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  • MICHAEL DEVLIN: Suspect is called 'kind of a plain guy'

    01/13/2007 5:58:32 PM PST · by valkyrieanne · 31 replies · 4,886+ views
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 1/13/2007 | Jeremy Kohler
    'There was no inkling that something like this would ever be linked with him,' a funeral chapel co-worker says. He was a private man who kept to himself. He paid the rent on time. He stayed out of trouble. He won his employer's respect, even getting a referral for a second job. Michael J. Devlin, 41, was never a suspect in the disappearance of Shawn Hornbeck four years ago, even though the boy lived in his Kirkwood apartment in full view of neighbors. And yet, it appeared Friday that the unassuming Devlin had pulled an unbelievable con — hiding in...
  • Hornbeck, Owenby Families hold press conferences

    01/13/2007 5:39:56 PM PST · by valkyrieanne · 11 replies · 1,227+ views
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 1/13/07 | Staff Reporters
    Neither Shawn Hornbeck or William "Ben" Ownby were allowed Saturday to publicly discuss the ordeal that ended with their recovery Friday and the arrest of the 41-year-old pizza parlor manager charged with holding them in a Kirkwood apartment. But the relief expressed by the families of both boys at separate press conferences Saturday morning let the world know that the future is now and that they are willing to let the past take care of itself. "I feel like I'm in a dream," said Shawn's mother, Pam Akers, who until Friday last saw her son on Oct. 6, 2002 when...