The Miracle in Missouri
But Was It Too Late?
It's always big news when some crackety-crack child goes missing, but it's even bigger news on the rare occasion they're actually found alive, which was the case here in Missouri this weekend.
Ben Ownby, on your left, had gone missing last week, snatched up on his way home from the bus stop. The kid on your right, Shawn Hornbeck, had the same thing happen to him way the fuck back in 2002. Amazingly, both of them were found alive in some d-bag's apartment the other day.
(I don't know if this is news or what, but my boy Fitz did some Internets sleuthing and found that the guy who kidnapped these two had left messages under his own name in the guest book on the Shawn Horbeck website. If so, that's good detective work.)
I had to stay at my parents' house Sunday and Monday because we had another nasty ice storm this weekend. Yesterday morning I was watching the Today Show and of course they had John Walsh on to talk about the news.
Someone had the sheer balls to ask him the question that I'm sure has occurred to the rest of us, which is: why didn't Shawn Hornbeck run after all these years? All John Walsh could put forth was that such questions were counterproductive, but I think it's pretty obvious when you think about it.
The media has made it a point to note that the kidnapper guy was 300 pounds, while Hornbeck and this other kid were in the neighborhood of 97 pounds when they went missing. Still, I can tell you from experience that a 300 pound man isn't going to give much of a chase.
I'm pretty sure the real reason Sean Hornbeck didn't want to go home lies in the same reason this guy went out this weekend looking for another young piece of meat. Namely, there was more going on in that shitty apartment than just homework...
Obviously, it'd be difficult to tell something like that just from looking at a picture... but check out the slight smirk on Ben Ownby's face as well as the slightly dead look in Shawn Horbeck's eyes: these two kids have been tampered with.
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Speaking of bufuing, after the jump is a preview of this week's Real World.
