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Missing Boy Mystery

Aired April 29, 2003 - 08:35   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We're joined by Sergeant Darold Cox of Sampson County Sheriff's Department in North Carolina to learn more about this story.
Sergeant, good morning. Thanks for being with us.

SGT. DAROLD COX, SAMPSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: Thank you.

KAGAN: Can you tell us more ho about how this potential match was made?

COX: I didn't understand your question.

KAGAN: The potential match, how did you even get a clue that perhaps this little boy in Illinois could be the child you've been looking for so many years out of North Carolina?

COX: You know, we have to give all the credit to the social worker up in Chicago. She went online to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and she felt like it was a match. The center feels like it's a match. All we're waiting for now is tests to come back.

KAGAN: We hear in that piece, it could take as long as six weeks, is that right?

COX: I have no idea.

KAGAN: You don't know about that?

COX: No, ma'am. We present the evidence, what evidence we have, to the lab core, and we're just waiting on the results.

KAGAN: We heard some response from the family in the last piece we were listening to. Have you had a chance to talk with the family?

COX: Yes, ma'am. I've talked to them.

KAGAN: And is there a sense of great relief, anticipation, hope?

COX: A lot of hope.

KAGAN: Just standing by. And what about you, sir? You've worked on the case how long, 2 1/2 years?

COX: Yes, ma'am. KAGAN: And how many close calls, or was there a point you thought the file in the drawer, or was there something about this that kept you going?

COX: We've investigated an awful lot of leads, and some have been real good, and there's been a lot of disappointment.

KAGAN: I can understand. Well, you do important work trying to reunite a family like this. If a reunion's going to happen, any idea how long that will take?

COX: No, ma'am, I do not have any idea.

KAGAN: I guess you have to wait on those test results to come back. Thanks for giving us an update on that. And we wish you well in trying to reunite the family, if this is indeed the match of little Buddy and his family in North Carolina.

COX: Thank you.

KAGAN: Thank you for joining us, Sergeant Darold Cox, from Sampson County, North Carolina.

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Aired April 29, 2003 - 08:35   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We're joined by Sergeant Darold Cox of Sampson County Sheriff's Department in North Carolina to learn more about this story.
Sergeant, good morning. Thanks for being with us.

SGT. DAROLD COX, SAMPSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: Thank you.

KAGAN: Can you tell us more ho about how this potential match was made?

COX: I didn't understand your question.

KAGAN: The potential match, how did you even get a clue that perhaps this little boy in Illinois could be the child you've been looking for so many years out of North Carolina?

COX: You know, we have to give all the credit to the social worker up in Chicago. She went online to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and she felt like it was a match. The center feels like it's a match. All we're waiting for now is tests to come back.

KAGAN: We hear in that piece, it could take as long as six weeks, is that right?

COX: I have no idea.

KAGAN: You don't know about that?

COX: No, ma'am. We present the evidence, what evidence we have, to the lab core, and we're just waiting on the results.

KAGAN: We heard some response from the family in the last piece we were listening to. Have you had a chance to talk with the family?

COX: Yes, ma'am. I've talked to them.

KAGAN: And is there a sense of great relief, anticipation, hope?

COX: A lot of hope.

KAGAN: Just standing by. And what about you, sir? You've worked on the case how long, 2 1/2 years?

COX: Yes, ma'am. KAGAN: And how many close calls, or was there a point you thought the file in the drawer, or was there something about this that kept you going?

COX: We've investigated an awful lot of leads, and some have been real good, and there's been a lot of disappointment.

KAGAN: I can understand. Well, you do important work trying to reunite a family like this. If a reunion's going to happen, any idea how long that will take?

COX: No, ma'am, I do not have any idea.

KAGAN: I guess you have to wait on those test results to come back. Thanks for giving us an update on that. And we wish you well in trying to reunite the family, if this is indeed the match of little Buddy and his family in North Carolina.

COX: Thank you.

KAGAN: Thank you for joining us, Sergeant Darold Cox, from Sampson County, North Carolina.

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