Charles and his brother William disappeared from Rochester, New Hampshire on October 9, 1986. They were abducted by their non-custodial father, Charles Martin Vosseler Jr. A federal warrant was issued for him on April 3, 1987. Charles Martin told the boys' mother, Ruth Parker, that he was taking the children out of state for the weekend to visit relatives. After they didn't return, she went to the real estate office where Charles Martin worked and discovered he'd shut down the office and let all his employees go. He'd taken all of Charles and William's photographs as well as address books and credit cards and many of Parker's belongings and emptied the family bank accounts. He was known to have been in Oklahoma in December 2006, but there has been no indication of his, Charles or William's whereabouts since then.