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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former pizza shop manager who kidnapped two boys was moved to a prison in northwest Missouri Wednesday to begin serving his 74 life sentences in solitary confinement. Michael Devlin, 42, had been under evaluation at a prison intake center in St. Joseph since October, when he pleaded guilty in three counties and in federal court in the 2002 abduction of then-11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck and the January 2007 abduction of 13-year-old Ben Ownby. Both boys, from different parts of rural eastern Missouri, were found four days after Ben's abduction at Devlin's apartment in the St. Louis...

This week, Michael Devlin pleaded guilty in four different Missouri courts to charges of abduction, sexual assault and attempted murder involving two boys: Shawn Hornbeck and William (Ben) Own by. That brought to a close a case that riveted the nation back in January when police, who were searching for Ben, found him at Devlin’s apartment along with Shawn, a teenager who had been missing for more than four years. New disturbing details about the kids’ captivity emerged during Devlin’s court appearances this week. He admitted to tying Shawn to a futon in the early days after kidnapping him, making...

It's True Crime Time and we've got some new and lots on older cases. We've got the, heh, "Barbi Bandits" and Tara Grant, whose body was found and whose husband is nuts. The Couey trial goes on and does anybody remember Gary Condit? More on Devlin and another Russian spy muder. Finally, she was only ten years old, forced to sit in scalding water and had to apologize for getting her blood all over the place. A real heartbreaker; she's dead now.

Michael J. Devlin was charged today by federal authorities with four counts of the production of child pornography and two counts of transporting a minor across state lines for illegal activity. U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said that the transportation charges both involve the same minor, identified only by the initial "S," who allegedly was transported once into Illinois and once into Arizona. The child pornography charges, going from October 2002 to January 2007, involve still photography and video photography, Hanaway said. Advertisement Devlin already faces charges in St. Louis County, Franklin County and Washington County in the 2002 abduction of...

KIRKWOOD, Mo. (AP) - Accused kidnapper Michael Devlin's personal belongings were removed from his apartment Monday, with workers carting out boxes of toys, video games and skateboarding equipment exactly one month after police raided the home and found two missing boys. Devlin's brother and his attorney orchestrated the housecleaning, which three hired men carried out hurriedly in the drizzling rain. Devlin's landlord said FBI agents already had removed all the belongings they considered evidence in the criminal case against Devlin, who is charged with kidnapping and 69 counts of sexual abuse. What remained behind were the personal things - load...

For First Time, Officials Openly Accuse Michael Devlin Of Molesting Children (CBS News) CLAYTON, Mo. A Missouri man accused of kidnapping two boys and holding one for more than four years was charged Monday with molesting them — nearly 70 times in all. The charges were the first time authorities have openly accused Michael Devlin of molesting the children. Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager who had previously been charged with two counts of kidnapping, was charged with 69 counts of forcible sodomy, all felonies and each punishable by up to life in prison. St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCullough...

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch will announce this afternoon that he is filing still more charges against kidnapping suspect Michael Devlin of Kirkwood. McCulloch has scheduled a press conference for 3 p.m. in Clayton. The terse announcement of the press conference lacked specifics on the new charges.

Monster Next Door? From Webster Groves High to Imo’s Pizza to a cheap apartment in a forlorn corner of Kirkwood. For years Michael Devlin was all but invisible. Now he’s Public Enemy No. 1. By Malcolm Gay Michael Devlin as he appears in his junior-year photo in the 1983 Webster Groves High School yearbook. Jennifer Silverberg After working for roughly twenty years at the Imo's Pizza in Kirkwood, Michael Devlin had become a neighborhood fixture. Jennifer Silverberg Authorities allege that Devlin held Shawn Hornbeck and William "Ben" Ownby captive in this ground-floor apartment on South Holmes Avenue near I-44 in...

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. - Shawn Hornbeck's parents hope "to step out of the spotlight" to focus on their abducted son's healing now that he has returned home. That plan to take a lower profile was announced Tuesday during a news conference, as a suburban St. Louis homebuilder detailed plans to build a new house for Shawn and his parents, Craig and Pam Akers. The home will include office space for the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation, which Shawn's parents began as a means to aid in the search for missing kids soon after Shawn disappeared in 2002.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Detectives investigating accused kidnapper Michael Devlin have shown photographs of a teenage boy to the family of Charles "Arlin" Henderson, asking if the pictures resemble the then-11-year-old who disappeared in 1991, Arlin's relatives said Wednesday. Arlin's mother, Debra Henderson, and his uncle, James McWilliams, were both shown the pictures this week by Lincoln County Sheriff's detectives. McWilliams said detectives told him the pictures came from someone who claims to know Devlin and who said the teenage boy pictured was an acquaintance of Devlin's from years ago. Detectives were investigating whether the source did in fact know...

