'In Pursuit With John Walsh' spotlights mysterious Hesperia disappearance of Brooke Roberts

Rene Ray De La Cruz, Victorville Daily Press
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"In Pursuit With John Walsh" will feature a segment about 11-year-old Brooke Roberts, who mysteriously vanished with her family nearly three years ago in Hesperia.
"In Pursuit With John Walsh" will feature a segment about 11-year-old Brooke Roberts, who mysteriously vanished with her family nearly three years ago in Hesperia.
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"In Pursuit With John Walsh" will feature a TV segment about a young girl who mysteriously vanished with her family nearly three years ago in Hesperia.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced that on Oct. 6, 2019, John Wade Roberts and Julie Danielle Englehart, both 49, and their 11-year-old daughter, Brooke Roberts, went missing.

Sheriff’s investigators said that in 2017, the family moved from Hesperia to Ozark, Alabama, where John Roberts grew up.

Return to Hesperia

The family returned to Hesperia in 2019 and lived at Motel 6 on Cataba Road in September and the beginning of October that year.

The motel is west of Interstate 15 and between Main Street and Amargosa Road in Hesperia.

On Oct. 6, 2019, Englehart had a telephone conversation with a relative, saying that she had found a job cleaning used trailers for an unknown business in the High Desert.

Englehart also said her family was in the process of moving somewhere near Spring Valley Lake, sheriff’s officials reported.

Englehart told her relative that she would call the next day again, but she never did. Relatives have not heard from the family since that phone conversation.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced that on Oct. 6, 2019, John Wade Roberts and Julie Danielle Englehart, both 49, and their 11-year-old daughter, Brooke Roberts, disappeared in Hesperia.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced that on Oct. 6, 2019, John Wade Roberts and Julie Danielle Englehart, both 49, and their 11-year-old daughter, Brooke Roberts, disappeared in Hesperia.

In Pursuit

The show’s producers have released an age-progressed photo of Brooke Roberts, courtesy of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, that shows what she may look like at her current age of 12.

The "In Pursuit with John Walsh" segment featuring Brooke Roberts will air at 6 p.m. PST on Wednesday, Nov. 2, on Investigation Discovery and streamed the same day on discovery+.

The producers encourage viewers with any information on Brooke’s whereabouts to call or text 1-833-3-PURSUE or visit InPursuitTips.com.

Anyone with information on the family’s whereabouts is asked to call the Hesperia Sheriff’s Station at 760-947-1500 and reference case number 191907476.

Daily Press reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227 or RDeLaCruz@VVDailyPress.com. Follow him on Twitter @DP_ReneDeLaCruz.

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