Why are there so many "missing people"?

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Ppl dying around famous chef:
"Body of Jamie Oliver apprentice found in garden near his home three months after he went missing

Jamie Oliver pays tribute to 'my friend Kevin Doyle' and says he is 'deeply saddened' by the tragic news
Chef was due to make emotional appeal for missing Kevin, 26, on ITV's This Morning but body was discovered hours later
Kevin was a trainee on Jamie's Kitchen on Channel 4 in 2002
Second trainee chef tragedy to hit Jamie Oliver: Christopher Pethick, 20, found hanged in 2008


One of Jamie Oliver's apprentice chefs has been found dead in a garden close to his home three months after he vanished.

The decomposed remains of Kevin Boyle, 26, were found in Coulsdon, south London, just before the celebrity was due to make a missing person appeal on This Morning on ITV yesterday.

Kevin had cooked for the Prince of Wales, former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Oprah Winfrey after training with the celebrity chef on the Channel 4 series Jamie's Kitchen.

Jamie Oliver said yesterday that he was 'deeply saddened' to learn that his apprentice's body had been found.

The death is being treated as unexplained, although a post-mortem examination is due to take place in Croydon today.

Jamie, 36, said last night: 'I'm deeply saddened by this tragic news. I am proud to have been able to call Kevin a friend for 10 years and he was also a constant supporter of Fifteen and all the apprentices and graduates who came after him through the course.

'I last saw him in September 2011 at the graduation ceremony for the ninth group of apprentices and he was on good form which makes this news even harder to take.

'My thoughts are with his family at this incredibly difficult time.'

He had been due to say on ITV's this morning: 'Kevin's one of life's givers, he's a great lad. If you've seen him please, please get in contact.'

It is believed Kevin may have been dead in the garden for up to three months after he vanished last October. He was last spotted on CCTV at Purley railway station, South London.

After he went missing Jamie Oliver had made a national appeal for information. Family and friends set up a missing person website for the chef who was described as 'depressed'.

Crystal Palace supporter Kevin appeared in the final episodes of Jamie's Kitchen in 2002 after being recruited as one of 15 budding chefs when someone else dropped out.

He beat more than 1,500 competitors to secure his place in the final group set up for unemployed young people.

The chef went on to work at various top restaurants including Fifteen in Shoreditch, London, and most recently Vinocteca in Clerkenwell, London.

He studied at Croydon College and Lancaster University. He was also a regular attender at Purley Baptist Church.

The body was found on Sunday afternoon by a resident living near to the scene.

Kevin's friend Peter Fosdike went on the missing person website that had been set up for him:

'(Kevin) was witty, intelligent and quick to laugh, but also deeply sensitive, compassionate and rebuking of the injustices of this world.

'A world that he helped to change for those around him, the greater loss is to those whose lives he did not touch.'

A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: 'The death is being treated as unexplained at this stage. A post-mortem is due to be held at Croydon mortuary today.

'The deceased is believed to be Kevin Boyle, a 26-year-old man who was reported missing from Purley, however we await formal identification. His next of kin have been informed.'

The chef's family were yesterday too upset to speak about the tragedy.

It is the second tragic death to hit Jamie Oliver's apprentice chefs.

In 2008, Christopher Pethick, 20, was found hanged a few miles from the Fifteen restaurant in Watergate Bay, Cornwall. He dropped out of the course in 2006 after two months with severe depression."

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090982/Kevin-Boyle-Jamie-Oliver-apprentices-body-3-months-went-missing.html

[The Mask]

Sad. Perhaps someone is trying to send a message to Oliver.

[artemis]

Or sacrificed them in order to increase his fame/power/other advantages. In short, the usual stuff.

[The Mask]

^Yes, that could be possible.

[artemis]

"For family of Mass. student, no end to the waiting

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — New Balance running shoes rest on a Boston College floor mat as Luzmila Garcia starts the climb to her son Franco's attic bedroom.

A messy stack of mostly chemistry textbooks is spread across the 21-year-old's desk. Folded T-shirts crowd a laundry basket on the floor.

"He's the kind of boy who doesn't care about material things," says the 50-year-old mother.

But a week after Franco disappeared, his possessions are the few things to which the Boston College junior's parents can cling.

Besides that, there is just hope. Hope that there is some reason their son hasn't come home. Hope that he still will.

