Boy Scout missing since Monday; other boy who vanished in 2002 both found alive!

[kevolution]

From xbox360fanboy.com

Looks like anyone playing 360 up until January could have been playing with the kidnapper or the kids.

Kidnapper had Live, posted image of victim
Posted Jan 15th 2007 1:30PM by Richard Mitchell


Some of our readers may have heard of the recent recovery of two kidnapped boys in Missouri. As the story goes, Ben Ownby, 13 (missing since last week) and Shawn Hornbeck, 15 (missing since October 2002) were found in the apartment home of one Michael Devlin, 41. The safe return of these two boys to their families is certainly cause for celebration, but the story goes further than that. Gamertag Radio has the full story: Devlin is a member of Xbox Live. While this is nothing extraordinary in and of itself, one of Devlin's acts is strange to say the least. On the website Gamertagpics.com, Devlin -- under his Gamertag, DevilDevlin -- posted a photograph of Hornbeck taken during his captivity. Devlin was online playing Saints Row as recently as January 13.

Oddly, Hornbeck had many opportunities to escape, as he was allowed to ride a bicycle and was often seen playing video games with the apartment door open (Hornbeck also found the time to pierce both his ear and tongue). The behavior seems strange, though psychologists are quick to point out that victims of kidnap often revert into a "survival mode" in order to cope. Whatever the motives of Devlin, we're glad to report the boys' safe return.

 

[chiefwahoo]

This whole story is strange. I just read this today:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/15/missouri.boys/index.html

Questions about what Shawn believed deepened Monday.

Web sites that track crime posted links to Internet profiles that someone placed online using the last name Devlin -- an indication that Shawn may have had Internet access.

On December 1, 2005, someone identifying himself as Shawn Devlin of Kirkwood posted a message on a Web site that Shawn's parents had set up, www.shawnhornbeck.com.

It read, "how long are you planing (sic) to look for your son?" Later that day the same person apparently posted a new message apologizing for the previous one and asking if it would be OK to write a poem for Shawn Hornbeck.

 

[James]

its all so wierd....we got so many wierd people in society...

 

[Mandingo]

According to a report in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, 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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245224,00.html