Taskforce Needs Publics Help

With the recent new article : http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/17062036.htm

"Soon after Devlin's arrest, prosecutors and investigators from Washington, Franklin, St. Louis and Lincoln counties, along with the FBI, the Highway Patrol and Kirkwood and St. Charles police, formed a task force to investigate Devlin's possible involvement in other unsolved cases."

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"We just have to be real careful, and we're still looking at all these cases," Nothum said. "They're still active and open."

Investigators have previously confirmed they were checking for potential connections between Devlin and at least four cases in Missouri, one in Illinois and one in Minnesota, cases that date to the late 1980s. Until his arrest in January, Devlin had no criminal record.

Cases under investigation include those of:

_Charles "Arlin" Henderson, then 11, who disappeared in 1991 while riding his bike on a rural road in Moscow Mills, about an hour's drive from St. Louis.

_Scott Allen Kleeschulte, who was 9 when he disappeared while riding his bike near his home in St. Charles, during a thunderstorm in June 1988.

_Bianca Noel Piper, a 13-year-old who disappeared after taking an evening walk last March near her home in Foley.

_Angie Marie Housman, abducted at age 9 in November 1993 while walking near her St. Louis County home and found dead nine days later by hunters in St. Charles County.

_Dalton Mesarchik, a 7-year-old kidnapped in March 2003 from his front lawn in Streator, Ill., and found dead the next day on the banks of the Vermilion River.

_Jacob Wetterling, 11, who was abducted by an armed man in St. Joseph, Minn., in October 1989 while riding his bike with several friends.

Arlin's mother, Debra Henderson, said she was guarding against getting her hopes up that the case could be solved. "I've done that too much, and then afterward I get sick," Henderson said.

The similarties between Shawn Hornbecks case and these others is very scary, lets look at Steven Kraft:

On February 15, 2001, a boy named Steven Kraft, 12, went missing from a town on Lake Michigan, not far from where a man with the same name as Devlin's father owns property.

Steven is the same size and fits the general description of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby, the two boys Devlin is known to have abducted.

Steven went missing on Valentine's weekend 2001.

On the Federal charge against Devlin, he took Shawn to Illinois for Valentine's weekend 2003. Coincedence??

We know from Brian Devlin about the family vacations around Lake Michigan.

A property search showed that a man with the same name as Devlin's father owns a home in southwestern Michigan, right near the lake. It's not a wildly uncommon name.

A lot of people rent cottages instead of own them, and they mostly do so when their kids are younger, so it was iffy, maybe a long shot, but it was something. It was something to note, because the town where the Devlins may have property is close. Only twenty miles away, in fact.

It is close to Benton Harbor, where on February 15, 2001 a boy named Steven Kraft, 12, went out in the early evening to play with his family's two dogs; his dogs came home, but Steven, known as Stevie, was never heard from again. He know that Devlin scouted for victims not far from his home.

Now comparing their looks side by side, they are very similar in apperance, so Devlin is very likely a suspect given his AOA, or Age of Attraction, and the fact that Ben and Shawn were similar in age and look.

We have now set up a page detailing all the SEVEN suspected cases being used in the connections to Devlin.It details all the abductions with pictures and age-progressed ones for those still missing.Also includes annotated maps of the areas covered.And a link to the discussions boards.More will be added later.But now its up to others to look through the info and add to it. The task force seem to want the public's help so this is everyones chance to help.Please sign up to the boards and add your comments.

Any info - no matter how small is important.That one tiny piece of info may help to solve a crime. You never know. I'm sure Mitch Hults didn't expect to solve two crimes in one day with his tip - did he?

Anyway the page is off the main Shawn Case Page

at :http://www.operationcybertip.org/shawnhornbeck.html

or directly at :http://www.operationcybertip.org/task_force.html