ID - Robert Manwill, 8, Boise, 24 July 2009 - #2

[jnTexas]

Talking about finding the body now. UGH!!!!

A person that saw the body jumped in and pulled the body out of the water.

ADA county coroner perform autopsy tomorrow. NO positive ID yet.

The body is a child approx the same size and age as Robert.

How sad for this person.

 

[panthera]

Talking about finding the body now. UGH!!!!

A person that saw the body jumped in and pulled the body out of the water.

ADA county coroner perform autopsy tomorrow. NO positive ID yet.

The body is a child approx the same size and age as Robert.

I just have a feeling it's him, but being in the water probably made ID impossible without the autopsy. .

 

[LadyBugSTL]

Ya'll were right - NG didn't break once off the MJ report while the presser was on - still has not reported it.

 

[SuziQ]

How sad for this person.

It was a deputy, but still sad for them.

 

[pinkfly]

So Sad....lighting a candle

 

[mysticrose]

Unfortunatley from the tone of LE it sounds like it is Robert.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

And the damn MJ video couldn't have been paused for 5 minutes? Noooo....I guess being the "first" ones to show the MJ video is far more important than being the first ones to show the presser about a child's body. Ugh.

 

[SuziQ]

My bold.

Did I hear that wrong? It's a possibility. I thought he said that one of the 2 people that called in the body jumped into the canal to take him out.

Or I heard wrong.

 

[LadyBugSTL]

Ya'll were right - NG didn't break once off the MJ report while the presser was on - still has not reported it.

I think I've officially "had it" w/NG and JVM.

God bless that person who jumped in!!!! You know what I was thinking -- I think the speculation over Robert being placed elsewhere and floating off was right - first he wasn't visible - then all of a sudden there he was - spotted by 2 people?

 

[panthera]

Ya'll were right - NG didn't break once off the MJ report while the presser was on - still has not reported it.

What's sad is MJ would probably want the coverage on the missing child instead of himself. MOO

 

[LaLaw2000]

Or I heard wrong.

I thought it was a deputy also.

I do hope that the person/people who saw the body in the canal did not pull it out before LE and detectives arrived at the scene.

 

[fhc]

Or I heard wrong.

That's what I heard, too.

 

[jnTexas]

this is so heartbreaking. I could not imagine losing a child. I also could not imgaine how tough to tell your child whose has already lost one sibling (murdered) that another sibling is now gone, and most likely murdered. I surely hope the father and brother get support from their family.

My heart goes out to them.

 

[Noway]

No other children are missing in the area. IMO it does not look good.

 

[DolphinsByTheSea]

my prayers go out to this family, and that god hear our pleas that whom ever hurt this child and any other child not go unpunished!!!

 

[john's mom]

I really thought they'd have ID'd him by now. Even just by dental records or something. So sad, I can't imagine the agony for his poor dad. It's so hard to lose one child, but to have to go through it twice in a lifetime is so much to bear.

 

[panthera]

I thought it was a deputy also.

I do hope that the person/people who saw the body in the canal did not pull it out before LE and detectives arrived at the scene.

I also thought it was the deputy who removed him from the water.

 

[panthera]

No other children are missing in the area. IMO it does not look good.

That's why I think it's Robert. :cry:

 

[graphicsgal]

It was a deputy who pulled him out of the water..per the Statesman website.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/854612.html

 

[graphicsgal]

That's why I think it's Robert. :cry:

Me too...I haven't heard of any other little men missing in Boise. Very sad times.