nine hours after he was reported missing.
"What could be more important than a 7-year-old who is missing?" Evelyn Romero, the missing boy's
mother, said Monday. "We were looking for him when that's the police department's job. I felt that if
they would have responded, maybe we would have found him in time."
The night Robbie vanished, Evelyn Romero stopped Officer Isaac Valerio around 11 p.m. in front of her
home to report her son missing. The boy had last been seen around 7:30 p.m.
"We expected them to look for him," Evelyn Romero said. "But we had (Valerio) helping us off and on
— he had other calls. I just don't understand. A child. Seven years old. A baby. He was in the first
grade. I don't know what (the police) were thinking."
Neither Archuleta nor anyone in the graveyard-shift crew told the day-shift commander about the
boy's disappearance. That commander discovered the missing-boy report only when he came on duty
and looked through reports from individual incidents from the previous shift and then initiated the
search.
Archuleta, who was earning $26.22 an hour as a lieutenant, a rank he made last November, is now
getting paid $23.65 an hour as a sergeant, according to Rumalda Duran, a city administrative
secretary.
Evelyn Romero and her husband, Rudy, filed a tort claim notice Sept. 1 against the city, alleging
police have failed to adequately investigate their son's disappearance and delayed the search after
their son was reported missing. Robbie's parents also claim police harassment.
"(Archuleta) did nothing about it, and that's one of the reasons we filed the tort claim notice," Evelyn
Romero said. "We don't want this to happen to anyone again. If somebody took (Robbie), they had
the entire night. I just hate to think of the possibilities."
Archuleta said the demotion has hurt him emotionally, but "losing a rank ... is not the end of the
world.
"In the scheme of things, the important things are my two children," he said. "To them, I'm not
sergeant daddy or lieutenant daddy, I'm daddy."
Evelyn Romero said she felt sorry Archuleta had been demoted. She also said it didn't make her feel
any better.
"It's not comforting at all — my son is gone," she said. "I want my son home. I want him found."

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/188634news11-28-00.htm



3 . "Leads on Missing Boy Wane "
Posted by Ishtar93 on Dec-05-00 at 08:06 PM (EST)
Tuesday, December 5, 2000

Leads on Missing Boy Wane

By Daniel J. Chacón
Journal Staff Writer

Santa Fe police report that the number of leads in the Robbie Romero investigation is dwindling as the
six-month anniversary of his disappearance approaches this week.
While finding the missing 7-year-old boy is the department's top priority, police brass announced last
week that some Violent Crimes Unit detectives would return to work on some of Santa Fe's old and
unsolved crimes.
"The bottom line is (the Romero case) remains the priority case for us. However, there are other
major cases going on that require the detectives' time and effort," Deputy Police Chief Beverly
Lennen said Monday.
"The volume (of leads on the Romero case) is no longer there, so they are able to work on other
cases," she said. "Certainly, up until a few weeks ago, we had more leads coming in."
Despite months of investigative work and several searches, including two at the Caja del Rio landfill,
the 50-pound boy with big, brown eyes who vanished from his Bellamah Drive neighborhood June 7 is
still missing.
The boy's mother, Evelyn Romero, said Monday that detectives should focus their efforts on her
missing son before his case, too, is listed among the department's other unsolved crimes.
"Three weeks ago," Evelyn Romero said, "two homicide detectives walked in questioning me in the
middle of the afternoon at work" wanting to know what she knew about her son's disappearance.
"I'm tired of the police saying these things to my family," she said. "I've already been polygraphed. I
passed."
Police have acknowledged that an expanded police search for Robbie didn't begin until nine hours
after he was reported missing.
"They can't find him because they did not look for him when they needed," Evelyn Romero said. "They
don't know how to solve cases. They said they were going to (double-check) all the leads. There's
definitely work to be done."
When the investigation into the boy's disappearance first began, there were "tens of thousands of
pieces of information that had to be followed up on," Lennen said.
As time passed, and those leads the department received were investigated and then verified or
eliminated, the workload slowly started to diminish, she said. She added that a case agent is still
assigned to the Romero case.
Although police will continue to investigate the boy's disappearance, the amount of work the
investigation requires "depends on the information coming in at the time," she said.
"Whenever we need to pull personnel from other cases to assist (in the Romero case), we do that,
and we do that on a frequent basis."
The department has spent close to a half-million dollars thus far looking for the boy and investigating
tips about his disappearance.
"The best way I can describe (how the detectives feel about this case) is a commitment to that
7-year-old boy and his family to bring resolution to this case," Lennen said.
But with technological advances available to solve old cases, there is a commitment to other victims
and their loved ones, too, she said.
"What (the detectives) are saying is that they intend to make time" to investigate some of the city's
unsolved cases, Lennen said. "It has already been ongoing for several weeks because this is a
commitment the Violent Crimes Unit had wanted to make."
Evelyn Romero said detectives should continue to tackle the missing-boy investigation head-on, while
it's still fresh.
"I can't go to bed (because I'm) thinking, what if there's no resolution?" she said. "It's been a
constant nightmare. Instead of (the police) helping, they're hurting us more."
Copyright 2000 Albuquerque Journal





