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Initial Tests on Little Boy Inconclusive
Aired May 01, 2003 - 05:12 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 CORRESPONDENT: President Bush has signed a sweeping child protection bill. Kidnap survivor Elizabeth Smart attended the Rose Garden ceremony with her parents. The Salt Lake City teen was taken from her home at knifepoint last June in a disappearance that gripped the nation. The new legislation signed by President Bush encourages states to set up amber alert systems to find abducted children.
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.
As CNN's Gary Tuchman reports, initial tests are inconclusive in proving if Eli Quick's real name is Tristan "Buddy" Myers.
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GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The FBI is now saying it will have DNA results no later than Saturday that will likely determine if the boy on the left, Tristan "Buddy" Myers, missing since October 2000, is the same person as the boy on the right, Eli Quick, now in an Illinois foster home. Ricky Quick says they are two different boys. He told the FBI on Wednesday he is the stepfather of Eli Quick, saying Eli's mother, Sharon Smith, died in a car crash.
QUESTION: If this is not Buddy Myers, is this just a strange coincidence that...
RICKY QUICK: No, it's my wife's little boy and we had the bad relationship and that's it.
QUESTION: So it's another man's child?
QUICK: Yes.
QUESTION: OK. How long were you married to Sharon?
QUICK: Seventeen years. That's it. No more comments.
QUESTION: OK.
TUCHMAN: But the missing boy's guardian, his great aunt, who was with him just before he disappeared, is convinced the boy in Illinois is her boy.
DONNA MYERS, BUDDY'S GREAT AUNT: I'm just doing a lot of praying that it is him. In our hearts we all believe that it is him. I mean if it's not him, how, you know, can another child look so much like him?
TUCHMAN: Meanwhile, the missing boy's birth mother, who gave up custody of Buddy because she was 15 when she had him, says not only does she think it's him, but she plans to fight to get custody back.
RAVEN MYERS, BUDDY'S MOTHER: I'm really excited. I hope if it's him that I can be a momma again and hope to get the kind of relationship that he needs to have with his mom, which is me.
TUCHMAN: Raven Myers is currently a dancer at an adult club who says she does and custody of another child, a 1-year-old daughter. And in one more complicated twist, authorities say they are investigating reports she and alleged Chicago stepfather Ricky Quick lived near each other when the missing boy was born.
(on camera): The authorities are telling us that they're looking into the possibility that this Ricky Quick, who brought this boy to the hospital in Illinois, may have lived in Louisiana at the same time as you.
DONNA MYERS: See, I heard that and I've been told that and I don't, I've never met him. I've never seen this man except on TV last night.
TUCHMAN: Is there any possibility that perhaps you just don't remember seeing him or being with him?
DONNA MYERS: I would remember a face like that and I don't remember him.
TUCHMAN: In this house behind me, the great aunt has her heart set on getting Buddy back in her home. So if there is good news for the Myers family, it could be the beginning of a rather unseemly family fight.
Gary Tuchman, CNN, Roseborough, North Carolina.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired May 1, 2003 - 05:12 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ARTHEL NEVILLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Bush has signed a sweeping child protection bill. Kidnap survivor Elizabeth Smart attended the Rose Garden ceremony with her parents. The Salt Lake City teen was taken from her home at knifepoint last June in a disappearance that gripped the nation. The new legislation signed by President Bush encourages states to set up amber alert systems to find abducted children.
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.
As CNN's Gary Tuchman reports, initial tests are inconclusive in proving if Eli Quick's real name is Tristan "Buddy" Myers.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The FBI is now saying it will have DNA results no later than Saturday that will likely determine if the boy on the left, Tristan "Buddy" Myers, missing since October 2000, is the same person as the boy on the right, Eli Quick, now in an Illinois foster home. Ricky Quick says they are two different boys. He told the FBI on Wednesday he is the stepfather of Eli Quick, saying Eli's mother, Sharon Smith, died in a car crash.
QUESTION: If this is not Buddy Myers, is this just a strange coincidence that...
RICKY QUICK: No, it's my wife's little boy and we had the bad relationship and that's it.
QUESTION: So it's another man's child?
QUICK: Yes.
QUESTION: OK. How long were you married to Sharon?
QUICK: Seventeen years. That's it. No more comments.
QUESTION: OK.
TUCHMAN: But the missing boy's guardian, his great aunt, who was with him just before he disappeared, is convinced the boy in Illinois is her boy.
DONNA MYERS, BUDDY'S GREAT AUNT: I'm just doing a lot of praying that it is him. In our hearts we all believe that it is him. I mean if it's not him, how, you know, can another child look so much like him?
TUCHMAN: Meanwhile, the missing boy's birth mother, who gave up custody of Buddy because she was 15 when she had him, says not only does she think it's him, but she plans to fight to get custody back.
RAVEN MYERS, BUDDY'S MOTHER: I'm really excited. I hope if it's him that I can be a momma again and hope to get the kind of relationship that he needs to have with his mom, which is me.
TUCHMAN: Raven Myers is currently a dancer at an adult club who says she does and custody of another child, a 1-year-old daughter. And in one more complicated twist, authorities say they are investigating reports she and alleged Chicago stepfather Ricky Quick lived near each other when the missing boy was born.
(on camera): The authorities are telling us that they're looking into the possibility that this Ricky Quick, who brought this boy to the hospital in Illinois, may have lived in Louisiana at the same time as you.
DONNA MYERS: See, I heard that and I've been told that and I don't, I've never met him. I've never seen this man except on TV last night.
TUCHMAN: Is there any possibility that perhaps you just don't remember seeing him or being with him?
DONNA MYERS: I would remember a face like that and I don't remember him.
TUCHMAN: In this house behind me, the great aunt has her heart set on getting Buddy back in her home. So if there is good news for the Myers family, it could be the beginning of a rather unseemly family fight.
Gary Tuchman, CNN, Roseborough, North Carolina.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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