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Illinois Boy could be Missing NC Child
« on: Apr 29^th, 2003, 10:15am »

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A little boy found in Illinois could be a child who was abducted in NC in October of 2000. DNA tests are being done, though the child looks like the boy and x-rays show the same healed fractures in his leg as the missing boy.

How wonderful - this missing child might be going home! Cool

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/119/nation/Boy_found_in_Illinois_could_b e:.shtml

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Re: Illinois Boy could be Missing NC Child
« Reply #1 on: Apr 29^th, 2003, 10:33am »

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Wow, I'll be watching to see how this one turns out.

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« Reply #2 on: Apr 29^th, 2003, 10:36am »

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Here's another article about it with some additional info:

ROSEBORO, North Carolina (CNN) -- The family of a North Carolina boy who has been missing more than two years said they were hoping Tuesday that DNA testing will match a child found about three months ago in Illinois.

Tristen "Buddy" Myers was 4 years old when he walked away from his great-aunt and great-uncle's home in Roseboro, east of Fayetteville, in October 2000.

The DNA tests, conducted Monday on the boy in Evanston, Illinois, typically take four to six weeks, authorities said. Meanwhile, the Evanston boy remains in a foster home pending the results.

"One day's too long for me," said Donna Myers, Buddy's aunt. "I'd like to know now."

On February 3, a man walked into an Evanston hospital with a boy who he said was his son. The man said he wanted the boy evaluated for "aggressive behavior," said Jill Manuel of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Hospital workers saw that the boy, between 6 and 8 years old, was dirty and "obviously had not bathed or changed clothes in days," Manuel said. The man also threatened to leave the boy at the hospital, prompting workers to report the situation to a Department of Children and Family Services hotline.

Police were called and discovered a warrant was out for the man's arrest on a retail theft charge. He was taken into custody, and the boy was placed in a foster home, Manuel said.

Social workers soon found the boy could not name family members or give his birth date. The alleged father had given the boy's name as Eli Quick, but there were no records under that name, Manuel said.

"Our suspicion was all may not be as it should be," she said.

The social workers then called the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which matched up the boy's photograph with a picture of Buddy, who would now be 6.

"The family has seen the pictures of this child in question," said Jackie Cox, a spokeswoman for the boy's great-aunt and great-uncle. "It's such a strong resemblance."

Cox said a DNA test was conducted on Buddy's birth mother two weeks ago, and the Evanston boy's DNA was tested Monday.

"We're just sitting back, waiting for the DNA of this child," Cox said.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Web site, Buddy has blond hair and blue eyes, with a scar on the side of his neck. Cox said he has a speech impediment, causing him to have difficulty pronouncing certain words.

Investigators said the boy found in Evanston shares facial features and scars with Buddy and has a speech impediment.

"If it's not him, he's got a twin," Buddy's aunt said.

In the meantime, the alleged father was released from custody and has vanished, Manuel said.

"We have never been able to question him again," she said.

She said it does not appear the man has a history of any crimes involving children.

Buddy's mother was a juvenile when she gave birth, which made her ineligible for custody, Cox said. The mother's parents took custody of Buddy but had to give him up when the grandmother became terminally ill.

The grandparents gave Buddy to the grandfather's brother and sister-in-law, John and Donna Myers, who were in the process of formally adopting the boy when he went missing, Cox said.

She said Donna Myers and Buddy came home one afternoon and watched a "Barney" tape when the boy walked off.

"Tristen kind of fell asleep, and she took a short nap," Cox said. "When she awakened, he was gone."

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Re: Illinois Boy could be Missing NC Child
« Reply #3 on: May 1^st, 2003, 9:10am »

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FBI tests don't ID abandoned boy
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 Posted: 7:51 PM EDT (2351 GMT)

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- The FBI said Wednesday that comparison tests to determine whether a boy recently abandoned in Chicago is the same child who disappeared from North Carolina more than two years ago were inconclusive.

FBI agent Ross Rice said that means the agency must now wait for the results of DNA tests to determine whether the boys are the same person. An official said they expect those results "by the end of the week."

"Everything that we tried -- family interviews, medical records, birth records ... has come back inconclusive," Rice said. Earlier, Rice said the FBI was comparing dental impressions, fingerprints and blood samples.

State and local investigators have already taken DNA samples from the boy in Chicago -- whom officials said appears to be between 6 and 8 years old -- and the missing boy's birth mother to prove whether they are related.

