Boy, 13, missing and feared kidnapped in Franklin County

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

BEAUFORT, Mo. -- For hours before 13-year-old William "Ben" Ownby turned up missing, neighbors saw a beat-up white pickup cruising his rural neighborhood. A schoolmate saw what was possibly that same truck speeding away about the time Ben disappeared.

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