Gary Hose

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## Gary Hose

### Classification

Suspected homicide

**Gary Ray Hose** is a boy who disappeared from Phoenix, Arizona on April 30, 1974. It is believed his abusive parents killed him, but they have not been arrested or charged.

## Case

In the 1990s, Jerry Lee Hose, the twin brother of Gary, came forward and stated their mother, Charlene, killed the latter in 1974. His statements have not been verified. At the time, the twins were both kindergarten students at Campo Bello School.

In November 2015, an older brother, Guy, brought a backhoe to where the Hose family lived in 1974 in Maricopa, Arizona and started digging. The property is still owned by Charlene. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office stopped him because he was trespassing, but they would dig up the Maricopa property as well as the backyard of a house in north Phoenix which had once been owned by Charlene. They uncovered no evidence and do not put Gary's disappearance as a priority.

Gary's case received attention from the local press because of the digs and the testimony of his former babysitter who did not know until then that he was missing. According to her, the Hose children were beaten and abused and Charlene instructed her to lock Gary and Jerry alone in their room with no food or water. At the time, the babysitter told her mother about this and her mother called the police, but the children were not removed from the home.

Guy confirmed that he and his siblings, the twins most of all, were abused by both their mother Charlene and their stepfather, Walter. While Walter was just excessive with the belt beatings, Charlene, "was responsible for the broken bones, beatings, the hospitalization, and the internal bleeding." While Jerry was passive, Gary was defiant. One night on April of 1974, Gary ran away, but was caught and returned by the police. Later that night, the Hose children believed that Charlene and Walter beat him to death and disposed of the body. Days afterwards, the family moved out of their home near Cave Creek and Greenway roads in the middle of the night and lived on the Maricopa property, which was a trailer located on a three-acre desert parcel on North Maple Street.

At the time, Guy believed Gary had "got lucky" and had been sent to live with a family in Texas who later adopted him. Charlene and Walter threatened the children to never mention Gary again. Eventually, Charlene was arrested for child abuse in Idaho and Jerry, who suffered brain damage after years of abuse, was adopted by another family at the age of fourteen.

As of 2015, Walter is deceased and Charlene was residing in a retirement home in Oregon. She suffers from the late stages of Alzheimer's disease, so it is unlikely she will be charged for Gary's murder. The rest of the family believes the key to Gary's disappearance can be found at the Maricopa property. As of June of 2021, he has been ruled out as thirteen unidentified decedents across the United States.

## Characteristics

* Brown hair.
* Blue eyes.

## Sources

* *AZ Family (CBS 5)*
* Gary Hose at the *Charley Project*
* Gary Hose at *NamUs*
* *Pheonix New Times*