When Luzmila and her husband, Jose, woke up Wednesday, they knew time wasn't on their side.

Friends last saw Franco at a Brighton bar in the wee hours of Feb. 22. After band practice, the chemistry major had gone drinking at the popular college hangout Mary Ann's with college friends.

But at closing time, they couldn't find him. A day later, the Garcias returned in a panic from a New York City vacation after they couldn't reach him.

A daylong police search by foot, from the air, and even under water in a reservoir by the college yielded nothing. There was no new activity on Franco's credit card. His 1987 Volvo station wagon was parked where he left it, his clarinet inside.

His cellphone last pinged off a nearby tower around 1:15 a.m. on Feb. 22. Since then, there has been no sign of him. Franco hasn't been home, to his classes, or to his full-time job as a pharmacy technician at CVS.

Standing among her son's belongings, Luzmila toggles between past and present when she speaks of her son a week later.

"He was studying statistics right now," she says, with a nod toward a math book piled among science texts.

Then she looks toward another book in a nook of his bed's headboard, where among titles like "The Great Gatsby" and "The Da Vinci Code" is a thick volume that speaks more to the boy in the 6-foot, 200-pound man.

"He loves Harry Potter," she says.

___

Around 10 a.m., Newton Police Capt. Paul Anastasia calls the Garcias with an update.

State Police are back trawling the depths of Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The body of water is between Cleveland Circle and the campus, where Franco had planned to stay in a friend's dorm the night he disappeared.

His family plans to head to the reservoir soon, including a sister of Luzmila who flew in from Lima, Peru, a day earlier.

More than two decades ago, Luzmila and Jose emigrated from Peru before building a life in the Boston suburbs for their four children. Jose has worked for years as a baker at the same shop. Luzmila has her own little ice cream shop. The family is close, and bears this pain about Franco together.

The evening before, Luzmila went to her 79-year-old mother's home to finally tell her something wasn't right. Family already had cut off many of her TV channels so she couldn't watch news reports about her missing grandson.

But Franco's grandmother had questions — questions his mother couldn't answer.

"Now I'm looking for him," was all Luzmila could say.

___

By 11 a.m. Wednesday, Franco's parents are watching a 19-foot State Police boat cruise the waters by Boston College's stadium.

Motorists who drive by beep to show support as Franco's loved ones hold up missing person posters. Someone who's never met the Garcias hands them coffee and doughnuts. Another stranger gives Luzmila a hug.

"We are desperate," Luzmila tells Anastasia, fearful police may be wrapping up their search.

"We're looking for anything," the police official says. He asks to search the family's home and Franco's parents quickly consent.

State Police Col. Marian McGovern arrives at the scene as a snowfall intensifies.

"I'm going to do everything we can to get your son home," she tells Luzmila.

A little later, authorities announce they're calling off the day's search because of bad weather. But they say they'll be back at the reservoir Friday, and Franco's family draws strength from the news.

Like them, detectives haven't given up.

___

Back home around 2 p.m., a letter waits for Franco's mother.

It is from a stranger who writes in Spanish that she has asked God for Franco's safe return.

Baskets of food also keep showing up on the front porch for a family that barely can think of eating. Jose says the plan for the evening is to get a group together to say the Rosary.

"It's hard for her when it grows dark, when a new day without her son is coming," Jose says of his wife. "But prayer in her heart makes it easier."

Before long, the Garcias' 12-year-old son, Alejandro, arrives home from school. Scrolling on his iPod touch, Alejandro discovers Bruce Springsteen has put Franco's missing-person poster on his Facebook page and Twitter feed.

Franco's friends from Boston College's Symphonic Band made it happen by getting in touch with Springsteen's son, a Boston College senior.

"That's pretty good, because there's more than 2 million people following him," the boy says.

Before long, the Garcias' 9-year-old daughter Bella returns home, too. Her mother traps her in a hug the fourth-grader knows means more on a day like this.

Then the family turns their thoughts to planning a church service and a vigil for later in the week. They also arrange to meet with a private investigator who has offered his services for free.

Tears roll down Luzmila's cheeks as she wonders whom she can trust as this ordeal continues. But friend Genoveva Tavera tells the mother she must stay positive.

"Breathe in. Breathe out," she says. "...We cannot waste our energy thinking bad about other people."

Soon, the investigator arrives and Luzmila starts to speak again about how her son vanished.

She starts the story at the beginning, hoping it all will soon end."

