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Police Find Missing Missouri Boy, Make Unbelievable Discovery at Apartment
A serendipitous turn of events on Friday led to a pair of Missouri parents being reunited with their kidnapped sons. Kirkwood, Mo. police officers had been serving a warrant when they noticed a white truck matching the description of a vehicle thought to be involved in Monday’s disappearance of 13-year-old Ben Ownby of Beaufort, Mo.
After determining the whereabouts of the truck’s owner, police entered the apartment and found Ownby. Ecstatic that they had located the missing teen police were blown away by what they discovered next. Along with Ownby in the apartment was Shawn Hornbeck, a 15-year-old boy who had been kidnapped four-and-a-half years ago.
Police arrested Michael Devlin, the 41-year-old man who had been living at the apartment. Devlin was charged with first-degree kidnapping and being held on $1 million bond.
Ownby had disappeared shortly after stepping off his school bus on Monday. It was another boy who had been with Ownby that noticed a white truck speeding away from the area Ben had been walking towards. After his disappearance volunteers and police scoured the area looking for the missing boy.
It was the description of the white truck that led to Ownby’s discovery and ultimately the end of a 4 ½ year search for Hornbeck.
The 15-year-old went for a bike ride when he was 11 and never returned. His parents, never giving up hope, spent the past four years searching for their son and devoting their life to locating missing children.
Both boys wee reunited with their parents on Friday evening.