4 . "skull compared to Robbie's DNA"
Posted by LovelyPigeon on Jan-26-01 at 12:58 PM (EST)
Santa Fe police don't think skull is Robbie's
By VERONICA GONZALEZ/The New Mexican1/26/2001

Santa Fe Police doubt a child's skull found in a rural part of a Northern California is that of missing
Robbie Romero, but detectives are waiting for DNA test results to determine whether it matches the
7-year-old.

Preliminary results determined the skull was that of a child who was 5 to 6 years old and had been
dead for at least six months, police said. Romero has been missing since June 7, almost eight months.

Santa Fe Deputy Police Chief Beverly Lennen said the skull matched two missing children. The second
child is a 7-year-old girl who has been missing from Santa Clara County in California for about a year.

The matches were determined by a check of a database kept by the Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, Lennen said.

"The chances are much better that this would be their missing child, but because of the low numbers
and because we have had other contacts with California in this case, we are certainly interested in
following up," Lennen said.

But, Lennen said, the skull could belong to neither child. Instead, it could belong to someone whose
disappearance has not been reported.

California's Santa Clara County sheriff's office crime lab is extracting DNA to determine whether it
matches a boy or a girl, said Sheriff's Lt. John Hirokawa.

"It's more likely it's California's missing child," said Deputy Police Chief Beverly Lennen. "It's less likely
that it's Robert Romero, but we're very interested. Realistically, we have to be prepared that it will be
their missing child."

The missing girl, Xiana Fairchild, vanished Dec. 9, 1999, as she walked home from school in Vallejo,
Calif., 70 miles from where the skull was found, near San Francisco.

During the police investigation into Robbie's disappearance, police have looked into some leads in
California, but "there is nothing firm in that area," Lennen said.

"It would not be the first time California has come up," she said. "Certainly, there is other information
that would most closely tie (Robbie's disappearance) to our own area."

Romero's mother, Evelyn Romero, said she was "just hanging on" after hearing about the find.

"It's just hard 'cause it's like reliving it again," she said.

A road worker in Los Gatos, Calif., who first thought the skull was a rock discovered it Friday on a
remote road in the hills overlooking the town and called the Santa Clara County sheriff's office.

Police in California used dogs trained to find human remains to search the area for the rest of the
body, but they found nothing.

Police hope DNA results will determine the sex and race of the victim and should pin down the identity
of the child, Hirokawa said. The results probably won't be finalized until next week, he said.

Hirokawa would not say what portion of the skull was found.

In the Fairchild case, the girl's mother, Antoinette Robinson, reported her daughter missing.
Robinson's then-boyfriend, Robert Turnbough, told police he had left Fairchild at a bus stop but later
changed his story to say she walked alone to catch the bus.

Vallejo police have never called Turnbough a suspect, although they said he has been under "a cloud
of suspicion" because of his conflicting tales.

A federal grand jury questioned both Turnbough and Robinson a half-dozen times. Police also sifted
through a landfill that accepts Vallejo's trash and organized searches, but turned up no sign of the
girl.

In the Romero disappearance, police have not named any suspects in the disappearance of the boy,
who vanished from around his home in the Bellamah Drive neighborhood.

Santa Fe police searched the city's landfill twice as well as the Romeros' back yard. Police also dived
into Fenton Lake in Northern New Mexico looking for the boy.

Hoping to spark renewed interest in the case as well as new leads, police released a 30-second
commercial with images of the boy but have not received any new information, Lennen has said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Last Update: 08/26/2002 13:45:03
(Santa Fe-AP) -- A Santa Fe woman whose son disappeared two years ago says she hasn't given up hope and that if remains found earlier this summer are those of her son she deserves to know.Robbie Romero was seven when he disappeared June 7, 2000.

Earlier this summer, remains found at an undisclosed location were sent to an FBI laboratory to see if they could be the boy's. Evelyn Romero, Robbie's mother, donated a DNA sample for comparison and told a Santa Fe radio station on Monday that the FBI has not given the family information on the tests. She says if it's Robbie, she has every right to know.

She criticized the Santa Fe Police Department's handling of the case, saying whatever they did was too late. Deputy Police Chief Bev Lennen says more efforts have been put into Robbie's case than any other current one.
http://www.kobtv.com/archive/2002/august/26/robbie_romero.htm


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