Missing boy's family turns to psychic

RICHWOODS, Mo. -- With few other leads to go on in the search for a missing 11-year-old eastern Missouri, Shawn Hornbeck's family has put its faith in an Illinois psychic's read on the fifth-grader's possible whereabouts.

The psychic, whose name was not released, told the family Thursday through an intermediary that the boy was struck Sunday night by a vehicle off Highway 47 and was buried by the motorist, said Rodney Akers of Bourbon, Mo., the boy's uncle.

While relatives were skeptical -- "I don't have any faith in psychics, but we don't have any leads to go on," Akers said -- a motorist did lose control of a car Sunday night on Highway 47, the same night Shawn was reported missing.