Stolen Brothers: Who Took Basil and Jamal?
Two brothers disappeared, one was found murdered while the other remains missing.
Tambra Ellis never saw her son’s body. She didn’t want to see Basil Abdul’Faruq in such a state. Furthermore, investigators advised that she refrain from viewing his postmortem pictures.
It should come as no surprise because Basil had suffered a violent death. The boy had been stabbed and suffered a fractured skull. He was bound and gagged with duct tape, stuffed into a trash bag, and thrown into a dumpster. Had it not been for a passing truck driver who noticed his body protruding from the torn plastic, he would be lost forever.
What parent would want to see their fallen child after enduring such cruelty?
Disturbingly, Basil’s fate was not Tambra’s sole source of despair. Her other son, 7-year-old Jamal Abdul’Faruq, was still missing. He and Basil both disappeared on April 16th, 1990, with the latter found dead three days later. Had Jamal suffered the same fate? Or was he still alive? Tambra could only wonder what happened to her children at the hands of whoever took them on that fateful afternoon.
The brothers, although best friends, had different personalities. Basil was an intellectual who loved to study and wasted no time…
