Posted on 01/20/2007 6:59:38 PM PST by Halls
Crime: Living With Evil
In 2002, Shawn Hornbeck was abducted while riding his bike. He turned up four years later—alive, the alleged captive of a pizza-parlor manager. The saga of a kidnapped boy and his accused tormentor.
Jan. 29, 2007 issue - He thought they were best friends. For the past three years, Tony Douglas had palled around with a boy whose name, he believed, was Shawn Devlin. The two 15-year-olds had ridden bikes together, gone skateboarding, hung around the mall and played videogames like Dragon Ball Z and Gears of War. But last week, as he sat with his mother, watching TV in the living room of their modest apartment in suburban St. Louis, Tony was having a hard time believing that Shawn, whose real last name was Hornbeck, had been abducted as an 11-year-old and held hostage, or something worse. All that time, Shawn had been, as Tony put it to a visiting NEWSWEEK reporter, "like a brother to me."
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Turn on Fox News!
got it on, watching now! Waiting for this new big bombshell!
Re Fox:I don't know what the point of reporting that was. It seems it will only serve to bring embarrassment to a family that is already hurting. Does it add anything to the current case?
Good information above though. Thanks for the ping.
nope, not a thing and pretty pathetic if you ask me!
"Does it add anything to the current case?"
that depends on whether the 60= yr old has anything to do with Devlin or is otherwise part of this case....too much coincidence here in multiple ways, methinks.
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