With the world transfixed on his story, Shawn spoke to Oprah Winfrey about his experience in Speaking to the host, he said that he had used the internet to ask his parents a heartbreaking question.
They've changed, but I could recognise them in 20 more years, instantly,' he told Winfrey, before adding that while he had access to the internet and a phone, he was unable to contact them. Devlin was caught kidnapping another boy- year-old Ben Ownby. He had been missing for four days when police entered a small apartment in Kirkwood, Missouri to find two boys.
Left picture: Shawn Hornbeck bottom right stays close to his mother, Pam Akers left , and step-father, Craig Akers, during a press conference in But he was able to send them a message on a website that had been set up to help find him, using his real name.
In the interview, Oprah asked: 'I had read that you had gone to the Internet site to asked 'how long will you be looking for your son'. What did you feel doing that? Was that a way to connect with them? His father Craig said he could remember the message, telling the host: 'I remember reading it, I remember thinking to myself either this is someone with that name or this is someone trying to yank my chain. It was strange. On a daily basis you get so many weird, out there message.
Shawn Hornbeck, center, talks with members of the media in St. Louis, Missouri in He was being asked questiong about a missing woman who had been found in Cleveland. The two doors, bottom left and right, that access the apartment in the complex in the block of South Holmes where police found two missing boys in the apartment of Michael J. Devlin on Saturday, Jan. Shawn said the message had been a cry for hope, and at the time, he just wanted his life to get back to normal - to return to school, to work and to spend more time with his family - including his two sisters.
Craig sadly passed away in from bladder cancer aged 57, with Pam saying she was 'so grateful he got to spend more time with Shawn'. Devlin pleaded guilty to all the counts against him and was sentenced to 72 years behind bars.
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Once it started to rain, they asked him if he wanted to sit in their car for shelter. He sat with Willett in the back seat, she told the Post-Dispatch. The pair talked for hours. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter.
Looking at the side of his neck, I could see the pulse quicken, I could see a physiological change, when we would talk about the abduction. Willett told the Post-Dispatch that Devlin took the agents to his ground-floor apartment nearby. He was told to go in first, so as to not raise any alarm with the boys.
Ownby was taken for five days in January — and the search for him inadvertently solved both cases. They said they stayed close to him to help with his transition. Hornbeck, now 25, attended private school after his rescue and later got a factory job in Missouri, according to the Post-Dispatch.
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