[artemis]

"Mother of missing Toronto girl gets call from police after body found

TORONTO - The mother of missing Toronto girl Mariam Makhniashvili says she's been contacted by police after a body was found in the city.

Lela Tabidze says she had a short conversation with police to warn her that she "might get some news."

She added that police urged her, "not to get too upset, and wait for the results" of forensic tests.

Human remains were found in a wooded area near Yonge Street and the 401 and police are on the scene with a forensics team.

Mariam Makhniashvili was 17 when she disappeared after arriving at Forest Hill Collegiate on Sept. 14, 2009.

The only solid clue was the discovery of her backpack and some school books in a parking lot the following month.

The Makhniashvili family, originally from the Republic of Georgia, had only been in Toronto for three months when their daughter disappeared.

The parents lived in Los Angeles for five years before moving to Toronto, while Mariam and her brother lived with their grandparents in Georgia.

Her father, Vakhtang Makhniashvili, pleaded guilty last year to three counts of aggravated assault and was sentenced to six years in prison.

The charges followed two separate stabbing incidents, one involving a neighbour and the other a couple who had posted his bail."

[artemis]

"Police pull body from canal in search for missing former Eastenders actress

Fears are growing for the safety of a former EastEnders actress who went missing last week, after a body was pulled from a canal yesterday.

Police searching for 29-year-old Gemma McCluskie have so far established no link to the find.

A Metropolitan spokesman said: 'A body was found in Regents Canal near Broadway Market in East London at 2:40pm.

'Enquiries are underway to establish the identity of the deceased. A post-mortem will be scheduled to ascertain the cause of death.

'Pending that post mortem we will be treating the death as unexplained.'

Friends and relatives of Miss McCluskie have launched a frantic search around London’s East End for the petite brunette, who appeared in more than 30 episodes of the flagship BBC soap as Kerry Skinner in 2001.

Now former EastEnders stars including Martine McCutcheon and Brooke Kinsella have begun assisting the search on Twitter.

More than 100 people carried out a search around the local area, placing posters in shops and pubs and handing out leaflets last night, after Miss McCluskie was last seen at her home in Bethnal Green last Thursday.

Her 33-year-old brother Danny said: 'We are all going out of our mind with worry.

'Her phone has been switched off since Thursday afternoon. We’ve not heard from her.'

Police said they were 'increasingly concerned' for Ms McCluskie’s welfare.

Ms Kinsella tweeted: 'Please get in touch if you have seen her.'

Her other brother Tony said her disappearance is 'completely' out of character and that she had never been missing before.

He added: 'We are going out of our mind with worry. She is a bubbly, outgoing, strong and independent woman.'

Mr McCluskie said he last saw his sister at home last Thursday afternoon.

She was wearing blue leggings, Ugg boots and large sunglasses, he added. She is also believed to have had her small Louis Vuitton handbag with her.

Detective Inspector Des McHugh, from Tower Hamlets borough, said: 'We are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of Gemma McCluskie who went missing from her home in Bethnal Green on Thursday March 1.

'Officers and her family are conducting inquires to trace her whereabouts, but so far without success.

'Her disappearance without being in contact with her family or friends is out of character.

'Gemma, 29, is well-known locally as she appeared in episodes of EastEnders during 2001.

'She is described as 5ft 1ins with straight black hair. At the time she went missing, she was wearing a cream-coloured top, blue leggings, and sandy coloured Ugg boots.' "

[artemis]

"Missing Michigan Family: Couple With 4-Month-Old Baby Disappear

Authorities and family members are searching for clues in the disappearance of a Michigan couple and their child.

Timothy Medsker, 33, and Sabrina Medsker, 34, vanished with their 4-month-old son Joshua without any warning. They were last seen at a birthday party for their niece and their last phone call was placed on Feb. 16.

The young couple has a successful cleaning business with strong ties to the small Michigan town of Petoskey.

Despite attempts to track them down the family and police haven't heard from them at all. "This is 100 percent out of character and very concerning," said Kelly Manthei, Timothy Medsker's sister.

Police searched the home a second time this week and took computers and personal papers to for clues about what happened to the family but so far there have been no leads.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. They even talked about attending a baby shower this weekend.

"All of their personal belongings were there including clothing, computers, food, paperwork – it looked like something spooked them," said Petoskey Detective David Schultz.

Police said right now there's no reason to suspect foul play.

