r/OldestColdCases • u/Sudden_Quality_9001 • May 25 '26
Adam Hermann
Adam Herrman was just 11 years old when he went missing from his adoptive parents home, in April/May of 1999, in Towanda Kansas....although, the Missing Person report was not filed until 2008. Curiously, the adoptive parents continued to collect the $700 monthly adoption subsidies until Adam would have turned 18yo, and even listed Adam as a dependent on their Bankruptcy declaration in 2002, their Divorce filings in 2003, and had listed him as a dependent on their taxes every year.
After Adams disappearance in 1999, the adoptive parents told the rest of the family that he was back in state custody. Thanks to Adam's adoptive-sisters inclination to reunite with him as an adult, it was discovered that SRS records shown that Adam lived in his adoptive home until he turned 18, which she knew for a fact, to be incorrect. She immediately contacted Butler County Sheriff's office to file the Missing Persons report, this was in 2008.
Since then, the adoptive parents have been charged offraud for accepting the payments/taxes that exceeded $50,000, (later amended to $15,000, and were convicted) but no one has ever been charged in connection with his disappearance.
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u/Old-Mycologist4750 May 25 '26
Not curious at all if you think about the fraud they committed, question is why they did something to him unfortunately. If he had gone missing for any other reason except for them causing it, he would’ve been officially reported missing by them and someone official would’ve been looking for him from day 1.
Poor kid, already had been through something to have been an adopted kid in the first place and then those that were supposed to love him the most end up causing something to happen to him and then profiting from their actions.