It could take six weeks to determine whether the boy known as Eli Quick is really Tristen "Buddy" Myers.

Buddy's family has been anxiously waiting for the DNA test results.

"I'm just praying this is him," said Donna Myers, Buddy's great-aunt. His room has remained intact since he vanished. A blue spread with pictures of bulldozers and dump trucks covers his bed.

Buddy disappeared October 5, 2000, from his great-aunt's home in Roseboro, North Carolina, where she and the child had napped in the same room after a doctor's visit, Myers said.

But while his great-aunt continued to sleep, Buddy left the house with his dogs, three-legged Buck and a Doberman puppy, Sasha. Buck returned five days later and Sasha five days after that.

Raven Myers says the boy in Chicago looks like her son.
If the boy in Chicago is Buddy Myers, his estranged mother wants him back and will go to court to seek custody.

Raven Myers, a 22-year-old topless dancer, had joint custody of Buddy after giving birth to him in Louisiana at age 15. After Raven Myers' mother became terminally ill, Buddy was taken to live with his great-aunt and great-uncle in Roseboro.

"I want him to have the kind of relationship he needs to have with his momma, which is me," Raven Myers said. She has custody of a daughter age 1 1/2.

On Tuesday, FBI agents picked up Ricky Quick, the 33-year-old man who abandoned the 6-year-old at an Evanston, Illinois, hospital in February.

Agents found Quick at the Chicago home he shares with his mother and took him to their headquarters for questioning. The FBI said Quick went with the agents voluntarily and was not in custody.

Quick said Wednesday he has not been charged. He said the boy identified as Eli Quick is his stepson.

"I'm very sick," he said. "I've been through a lot. I'm trying to get things together," he said in a television interview.

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Quick told Evanston hospital workers when he brought the boy in that he wanted Eli evaluated for "aggressive behavior," said Jill Manuel of the Illinois Department of Family and Children's Services.

Hospital workers saw the boy was extremely dirty and needed a change of clothes, Manuel said. Quick threatened to leave Eli at the hospital, prompting workers to report him.

Ricky Quick says he is "trying to get things together."
Chicago authorities arrested Quick on an outstanding theft warrant, but he was later released and never came back for the boy.

Eli told social workers in Chicago that his mother, Sharon Smith, died in a car wreck in Colorado last year, and Colorado state troopers Tuesday identified the interstate wreck he apparently was referring to.

Master Trooper Ron Watkins said his agency got in touch with Chicago authorities after seeing Eli's face on a television news report.

Colorado State Police records show a woman named Sharon Smith died when her car overturned on Interstate 76 in northeast Colorado last May.

Also in the car were Ricky Quick, Eli, and three young girls. Watkins said troopers assumed they were a family. Ricky Quick said Wednesday the couple had been married 17 years and that Eli is his stepson. He said his wife had an extra-marital affair which produced Eli.

Eli was the most seriously injured of the survivors, Watkins said. He spent three days recovering at Denver Health Hospital before Ricky Quick signed him out.

An official with the Washington County (Colorado) coroner's office said he remembers Ricky Quick as evasive during questioning after the accident.

Quick also said his first name was Ricky and, later, Tony, prompting law enforcement officials to call in the Colorado Bureau of Investigation about identities of the four children, but the CBI closed the investigation soon after.

The Colorado accident case remained closed until this week, when the apparent connection prompted troopers to reopen it, Watkins said.

After Ricky Quick was arrested in Chicago, Eli went into foster care. He was unable to tell social workers his birthday or much information about his family.

Social workers contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and found Eli bears a strong resemblance to Buddy Myers.

Waiting and hoping
Donna Myers has seen photographs of Eli and said he looks like her nephew.

"If it's not him, he's got a twin," she said. "His eyes are the same, his ears, the scar on the side of his neck, his mouth -- everything seems to be pointing that it's him."

Buddy's mother was a juvenile when she gave birth in Louisiana, which made her ineligible for custody under state law, a spokeswoman for the Myers family said.

She believes Eli is her son.

Raven Myers, so-named because her mother was a fan of Edgar Allen Poe, said she has never met Ricky Quick.

"I've never met him. I've never seen this man, except on TV last night," Myers said. "I would remember a face like that, and I don't remember him."

Raven Myers' parents took custody of Buddy but had to give him up when the grandmother became terminally ill.

The grandparents gave Buddy to the grandfather's brother and sister-in-law, John and Donna Myers, who were in the process of formally adopting the boy when he was last seen, the spokeswoman said.

