Fayetteville police discuss for missing teen boy and possible female relative
police update
ETA breakdown
London was discovered to be not present in the home while investigating Blake's absence. LE is correcting London's age. She would be 27 years old at this time, not 28 as was previously reported. A search warrant was executed by FBI at a home the Deven family used to live today in hopes of locating any evidence. The family who lives in that home now was cooperative with the search and have no connection at all to this investigation or the Deven family.
These are unusual MP cases. Our investigation didn't start with a 911 call. Blake and London have been missing for years. This will be a complex investigation and will likely take time. Detectives are piecing together a timeline of events and seeking information from anyone who has interacted with or made observations of Blake or London at any time, any interaction of any kind no matter how recent or how old are significant to this case.
There has been a lot of questions about the relationship between Blake and London and the Deven family, including questions about whether they were adopted of foster children. Please understand legally we cannot comment on whether there was an adoption or foster placement at this time. I know that everyone in our community has more questions than answers right now. Please understand the Fayettesville PD and FBI remain committed to finding out what happened to these two young people and the public release of investigative details in not in the best interest of finding Blake and London.
I can tell you the Deven family moved to the Fayetteville area in 2015. We are asking the public to think back over this long period of time and if anyone came in contact with Blake or London or other members of the family we want to hear from you. We know that everyone wants to help us. One way the public can help is to share official information on social media like the FBI posters and the Fayettesville PD posts. If you have local businesses, print out the posters of Blake and London and hang them on your door, like we have here at the FPD.
He then opened up the floor for questions from the media
Q. can you give us a timeline on when he, the child was missing, to the extent that when you found out about it and where we are now in terms of looking for both of them, because the reports came out days after each other that they were missing
A. As I stated, we are asking for any time since we've established they have been in fayettesville since about 2015. Any information will help us piece together the empty spaces in our timeline. That is what we are looking for to help locate Blake and London
Q. 1 follow up question - How did this conversation come about? It's my understanding the way you reported it, you were conducting a separate investigation and then all ofa sudden we find out a child is missing. Is that something where your investigators said "hey, have you seen Blake?" or did the family member just all of a sudden just volunteer that information to you?
A. so, we are trying to determine how these these people have been missing. we want people to stay focused on getting us the information that can help us piece together that timeline and help locate Blake Deven. It's not something I can give you a definitive answer on right now.
