Try in the address box:
www.nypress.com/static/billboard.cfm?now=6%2F16%2F02
A page will come up: Crocodile tears. Click the highlighted box: UPI reported that police were starting to have their suspicions
Sounds worse than it is, so don't everybody come unglued. Not all at once, anyway :)
This story is dated 6/13/02, a mere 8 days after the abduction and most of the theories on it have been debunked.
Immediately after ES was abducted there were many theories in circulation and the hoax one was one of them. If there had been any validity to the hoax theory, it would have been followed, but nothing came out of it.