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The convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping two children in Idaho wrote about a missing Minnesota girl on his Weblog, and investigators are now looking into whether he might have had anything to do with her disappearance. On his Internet diary, Joseph Edward Duncan III wrote in early 2004 that he was afraid he'd be blamed for the disappearance of 5-year-old Leanna "Beaner" Warner. The little girl was last seen June 14, 2003, after leaving her home in Chisholm, some 190 miles east of Fargo, N.D., where Duncan lived. Chisholm Police Chief Scott Erickson said Friday that investigators are trying...

Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing May 30 during a senior trip to Aruba. AP photo

CHARLES CITY, Iowa — A young girl found dead in a river is believed to be a 5-year-old whose disappearance last week prompted a frantic search, authorities said Thursday. Searchers found the body about 7:40 p.m. Wednesday in the Cedar River (search), a couple of miles from little Evelyn Miller's (search) home in Floyd, Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer said. A positive identification was pending but Dettmer said it's believed the body is Evelyn, who disappeared last Friday. An autopsy was planned. Dettmer also said contrary to earlier reports, no arrests had been made and the investigation was continuing. The...

A latent but growing resentment here became evident for the first time when more than 200 people, some wrapped in Aruban flags, said they were incensed by statements made by the mother of a missing American teen. Those assembled outside the colonial courthouse in this Caribbean capital Tuesday night said they fear their tiny island nation is falsely being portrayed as not doing enough to find Natalee Holloway, the Alabama girl who vanished May 30 on a graduation trip with her high school class.

Tue Jul 5, 7:05 PM ET A search is on for a Hungarian-speaking parakeet that escaped its owners' summer home last week. Peetuka is a 4-year-old blue parakeet, said owner Carol Mezofi, of Queens, N.Y. "It was a hot day and we were sitting on the porch. My mom opened the door to go inside and he flew out," she said. "We tried to lure him back in and we stayed up all night but he didn't come back. We cried for a few days I don't think we'll find him now unless we get lucky." Mezofi and her husband...

Search Continues For Missing 7-Year-Old BoyAuthorities Believe Child Left Home Voluntarily POSTED: 11:01 am EDT July 5, 2005 WILLIAMSTON, Mich. -- The search for a missing 7-year-old boy suspected of running away from home entered its fourth day Tuesday after police and hundreds of volunteers failed to find him over the holiday weekend. Authorities believe Ricky Holland voluntarily left his house in Williamston, about 15 miles east of Lansing in Ingham County, after his parents put him to bed on Friday night. He was reported missing Saturday. The Ingham County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday that authorities continued their search for...

Last Updated: Monday, 4 July, 2005, 18:36 GMT 19:36 UK   Two missing US troops 'are dead'   The US launched a major hunt for the missing men Two of the three US special forces soldiers missing in eastern Afghanistan for almost a week have been found dead, US government sources tell the BBC.The whereabouts of the other team member remains unclear, while a fourth soldier was found alive on Saturday. The governor of Konar province has spoken of reports that an American is being cared for in a remote village. The US launched a major hunt for the...

Are Amber Deahn and Ashley Smith excellent and calm women who did the right thing under pressure. I think so. The similarity seems interesting. The alert waitress spots missing 8-year-old girl in COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho at a Denny's restaurant around 2 a.m. Saturday. She felt something about the child's face was familiar. Amber Deahn kept the girl occupied until police could arrive at the restaurant. She told ABC News yesterday that one of the things she did to keep the abductor in the restaurant long enough for police to arrive was to read the dessert list ......... very, very slowly....

Troubling Questions Surround Case of Idaho Girl Found After Six WeeksBy Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press Writer Published: Jul 3, 2005 COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A day after missing 8-year-old Shasta Groene turned up with a registered sex offender at a Denny's restaurant in her hometown, investigators struggled with a troubling question: What happened to her 9-year-old brother Dylan? The man with Shasta, Joseph Edward Duncan III, was arrested and charged with kidnapping, but he has requested a lawyer and is refusing to talk to authorities, Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said Sunday. Duncan won't be appointed a...

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 3 - One member of a four-man Navy Seal reconnaissance team has been rescued after his group were reported missing in a mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan last week, a senior Defense Department official said today.

By Mike Weland Eight-year-old Shasta Groene, who has been missing since her mother, brother, and her mother’s boyfriend were bludgeoned to death May 15, is alive and being cared for at Kootenai Medical Center, Coeur d’Alene, after a waitress at a Coeur d’Alene Denny's Restaurant recognized her just shortly before 2 a.m. this morning.Spokane’s KXLY News 4 has been covering the event since shortly after it began unfolding. Joseph E. Duncan III, 42, Fargo, North Dakota, who entered the restaurant with Shasta, is in custody and has been charged with kidnapping. Shasta’s brother, Dylan, 9, was not with the two,...

