"Sommer Thompson Body Found" Posts Spam the Web

by Jordan Yerman | January 22, 2010 at 08:40 am
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This morning I saw several scraper-site posts claiming that "Sommer Thompson's body had been found", with no backup or sources. I dunno who Sommer Thompson is, but Somer Thompson was abducted on October 17, 2009 on the way home from school in Orange Park.  Florida. Somer Thompson's body was found days later in a Georgia landfill, and the killer has not yet been caught.

For some reason, the story that "Sommer Thompson" has been found dead in a garbage dump has been spreading across the web, but not on any sites I'd consider legit: misspelling the name in a nationally-famous abduction and murder case is immediate cause for circumspection.

In more legit news, it looks like Somer Thompson and her siblings had "gotten lost" on the way home from school, and were perhaps nearly abducted before. The item below, though, raises more questions than it answers.

he unidentified worker told the Department of Children and Families that Somer Thompson and her three siblings got lost at least once walking from Grove Park Elementary School and were found in the woods with a stranger.
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