"Anytime we have a missing person or someone who can't be contacted usually in a small town like this a few phone calls and we know where there at, but obviously now almost going on three weeks this is not the case," said Schultz.

The family worries that there's something more to this story.

Police believe they left by choice and likely traveling in their silver 2010 Ford f-150 pickup.

Timothy Medsker's mother Laura Medsker, offered this message if the couple is watching.

"We are so worried about you and Sabrina and Joshua we love you. Please just let somebody know that you're ok," she said."

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'Tortured, drugged and assaulted': Mother reveals terrifying ordeal of small-town girl who went to Hollywood and 'fell into clutches of sex offender'

*Satara Stratton, 24, moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream
*Mother said she has been held captive since November by sex offender
*After media and Facebook campaign she has been found safe in hospital
*Mug shots document Satara's life spiralling out of control in recent years

The mother of the small-town girl who had dreams of becoming a Hollywood actress was today driving across the country to be reunited with her daughter after she was found alive following four months of being 'tortured and drugged by a registered sex offender'.

Sharon Stratton, from Tennessee, will be reunited with her daughter Satara later today at an undisclosed Los Angeles hospital where she is heavily sedated and being treated for a number of injuries.

After frantically searching for her since November, Ms Stratton spoke to the MailOnline about the 'nightmare' she has lived through and the horrific ordeal her daughter endured at the hands of 'monsters'.

She said: 'That man destroyed my little girl. He held her captive for more than four months in a place where she could not escape from.

'He drugged her, tortured her, attacked her and who knows what else. I'm trying to get to Satara as fast as I can, I have been driving since 6pm yesterday.

'She needs to be with her family and we need to get her healthy and back to normal and give her time to recover from the nightmare she has been through.'

Satara Stratton's disappearance garnered national attention several weeks ago when it was reported the pretty 24-year-old had gone from aspiring Hollywood actress to heroin addict who had been swept up in the city's seedy underworld.

A picture of her looking healthy and happy appeared alongside her drug-ravaged mugshot which highlighted the shocking transformation she had gone through in just eight months.

Los Angeles police announced yesterday she had been located in 'good condition' at an unspecified hospital.

Ms Stratton, who is a university professor, said it was the registered sex offender who had kidnapped her daughter who left her at the hospital after increasing pressure from police. He fled soon after and is thought to be still on the run.

Satara, whose screen name was Satara Silver, is now being held in a secure place until he is found. She is being treated for some external injuries and bruising over her body. She is also suffering withdrawal symptoms from the drugs she was injected with.

Over the last eight months, police have arrested Satara on several occasions, with her mugshots documenting how her life had spiraled out of control. Arrests have included possession of narcotics in a hospital.

Police are now believed to be looking for the sex offender whose offenses are listed as attempted lewd and lascivious conduct with a child under 14 and attempted forced oral copulation with a minor under 14.

Her mother revealed that prior to this, Satara was a normal, happy and quiet young girl who loved dancing and soccer.

She had been acting since she was three-years-old and enjoyed early success in a handful of films, including a horror flick called Cult Movie.

It was when she was working in New York that she was advised to move to LA as she had dreams of also becoming a film director.

Determined to make a success of her new life, the petite blonde began taking classes and started a job at the Disney Store on Santa Monica Boulevard.

But it was short lived, as she was robbed outside a bank and hospitalised, causing her to miss a semester of school, her mother told the Los Angeles Times last month.

She added that her daughter's troubles worsened when a fellow employee began extorting money from her and harassing her.

Speaking today, Ms Stratton said she believes the employee may have been working with the sex offender as the two were friends.

'I don't know what their motive was or if it was a money thing,' she said. 'But my daughter is very petite and young looking and I believe one of the men is a registered pedophile, so perhaps that was why he went after her.

'She was very vulnerable. They singled her out and preyed on her. My daughter never touched hard drugs in her life. She was always a very demure and quiet girl.'

The university professor said she is just glad Satara is still alive after a threatening email was sent to Satara's boyfriend last month saying he was going to kill both her and her mother.

'I spent two weeks in LA looking for her after that. I got no help from police who warned me victims aren't usually found alive after three months missing,' she said.

'It was only when I made a plea on Facebook and then the media got hold of it that the police really started to investigate her disappearance.'

Police had considered her 'voluntarily missing' - but her mother refused to believe it, saying that Satara was always in touch regularly.

