From: doug@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com (Doug Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.dads-rights
Subject: MISSING/REWARD
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:42:53 GMT
Reply-To: doug@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com
Organization: General Electric

In article 12269@wetware.com, diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:
>] .
>] . much deleted stuff
>] .
>] On a somewhat more positive note - the CBS program
>] MISSING/REWARD had TWO stories in a row about children
>] who had been abducted by the mother, where the father
>] was the one searching for the child...wherein the
>] authorities seemed to actually believe that the mother
>] could be capable of abuse and it would be best to have
>] the child returned to the father.  Imagine that...
>] 
>] Diana
>]      
         
I believe the show is on FOX. Regardless, I have *serious* problems with this show, which may or may not be personal in nature. There is a lack of credibility that needs to be addressed. Don't believe everything you see and hear.

My brother and his kids have been featured before. The kids were shown, followed by the narrator stating that they had been "abducted by their non-custodial parent during a visit" when the truth of the matter is that *he* was the custodial parent (so there wasn't any visit occuring) at the time. The mother, two years previous, had attempted suicide/murder when she drove the kids to an open field and attached one end of a vacuum cleaner hose to the tailpipe and the other end into the back window. (Can you s


ay "premeditated"?)

Luckily someone happened by and everyone survived, barely. The wife pleaded guilty in time to *one* count of child abuse, never got any kind of mental therapy and was on the verge of getting custody at the time that the rest of the family *disappeared*. I say that because nobody (lawyers/courts/investigators/FBI) is looking out for my brother's interest. They all assume that he left, but she *did* try to kill the kids and she *did* make statements that she wished he was dead, so why hasn't anybody question


ed her about her possible role in the disappearance????

The bottom line is that, at least in this case, MISSING/REWARD never checked the validity of the information received and took off half-baked. If my brother and his kids *are* living somewhere, I have to believe that they are better off in that environment than back in Pennsylvania with their mother. (Now if she had gotten help and were able to accept the blame for what she attempted, I might feel different, but this is all being done out of personal spite.) I spoke with people associated with the program 


and was told at that time (January) that the producer of that show had left and that they were "making changes". It doesn't look it to me, though. Do you feel that they are checking out the other side of the story? Not me.

Finally, rumor has it that this case will be on Unsolved Mysteries soon as well. We'll see how *that* show handles the case, but we're trying to stop it before it happens. I find it incredible that so many people accept the words of this woman without looking into the *full* case or they probably wouldn't put so much time/effort/money into this.

'nuf said. Thanks for the ear. Doubt there's anything you can do.

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