Source: http://www.idahostatesman.com/273/story/852598.html
Snips:
1. The man whose Boise home and yard were being searched Friday night for evidence related to Robert Manwill's disappearance says he knows the 8-year-old's family but has no idea what may have happened to him.
1a. If it's going to help anything, do it," Wallis said. He said he knows Robert's mother and her boyfriend but is much closer to the boyfriend's brother, David Ehrlick.
"I'm innocent. I'm an innocent bystander." [
my comment - this person seems to feel that the Ehrlick family may well be capable of some criminal activity. He doesn't say, "This family is innocent" or "I know these people and they are kind, innocent persons"...contrarily, he seems to want to
divorce himself from anything related to the Ehrlick family].
1b. On Friday, police said they had discovered "suspicious circumstances," and as night fell authorities were searching Wallis' backyard.
1c. Wallis said the police were digging up his backyard after bloodhounds picked up a scent at his house. He said his black-and-gray Chevy Suburban was stolen July 22 after
someone came into his house and took the keys.
[Comment - Wallis doesn't indicate that someone "broke" into his house which causes me to believe that someone in the Ehrlick family had keys to the home already]
1d. When officials investigated, he told them of his connection to the Ehrlick family."I mentioned that I know these guys. I've met the little boy," Wallis said.
2. "It makes me sick to know this is going down at my house right now," he said. "I didn't do nothing back there. I'm not going to say for the record nothing's back there because I don't know. Maybe something did happen along the lines when I was out of town."
[Comment - this strongly indicates that Wallis has no problem seeing someone in the Ehrlick family being capable of committing this crime]
3.
This one troubles me a whole lot...
Ehrlick Sr. said he used to pick up Robert at his father's house in New Plymouth and bring him to Boise. He teared up as he discussed the missing child while smoking a cigarette in his front yard.
Ehrlick Sr. and his youngest son, David, told a story of a boy that was constantly in trouble with his mother for the pettiest of infractions. David Ehrlick said that Robert was not allowed to go outside and play during a recent birthday party.
"It was scary around her with her children. Robert would get in trouble for everything. It didn't matter if it was asking a question, he'd get grounded. He'd have to sit on his hands," said David Ehrlick. "He's just a little boy."
Last comment - there are a ton of other questions and concerns that arise upon reading this news story, but I thought I'd break it off here because I'm not even sure that all of this information has been already covered and processed.