It was on Thursday that local investigators caught a big break. Police officers from Kirkwood were serving a warrant on an apartment complex on an unrelated matter.
While there, the officers spotted a battered white Nissan truck. They contacted the Franklin County Sheriff's Department, which identified Devlin as the owner of the truck -- and later discovered the boys in his apartment.
Here is the real story...
2 Kirkwood police officers were in the area of the apartment when they saw a truck that matched the description of one seen leaving the area where Ownby was last seen. Geoff Hadler, a neighbor who called police to the neighborhood, had called because they had heard screaming in the area recently. He also took pictures of the truck in the parking lot.
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Hadler has been on TV all night talking about why he called the police, he is the one that told police to look at the truck in the parking lot a little closer. The perp was a real JO about his parking spot at the apt complex.