Family's Ordeal Ends as Missing Son Comes Home

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For a change a good news story:
Family's Ordeal Ends as Missing Son Comes Home

By Kari Lydersen and Peter Slevin

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, January 14, 2007; Page A01


KIRKWOOD, Mo., Jan. 13 -- Somehow, after all the dashed hopes and dead ends, after four years of fruitlessly searching forests and mine shafts and Internet bulletin boards, Craig and Pam Akers still expected they would hear news of their kidnapped son.
They just never expected the news would be this good.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...011300211.html
In plain sight, but missing
Neighbors wonder why a boy remained with his alleged abductor for years despite seemingly having freedom to flee.
By Nicholas Riccardi, Times Staff Writer
January 14, 2007
KIRKWOOD, MO. — Like father, like son, figured Michael Devlin's neighbors when they saw the bulky 41-year-old and the black-haired 15-year-old boy who lived with him........
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...ck=1&cset=true
Updated:2007-01-14 07:33:24
Missouri Boys Found, But Questions Remain

By BETSY TAYLOR
AP
KIRKWOOD, Mo. (Jan. 14) - The safe return of two kidnapped boys - one missing for four days, the other for four years - is being heralded as nothing short of a miracle by their families.



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