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Buddy Myers' Family's Hopes Dashed
Aired May 03, 2003 - 14:03 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: The fate a missing North Carolina boy nicknamed "Buddy" is still unknown today. His family's hopes were dashed when a DNA test did not match with another boy located in Illinois, now in foster care. And as CNN's Jeff Flock reports, the search for "Buddy" Myers goes on.
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JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It looked so promising, the little boy from North Carolina we'd seen in a pool missing for two years looked just like this bedraggled boy who turned up outside Chicago. They had similar speech impediment, scares in the same places. But the would-be miracle turned out instead to be coincidence.
TOM KNEIR, FBI: The two children are not identical.
FLOCK: Chicago FBI agent Tom Kneir says a DNA test proves it.
RAVEN MYERS, BUDDY MYERS' MOTHER: I got all worked up and my hopes up for nothing.
FLOCK: The test proves Raven Myers, the topless dancer from North Carolina, is not the mother of the boy in Chicago, Eli Quick. Her own little "Buddy" Myers, who would be 6 now, is still missing.
MYERS: I don't want anybody to call me up until they have results or DNA or they know for sure, because I don't want to keep going through this.
FLOCK: Raven Myers' bad news is Ricky Quick's good.
RICKY QUICK: I am (UNINTELLIGIBLE) for my son. I am looking forward to getting him back.
FLOCK: Quick, who believes he is Eli's father, brought him to this Evansville (ph), Illinois hospital in February and essentially abandoned him, dirty and poorly cared, say social workers. He'll have to answer for that, they say, before he gets Eli back. He hasn't yet.
QUICK: No more comment, that's it. Get out of my way.
FLOCK: And he'll have to prove Eli is his, the product of an affair with a Chicago prostitute as he claims.
JILL MANUEL, ILLINOIS DEPT. OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: We are piecing together the pieces of this puzzle. It's been like a detective novel for us.
FLOCK: A novel, the story of one missing little boy with a possible miracle ending turns out instead to be two sad stories, neither of which has an end, happy or otherwise.
I'm Jeff Flock, CNN, in Chicago.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired May 3, 2003 - 14:03 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: The fate a missing North Carolina boy nicknamed "Buddy" is still unknown today. His family's hopes were dashed when a DNA test did not match with another boy located in Illinois, now in foster care. And as CNN's Jeff Flock reports, the search for "Buddy" Myers goes on.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It looked so promising, the little boy from North Carolina we'd seen in a pool missing for two years looked just like this bedraggled boy who turned up outside Chicago. They had similar speech impediment, scares in the same places. But the would-be miracle turned out instead to be coincidence.
TOM KNEIR, FBI: The two children are not identical.
FLOCK: Chicago FBI agent Tom Kneir says a DNA test proves it.
RAVEN MYERS, BUDDY MYERS' MOTHER: I got all worked up and my hopes up for nothing.
FLOCK: The test proves Raven Myers, the topless dancer from North Carolina, is not the mother of the boy in Chicago, Eli Quick. Her own little "Buddy" Myers, who would be 6 now, is still missing.
MYERS: I don't want anybody to call me up until they have results or DNA or they know for sure, because I don't want to keep going through this.
FLOCK: Raven Myers' bad news is Ricky Quick's good.
RICKY QUICK: I am (UNINTELLIGIBLE) for my son. I am looking forward to getting him back.
FLOCK: Quick, who believes he is Eli's father, brought him to this Evansville (ph), Illinois hospital in February and essentially abandoned him, dirty and poorly cared, say social workers. He'll have to answer for that, they say, before he gets Eli back. He hasn't yet.
QUICK: No more comment, that's it. Get out of my way.
FLOCK: And he'll have to prove Eli is his, the product of an affair with a Chicago prostitute as he claims.
JILL MANUEL, ILLINOIS DEPT. OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: We are piecing together the pieces of this puzzle. It's been like a detective novel for us.
FLOCK: A novel, the story of one missing little boy with a possible miracle ending turns out instead to be two sad stories, neither of which has an end, happy or otherwise.
I'm Jeff Flock, CNN, in Chicago.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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