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Old 01-12-2007, 09:47 PM  
JaneB
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
Very interesting. Seem they found that missing boy - and another missing boy at the same time.

From Yahoo News......

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A boy missing since 2002 was discovered living in a Missouri apartment on Friday along with a 13-year-old whose disappearance this week prompted an intense search, and authorities charged a man with kidnapping.

A tip about a white pickup truck seen in the vicinity of Monday's suspected kidnapping of Ben Ownby led authorities to the suburban St. Louis apartment of Michael Devlin, 41, where both boys were discovered apparently unharmed.

"Both appear to be in good health," said a relieved Gary Toelke, the Franklin County Sheriff.

Shawn Hornbeck, 15, was last seen on October 6, 2002, riding his bicycle in the St. Louis suburb of Richwoods. Toelke said his discovery was a shock to investigators who stormed Devlin's Kirkwood, Missouri, apartment.

A neighbor of Devlin's told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch she had seen Hornbeck for years playing with friends in the neighborhood, and assumed he was Devlin's son.

Devlin was charged with a single count of kidnapping and ordered held on $1 million bond, with more charges likely, authorities said.

A search was launched when Ownby, a straight-A student and Boy Scout, disappeared after getting off a school bus near his Beaufort, Missouri, home.

It is nice to read a story where the kids are found alive. It is usually not that way. I bet both of their families are so happy to know their sons are alive and that they will see them soon. I hope the scuz bag that took them gets his. They can get him in prison. It happens to child molesters all the time.
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