Raven Myers said she was questioned after Buddy disappeared and took a lie detector test to prove she had nothing to do with her son's disappearance.

She said she and her aunt and uncle, Donna and John Myers, are not on good terms.

"I have nothing bad to say about them," she said Wednesday. "I know they care about him, but I will fight for Tristen not to go back in that home."

Donna Myers said the day the boy disappeared started with a trip to the doctor's office.

Afterward, she and Buddy came home and sang along to a Barney tape before the boy feel asleep on the floor as he played with the professional wrestling action figures his aunt had recently bought him, Myers said.

Myers said she fell asleep in the same room. When she awoke, Buddy was gone. Myers said she checked to see if Buddy had gone up the road to look at some horses he loved. When she didn't find him there, Myers called 911, she said.

John Myers kept a picture of Buddy on his truck until recently. He switched trucks and is in the process of putting the photo on his new one, said Jackie Jacobs, a family spokeswoman.

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Tests show Illinois boy not missing N.C. child
FBI investigating youth left at Chicago-area hospital
Friday, May 2, 2003 Posted: 4:00 PM EDT (2000 GMT)

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- DNA tests have determined that a boy abandoned in Illinois is not Tristen "Buddy" Myers, who disappeared from his great-aunt's North Carolina home in 2000, government sources told CNN on Friday.

The hopes of Buddy's family had been raised because of a strong physical resemblance between the two boys, but the DNA tests proved it was only a resemblance.

The Associated Press reported Friday that Buddy's mother, Raven Myers, said the results were conclusive and that the abandoned boy is not her son.

The AP reported the mother made the statement in an interview with North Carolina television station WTVD.

A spokesman for the Myers family, which cared for Buddy before his disappearance, said the family's optimism had been dashed.

"As early as this morning, our hopes were very high, and we were very optimistic that we were going to have a reunion with little Buddy. But that is not the case," Jackie Jacobs said. She encouraged anyone with information regarding Buddy's whereabouts to call the local sheriff's office or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

"Buddy, if you are out there, the Myers family loves you very much," Jacobs said. "They have not forgotten about you. We are still looking for you. We will not give up until we find you."

Now that testing has determined Eli Quick is not the missing North Carolina boy, the FBI said it will continue to try to find out who Eli's parents are and how he came to be with Ricky Quick, the man who abandoned Eli at a Chicago-area hospital in February, FBI spokesman Thomas Kneir said.

Ricky Quick says the Illinois child is his stepson.
State and local investigators took DNA samples from Eli -- who officials said appears to be between 6 and 8 years old -- and the missing boy's birth mother to see whether they were related.

Buddy disappeared October 5, 2000, from the home of his great-aunt and great-uncle in Roseboro, North Carolina. He was with his three-legged mutt, Buck, and his black Doberman puppy, Sasha. The dogs later returned, but Buddy did not. He was then 4 years old.

In February, Ricky Quick brought a boy he identified as Eli to a hospital in Evanston, Illinois, saying he wanted the boy evaluated for "aggressive behavior," said Jill Manuel of the Illinois Department of Family and Children's Services. He threatened to leave the boy at the hospital, she said.

Seeing that the boy was filthy and fearing parental neglect, hospital workers called police, Manuel said.

Police arrested Ricky Quick on an outstanding shoplifting warrant, but he was released and never returned for the boy, who was turned over to foster care, Manuel said.

Raven Myers gave birth to Buddy in Louisiana when she was 15.
Chicago social workers who interviewed Eli said he was not able to tell them his birthday or offer much information about his family, so they contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They soon noticed a strong resemblance to Buddy.

Officials said the two boys both have a similar scar on the side of their necks and a speech impediment.

Myers, the 22-year-old mother of the missing North Carolina boy, had joint custody of Buddy after giving birth to him in Louisiana at 15.

After Myers' mother became terminally ill, Buddy was taken to live with his great-aunt and great-uncle in Roseboro, where he later disappeared.

Quick was relocated after he was released on the shoplifting warrant and late Tuesday was questioned by FBI agents in Chicago. The FBI said he went with the agents voluntarily and was not in custody.

Quick, who told reporters he was not charged, said Eli is his stepson, the product of an extramarital affair his now-deceased wife had during their 17-year marriage. Quick's wife, Sharon Smith, died in a car crash last May in which Eli was injured.

-- CNN's Mike Brooks, Gary Tuchman, Kimberly Osias and Jeff Flock contributed to this report.

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