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TulsaFearWasTULSA, Okla. (AP)~~Ffrustrated in their search, began looking for other leads today in the search for a t-year missing since Monday and a spokesman said it was feared the boy had l**en kidnaped Although hundreds of law enforcement officers and volunteers combed the area since Craig Neal was reported missing, they couldn’t find a clue as to his whereabouts,“We haven't found a trace of the boy after an intensive search of a two-square-rrule area around his home,” Sgt jack Clark of the Police Juvenile Bureau said today. “It definitely looks to me like lie was kidnaped now.” Bloodhounds and helicopters were used as the search of drainage ditches, storm sewers and open fields in the area was under way Tuesday,We’ve called ff the search in that area today,” Clark said. “We feel that he was picked up by someone and ha*- been taken from the area.”(lark said FBI agents would “be over here today to discuss with us what lines the investi-gation should toke from here.”The youngster’s parents aredivorced and both have remar ried The father said Craig was last seen playing across the street from his home, reportedly with a friend and an unidentified youngster.“We have been attempting to find one boy he was supposedto have been playing with but we haven’t lieen able to locate him either/’ Clark said. We are not sure at this point if hewas with another boy, so that's just about were we are in the investigation We just don’trnave much to report at this point,”PoliceBoy//The missing boy s Craig had never strayed far from home before He said theyhad lived in the area only about a month.“Craig is real friendly, andsomebody could have very easily picked him up.”“1 don’t believe it is a kidnaping for ransom, because thefamily doesn't have that kind ofmoney,” Clark said “I do la* ve at this point, however, that has been abducted We just don’t know what might havebeen the reason.”i*(\Ilt;JatjaoAuaUI*aiiSIItJ
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Miami News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Wed, Jun 05, 1974
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