Dutch Sending Jets to Find Missing Teen By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago Aruba's Attorney General Karin Janssen speaks to the Associated Press in her office in Oranjestad, Aruba, Friday, July 1, 2005, regarding the case of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch) ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Holland will send three F-16 warplanes rigged with search equipment to find Natalee Holloway, Aruban authorities said Saturday, as U.S. lawmakers increased pressure on the Aruban government to do more to find the Alabama teenager nearly five weeks since she disappeared. The three planes, equipped with infrared and sonar-scanning...

FLOYD, IA — A massive search resumed on Saturday for 5-year-old Evelyn Miller. Ten investigators from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation were interviewing anyone connected with the small child, including those living in her apartment building, said Sheriff Rick Lynch. "We need to rule everyone out," he said at noon Saturday. "Right now, we have no clue what happened to her." More than 100 volunteers from all over northeast and north central Iowa searched the corn and soybean fields surrounding the apartment building, located two miles south of Floyd. Search planes and even horses from Osage were being utilized....

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - An 8-year-old girl who disappeared with her brother six weeks ago from a home where family members were bludgeoned to death was spotted early Saturday with a registered sex offender at a Denny's restaurant, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT The girl's 9-year-old brother, Dylan, had not been found, Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said. He said the girl was spotted in her hometown by a waitress who apparently recognized her from photographs displayed in the media. Joseph Edward Duncan III, of from Fargo, N.D., was arrested without incident and charged with kidnapping, Wolfinger said. Duncan was being...

US planes bomb 'Taleban' compound   The US says that precision guided weapons were used American fighter planes have bombed a suspected Taleban hideout in the same area of eastern Afghanistan where US servicemen are missing, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC 25 people had been killed in two air raids on a house in Chechal village. US military spokesman Lt Col Jerry O'Hara told the AP news agency: "We conducted an air strike on a target we deemed we had to hit immediately." He said the target was an "enemy compound" in Kunar province. Lt...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - He'd been so excited about the trip to Yellowstone National Park - camping under the stars, hiking in the mountains, hanging out with his buddies and fellow Boy Scouts. What was supposed to have been a fun trip for 13-year-old Luke Sanburg has turned into a tragic ordeal for his family. Luke was feared drowned Monday, three days after falling into the brisk, fast-moving Yellowstone River and being swept toward a rapid. Yellowstone National Park officials said the focus of the scaled-back search effort had shifted from rescue to body recovery. "I think the family has...

Previous FR Natalee Holloway Threads...Natalee Holloway - Case Discussion Extended Thread 3Posted on 06/23/2005 12:44:51 PM CDT by brigettehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1429067/postsNatalee Holloway - Extended Thread 2Posted on 06/20/2005 12:14:36 AM CDT by brigettehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1426433/postsNatalee Holloway - Extended Thread 1Posted on 06/16/2005 11:43:44 AM CDT by brigettehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1424188/postsAnother Twist in Holloway DisappearancePosted on 06/14/2005 11:24:41 AM CDT by PBRSTREETGANGhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422593/postsAla. Teen's Mom: Men 'Know What Happened' (Natalee Holloway)Posted on 06/13/2005 4:01:55 AM CDT by bd476http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421756/posts Natalee's body found... (false report)Posted on 06/11/2005 1:05:50 PM CDT by kcvl http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1420967/postsHolloway Not Only American Missing In ArubaPosted on 06/08/2005 1:25:36 AM CDT by MassRepublicanFlyersFanhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418606/postsNatalee Holloway (Aruba) 5 Men Now...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (June 26) - Aruban police freed the father of a Dutch suspect arrested in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, the man's wife said, hours after a party boat disc jockey held in the case was ordered released. Anita van der Sloot said the most important thing for her now ''is that my son comes (out) free.'' No immediate comment was available from officials about the release of Paul van der Sloot, 52, a high-ranking justice official who is studying to be a judge on the Dutch Caribbean island. Earlier Sunday, a judge also ordered police to release...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- The mystery of a missing Alabama honors student intensifies, and questions grow more pointed about how Aruban authorities are handling the Dutch Caribbean island's highest-profile case in decades. Why were the young men last seen with 18-year-old Natalee Holloway left free for days after she disappeared May 30, the last day of a five-day high school graduation trip with 124 other students?

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- Dozens of searchers Saturday looked for a 13-year-old Boy Scout who came here with his troop and fell into the fast-moving Yellowstone River. The National Park Service said the search for the boy lost his balance and fell in the water around 6:30 p.m. Friday, and the search included park personnel, about 100 volunteers and a park helicopter. The incident came just days after 11-year-old Scout Brennan Hawkins was found in good condition after spending four days wandering the Utah wilderness. The name of the boy missing in Wyoming was not immediately released. He fell...