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Missing Boy Mystery
Aired May 02, 2003 - 07:10 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the case of a missing boy and more mystery. Law enforcement sources now say it's highly unlikely that Tristen "Buddy" Myers, seen here, is the same boy who was abandoned recently in Chicago.
Mike Brooks is following the case for us. He's at the CNN Center.
And, Mike, you've been talking with your sources. Is there no hope for the Myers' family now?
MIKE BROOKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, right now, Carol, it looks like there's maybe a 10 percent hope.
After talking to law enforcement sources yesterday, they say that from their interviews that they did with Eli Quick, the boy in Chicago, with his father, Ricky, and all of the other leads that they've run out in this case, as well as preliminary DNA testing, they believe, they are 90 percent sure that the two boys are not related; that they do not think that the boy in Chicago is the missing boy, Tristen "Buddy" Myers.
But, the family does hold out hope, and everyone else does, too, Carol, that that 10 percent of sliver of hope that the DNA testing will come back, hopefully sometime today, that it could be Buddy.
Now, I spoke yesterday with Jackie Jacobs, who is the spokesperson for the Myers' family in Roseboro, North Carolina, and she said -- and I find this unusual, too, as a former investigator -- that no one from law enforcement has spoken to her from the Chicago area who is doing a lot of the investigation. No one has spoken to her about any leads that they've run out dealing with Buddy.
And, again, if law enforcement was strong enough, I think, to think that this was Tristen "Buddy" Myers that they may have flown one of the family members up there. But they have not spoken to them at all, and they find that highly unusual -- Carol.
COSTELLO: That is highly unusual. Something else highly unusual. There was such an odd number of coincidences in this case. For example, the two boys had breaks in their legs at about the same place. They had some of the same scars. So, I don't know, when you say 10 percent that really doesn't sound hopeful, but how bizarre that there were so many similarities.
BROOKS: Very much so. And, you know, Tristen "Buddy" Myers, apparently when he was 3 years old, was run over in the driveway by one of his relatives. This boy, Eli Quick in Chicago, he had been in an automobile accident in Colorado. A lot of similarities here -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, Mike Brooks, thanks for the update.
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Aired May 2, 2003 - 07:10 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the case of a missing boy and more mystery. Law enforcement sources now say it's highly unlikely that Tristen "Buddy" Myers, seen here, is the same boy who was abandoned recently in Chicago.
Mike Brooks is following the case for us. He's at the CNN Center.
And, Mike, you've been talking with your sources. Is there no hope for the Myers' family now?
MIKE BROOKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, right now, Carol, it looks like there's maybe a 10 percent hope.
After talking to law enforcement sources yesterday, they say that from their interviews that they did with Eli Quick, the boy in Chicago, with his father, Ricky, and all of the other leads that they've run out in this case, as well as preliminary DNA testing, they believe, they are 90 percent sure that the two boys are not related; that they do not think that the boy in Chicago is the missing boy, Tristen "Buddy" Myers.
But, the family does hold out hope, and everyone else does, too, Carol, that that 10 percent of sliver of hope that the DNA testing will come back, hopefully sometime today, that it could be Buddy.
Now, I spoke yesterday with Jackie Jacobs, who is the spokesperson for the Myers' family in Roseboro, North Carolina, and she said -- and I find this unusual, too, as a former investigator -- that no one from law enforcement has spoken to her from the Chicago area who is doing a lot of the investigation. No one has spoken to her about any leads that they've run out dealing with Buddy.
And, again, if law enforcement was strong enough, I think, to think that this was Tristen "Buddy" Myers that they may have flown one of the family members up there. But they have not spoken to them at all, and they find that highly unusual -- Carol.
COSTELLO: That is highly unusual. Something else highly unusual. There was such an odd number of coincidences in this case. For example, the two boys had breaks in their legs at about the same place. They had some of the same scars. So, I don't know, when you say 10 percent that really doesn't sound hopeful, but how bizarre that there were so many similarities.
BROOKS: Very much so. And, you know, Tristen "Buddy" Myers, apparently when he was 3 years old, was run over in the driveway by one of his relatives. This boy, Eli Quick in Chicago, he had been in an automobile accident in Colorado. A lot of similarities here -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, Mike Brooks, thanks for the update.
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