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DNA Test Pending: Are You My Buddy?

Aired May 01, 2003 - 06:14   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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ARTHEL NEVILLE, CNN ANCHOR: A family in North Carolina must wait a couple more days for DNA results to determine if a little boy abandoned recently in Chicago is the same one who disappeared from home more than two years ago.
More now from CNN's Jeff Flock.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hope that looked so promising now seems to be fading that this boy that turned up in February in Chicago is named Eli Quick will in fact turn out to be the missing boy from North Carolina, missing for two years now, Buddy Myers.

We've been talking to people in the neighborhood where the man who claims to be Eli Quick's father lives. One person told us that they have known this little boy, Eli Quick, since he was very small. That would, of course, preclude him from being Myers who only disappeared a couple of years ago from his aunt's house in North Carolina.

Mr. Quick also was questioned by the FBI in connection with this case and ultimately released by the FBI. The story that he is telling reporters now is that the little boy, Eli Quick, was the product of an affair that Mr. Quick had some years ago with a women who later died of a drug overdose and the woman apparently gave this boy, Mr. Quick says, to him to raise.

DNA tests, though, expected to be the final determinant in this and those results are not expected for at least another day or so yet.

We'll continue to watch it.

Jeff Flock, CNN, in Chicago.

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Aired May 1, 2003 - 06:14   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ARTHEL NEVILLE, CNN ANCHOR: A family in North Carolina must wait a couple more days for DNA results to determine if a little boy abandoned recently in Chicago is the same one who disappeared from home more than two years ago.
More now from CNN's Jeff Flock.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hope that looked so promising now seems to be fading that this boy that turned up in February in Chicago is named Eli Quick will in fact turn out to be the missing boy from North Carolina, missing for two years now, Buddy Myers.

We've been talking to people in the neighborhood where the man who claims to be Eli Quick's father lives. One person told us that they have known this little boy, Eli Quick, since he was very small. That would, of course, preclude him from being Myers who only disappeared a couple of years ago from his aunt's house in North Carolina.

Mr. Quick also was questioned by the FBI in connection with this case and ultimately released by the FBI. The story that he is telling reporters now is that the little boy, Eli Quick, was the product of an affair that Mr. Quick had some years ago with a women who later died of a drug overdose and the woman apparently gave this boy, Mr. Quick says, to him to raise.

DNA tests, though, expected to be the final determinant in this and those results are not expected for at least another day or so yet.

We'll continue to watch it.

Jeff Flock, CNN, in Chicago.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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