The last time Sharon spoke to her daughter before she was located was in November to arrange for Satara to see her grandmother before she died.

Satara’s grandmother, with whom she was close, died in January and 'she would never have missed that', Sharon told the LA Times.

Though Ms Stratton doesn't know the full details of what her daughter went through, she believes her daughter was stalked before being 'grabbed' after being offered a ride home.

It will likely be a while before her daughter can even talk about what happened, she said.

'I want to get my daughter back and give her the love and care she needs. The last four months have been a nightmare, I haven't been able to sleep or eat or work or even think.

'Once she is back to normal, I know Satara will go back to pursuing her dream. She will not give that up just because of what that man did to her.

She later posted a message calling for help on Facebook, writing that her daughter 'has health issues risk to life, and previous torture by this man lead to suicidal ideas, and he forced drugs'.

Authorities have never divulged the nature of her health issues.

On her Facebook page, the concerned mother wrote: 'Satara is not voluntarily missing; she has had no contact with not only family but friends throughout this occurrence.'

She added: 'On the surface, she’s an adult and can do whatever she wants.

'But you start digging below the surface and you find these connections and you can’t ignore these connections. So where is she?' "




Career: Satara (right) has appeared in several films, including the 2010 movie Fairer Blood, pictured

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2115840/Satara-Stratton-safe-Small-town-girl-moved-Hollywood-actress-heroin-addict-okay.html

[artemis]

"Boy, 3, Disappears From Arkansas Scout Camp

Rescue crews are searching for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from a Boy Scout camp in northeastern Arkansas.

Arkansas State Police say Caleb Linn has not been seen since Saturday morning.

Police say Caleb was among 11 children working on a cleanup project at a bridge near the Kia Kima Boy Scout Camp in Fulton County. They say five of the boys left the bridge to return to the main camp a half mile away late Saturday morning, and Caleb asked if he could catch up with the older kids.

He hasn't been seen since.

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office says state police, local law enforcement and volunteers are scouring the area near the Missouri border and that a helicopter will join the search for Caleb on Monday."

[artemis]

"Elderly nun accused of baby snatching as part of Spanish hospitals trafficking ring

An elderly Spanish nun was in court today to face charges of stealing babies, after hundreds of women claimed their babies were taken from them at birth and given away in illegal adoptions.

Doctors, nurses and religious workers at several clinics and hospitals in Spain are alleged to have sold babies for adoption over decades after telling new mothers that their infants had died.

Alleged victims say they need help from authorities in unearthing evidence of their claims from graveyards and public registries.

At the hearing at Madrid's Superior Tribunal of Justice, 80-year-old Maria Gomez Valbuena, a Sisters of Charity nun who worked in the Santa Cristina hospital in Madrid, was questioned by a judge but she invoked her right not to testify.

The formal charges against her are illegal detention and falsifying documents in a case dating from the early 1980s.

Many of the mothers have said they believe their babies were taken because they may have seen them as unfit mothers because they were young, poor or unmarried.

Valbuena has been linked to some 3,000 claims of kidnapping by families, with most of the abductions starting during the Franco dictatorship and continuing into the 1990s.

One mother testified in court last week that Gomez Valbuena had told her she could be jailed for adultery. The nun threatened to take her baby away and give it to another family, and later said the baby had died.

The mother, Maria Luisa Torres, has been able to prove through DNA tests the baby she was told had died 30 years ago is alive after being adopted by another family.

An association of parents and families, Anadir, has presented more than 900 lawsuits regarding allegations of child-stealing. Most have been thrown out due to lack of evidence.

Members of Anadir say they were told by health or religious workers their babies had died at birth or shortly after.

Many say they were neither shown a body nor given proper death certificates.

Outside the court people who believe they are victims of the alleged baby-snatching scandal shouted 'shameful' as Sister Maria was escorted to her car.

Maria Paloma Perez Calleja who believes she was taken from her biological parents spoke to the media outside.

She said: 'I don't know who I am. I am registered as their biological daughter, as if I was born in their home. Everything was well planned, through out, and to top it off they are being protected.'

Anadir says the practice began in the 1940s when, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the fascist government stole babies from political prisoners from the defeated Republican side.

In subsequent decades it became a money-making racket, the victims claim. Parents who wanted to adopt babies were often referred to clinics that were known for finding babies for desperate families, they say.

