Posted on 01/12/2007 2:39:17 PM PST by cgk
No link yet...
It sounds to me as if Devlin had him brainwashed.
At Imo's Pizzeria, where Devlin was a manager, an employee who did not want to be identified told the newspaper that a boy called the restaurant Friday afternoon looking for Devlin, who was being questioned by the
FBI at the time. The worker noticed on the caller ID that the call came from Devlin's home. The boy told him, "I'm Shawn Wilcox. My father is a friend of Mike Devlin."
Hornbeck spoke with a Kirkwood police officer to report his bike stolen about 10 months after he was kidnapped from nearby Washington County.
The report says Hornbeck identified himself to police officer Christopher Moss as Shawn Devlin and gave police no indication that he had been kidnapped. He told police the bike had been taken from outside the apartment where he lived with his alleged captor Michael Devlin.
Hornbeck, while kidnapped, carried on a relationship with a girl at one of St. Louis' most elite private schools.
Students at Visitation Academy, an all-girls school, say Hornbeck dated a freshman there for several months. The students said Hornbeck and the girl were even spotted holding hands at an area mall.
The couple even went to what's described as the "social event of the season," the Visitation-Priory Dance, at the St. Louis Priory school.
His girlfriend, a freshman at all-girl Visitation Academy, was devastated to learn Shawn was the boy abducted four years ago and living with his alleged captor just two miles from her home, friends told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"I know it's getting hard for her because everyone is giving her a hard time," one of her schoolmates said. "They're saying, 'Oh, you must have known he was missing or had been abducted.' "
"But, honestly, she had no idea," the classmate added.
on Sept. 29, 2006, a police officer in suburban Glendale stopped Shawn late at night because he was wearing dark clothes and didn't have reflectors on his bike.
According to the police report on that encounter, Hornbeck told the officer his name was Shawn Devlin and gave him the birth date July 7, 1991, 10 days off his true date of birth. He told the officer he was riding his bike to his apartment in Kirkwood after visiting a friend's home.
On Friday, Hornbeck's stepfather, Craig Akers, said he was haunted by having dismissed a series of messages he apparently posted on a Web site his parents had created in their search for him. "How long are you planning to look for your son?" read one of the messages, signed "Shawn Devlin."
"Never in my wildest dreams would have I have imagined it was my son who had done that," Akers said, adding that he had assumed the messages were like many others sent by people who falsely claimed to be Shawn or to know where he was.
Well, WELL!
http://www.geocities.com/farmgirl1032001/Shawn_Hornbeck.html
Check out the date of Shawn's bio dad's death!
and another!
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art23442.asp
Me too!
I've been searching and coming up empty.
These website's are not proof enough for me. Personally I need something better than this.
Surely they checked it out to some degree. They may have the wrong Hornbeck or they have the right one.
See if you can find a statement by Pam or Craig that says Shawn's real father died in 1999.
I am not getting any hits for a sexual offender under the name of Hornbeck.
yeah, it isn't proof enough for me either. I'm looking more, but can't find anything. If I knew what Shawn's bio dads name was that would be a start.
Bingo! Shawn’s biological father died in 1999.
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I missed Clint Van Zandt on C2C this evening. He was to talk about Shawn and Ben. I hope it will air again. Anybody know?
I believe it is Walter Hornbeck and was on the shawnhornbeck.com site. I will try to get the link.
From the google cached version of shawnhornbeck.com
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:CK5mhIKNi9MJ:www.shawnhornbeck.com/+Shawn+Hornbeck&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8
FAQ's - Frequently Asked Questions -
Q: Who is Shawns biological father?
A: Shawn's biological father is Walter Hornbeck.
Q: Could Shawn have been taken by his biological father?
A: Shawn's biological father COULD NOT have anything to do with Shawns disappearance because he has been dead for almost 3 years.
Q: Is Craig Shawns biological father?
A: Craig is Shawn's step-father. Craig has known Shawn since he was about 1 year old. Craig is the only father that Shawn has ever known.
I am scanning obits now...
They did day that his father was "older". So his father may have been quite a bit older than his mother.
I knew it! FOXNEWS screwed up big time tonight!
Thanks for the info.
The page isn't there. Apparently, even the cached pages are now gone.
sure!
I have been looking but nothing so far.
Walter C. Hornbeck
born 7 August 1931
Died 9 June 2000
Cedar Hill, Jefferson, Missouri
Public records index shows that Walter C. Hornbeck born 7 August 1931 lived in Richwoods, Missouri.
Thank you...
Let's hope that the Akers were not trying to cover up anything by just saying that Shawn's Dad was dead when he was actually sitting in jail or prison.
I am not saying that they are lying I just want to find some valid proof that his father is really dead and died in 1999 or 2000 then I want FOX and the NY Post to eat it.
Thank you for finding that!
if this is Shawn's father than FOXNEWS got it very wrong tonight! 2000 isn't much difference and easy to mistake in saying someone died in 1999. One year isn't that big of a jump, but to say he was convicted for a crime in 2002 when clearly he was already dead is bad reporting!
I did find this on the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20030203062421/http://shawnhornbeck.com/
Click on the question about his father and the answer comes up. This was posted in Feb 2003
I bet that is him... it matches up with the location in MO
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