The sheriff of Franklin County is condemning as speculation a television news report that kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck himself helped to kidnap another victim, William "Ben" Ownby, 13. The news report has been aired by KMOV-TV (Channel 4), which attributes it to "authorities close to the case." The station says that on Jan. 8 near Ownby's house in Franklin County, Hornbeck shoved Ownby into a pickup truck owned by Michael J. Devlin, 41, of Kirkwood

(KMOV) -- Authorities close to the case tell News 4, that Shawn Hornbeck was forced to help kidnap Ben Ownby. Those authorities say that Shawn Hornbeck, a kidnapping victim himself, was forced to participate in the abduction of 13-year-old Ben Ownby and that a gun and duct tape were involved. Police say that Michael Devlin grabbed Ben Ownby after the boy got off his school bus on a rural road, but News 4 has learned that Devlin had help.

The man who fathered kidnapped teen Shawn Hornbeck was a convicted sex offender who did three years in a Missouri prison on drug and sodomy charges, The Post has learned. The late Walter Hornbeck was 60 when Shawn was born to him and his wife, Pamela Akers. He had little contact with his son, Akers said. Akers kicked him out of the house when the boy was just 6 months old, and the couple divorced in 1992, about a year after Shawn was born. Hornbeck was arrested in Washington County, near St. Louis, on Sept. 30, 1992, and charged with...

UNION, Mo. — The hulking pizza manager accused of snatching two boys in Missouri is so ashamed of his arrest, he can't face his own mom and dad. "I don't know how I'm going to explain myself to my parents," said Michael Devlin, who is accused of kidnapping Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby, in an exclusive interview with The New York Post. "It's much easier talking to a stranger about these things than your own parents."

Shawn Hornbeck's parents say they may never know the full story as to why their son Shawn never attempted to contact them or to escape during the more than four years he lived with the man police say abducted him in 2002. But they said comments by Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly that the boy may have enjoyed living with Michael Devlin more than his family had infuriated the couple. Shawn's stepfather, Craig Akers, said in an interview with TIME late Thursday evening. "Our son was 11 when he was abducted. A child that age can be mentally manipulated in...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Investigators announce a task force made up of federal, state and local investigators to examine whether the man accused of abducting Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby is responsible for other child kidnappings in eastern Missouri. Michael Devlin is charged in kidnappings in both Franklin County, where 13-year-old Ben was abducted January eighth, and Washington County, where eleven-year-old Shawn was abducted more than four years ago.

ST. LOUIS - The parents of a kidnapped Missouri boy said Thursday they believe their son was molested during the four years he was missing, and his grandmother claimed his captor had awakened the boy every 45 minutes, apparently as a way to control him. The comments came the same day the man suspected of snatching 15-year-old Shawn Hornbeck in 2002 pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping another boy on Jan. 8. Michael Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager, was accused of taking 13-year-old Ben Ownby just after he got off the school bus in Beaufort. A schoolmate's tip about...

Devlin also is under investigation in the 1991 disappearance of another Missouri boy who still has not been found, The Associated Press has learned. Michael Devlin is the "most viable lead" in the case of Charles Arlin Henderson, who was 11 when he disappeared in 1991 and has never been found, Lincoln County sheriff's deputies said. ... Investigators began re-examining the 1991 case after Devlin's arrest. Detective Chris Bartlett said a witness saw a man snapping photos of Arlin before the Moscow Mills boy vanished. Arlin's uncle, James McWilliams, said the boy came home from school a few months before...

NEW YORK -- Ben Ownby and his family appeared on the NBC "Today" show this morning to describe what it was like to be back after his abduction last week. Host Meredith Vieira asked the boy what he had felt when he was reunited with his parents. His answer: "Great relief." Ben's mother, Doris Ownby, recalled the words a police officer used to tell her they had recovered her son, who had been missing for four days: "We have him." "And I said, 'We have who?'" she added, " 'cause I thought he was talking about the bad guy," Advertisement...

KIRKWOOD, Mo. (AP) - While his alleged kidnapper was away at work, teenager Shawn Hornbeck apparently had access to a computer, and may have put photos of himself online and posted a chilling message on a site created by his own desperate parents: "How long are you planning to look for your son?" A series of Web postings under the name "Shawn Devlin" - Devlin is the last name of the man suspected of kidnapping Shawn and posing as his father - came to light after Shawn's rescue from an apartment in Kirkwood last week.