Coinciding with Sister Maria's court appearance, the Ministry of Justice held a meeting with members of various associations of victims of illegal trafficking of children.

The ministry said it will gather the facts about all of the different claims to be able to investigate them more systematically, and will also handle the results of DNA tests.

Outside the court, Eduardo Rayo Retamero, president of the Association of Stolen Children in Democracy, who is still looking for his daughter, said that if Gomez Valbuena committed the crime she is accused of, she should be excommunicated.

'I have already said it and I'm not ashamed. I'm a practising Catholic but, if this woman has done what she is alleged to have done, then, there should be no Judas in Church, every Judas in the Church should be excommunicated,' he said.

Many families have found it impossible to track down babies they believe would now be adults, since the birth records, death certificates and adoption papers were falsified, according to Anadir and to the Madrid prosecutor.

Isabel Aguera is still looking for her sister.

Her mother, she says, was told the baby had died and had subsequently been buried.

'They never asked permission from my family to carry out this burial so my mum, over the years, starts saying she thinks her baby didn't die, that she is alive.

'Since she repeated it so much I decided to investigate so I went to the cemetery and asked where my sister was buried and I was told she wasn't buried in any cemetery in Malaga,' she said outside the Ministry of Justice.

For Jose Antonio Suarez Martinez, Spain's legal system has given him little hope in finding his child.

'I have very little faith in justice. They have made me lose faith, unfortunately that is the way it is. I can't have more faith,' he said."

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128929/Elderly-nun-accused-baby-snatching-Spanish-hospitals-trafficking-ring.html

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" 'I got chills when I saw it was me': Man, 35, discovers he was kidnapped by mother as a baby while searching missing persons website

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130563/Steve-Carter-35-discovers-kidnapped-mother-baby-searching-online.html?ITO=1490

[artemis]

"Etan Patz case reopened

The six-year-old boy who went missing from the Soho area of New York City in 1979 is back in the news. Police and the FBI are investigating a possible lead into the 33-year-old case of Etan Patz, the first missing child to appear on the side of a milk carton.

The child disappeared on the way to school on the morning of May 25, 1979. It was the first time he was allowed to walk the two blocks to the bus stop alone.

A tip apparently has led officials to the basement of a building on the corner of Prince and Wooster streets, about a block and a half from where Etan had lived with his family.

The name Etan Patz has become a trending topic on Twitter as people weigh in on the case. Shirley Brady noted: "As mom to a 6 y.o. in Soho, it's still held out by locals as cautionary tale." Another wrote, "Boy who disappeared on his way to school in 1979 has been REOPENED! Crazy." One wondered, "Why is fbi and nypd searchin for a kid that disappeared in 1979?"

Good question. This is a case that Stuart GraBois, as an assistant U.S. attorney under Rudolph Giuliani, pursued for years. It became the most famous missing-person case in New York City, prompting a nationwide spotlight on missing children, and generated headlines around the globe. No one was ever convicted of the crime.

The case led to the creation of National Missing Children's Day, marked on May 25, the day the blond-haired, blue-eyed child went missing.

The case has even pointed to a suspect, convicted child molester Julio Antonio Ramos, who is currently in prison. Patz's babysitter had been dating the man, and Ramos did know the kid, but has denied abducting him.

Apparently, new evidence in the case suggests another suspect who lived in the apartment at the time: a local handyman named Othniel Miller, who gave Etan $1 for helping him the night before the disappearance.

The man's name had come up in an earlier investigation, but he was a friend of the Patz family, and the NYPD did not follow the lead.

Investigators plan to be at the site, 127 B Prince St., which is now a Lucky Brand jeans store, for the next two to three days to search for human remains. The Associated Press reports that the excavation has been the result of a recently ordered review of the case by Manhattan's district attorney."

news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/etan-patz-case-opened-181030534.html

[lucy]

Interesting that the case is "33" years old....a common Masonic number....

Why make such a big deal about digging in a basement UNLESS they FOUND the body...not just hype that they are digging hoping to find his body...

See what I mean by media mind games? They show this attention on all cable networks...why not break the news when they find the body, rather than spending how many hours of talking head programs like Nancy Grace, Jane Velez-Mitchell....etc.....

This is what is most annoying, break in the story when the body is found, not hours/days/weeks that it seems to take to dig up and tell the story ?

[artemis]

The case of this little boy turned me upside down, its all I can say.