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Searchers Comb Woods for Missing Kansas Boy=Adam Herman

by helpfindthem | January 11, 2009 at 04:34 pm

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Searchers Comb Woods for Missing Kansas Boy

10 Jan 2009, 3:19 PM CST

TOWANDA, Kan. -- Investigators are using search dogs Saturday to scour a wooded area along the banks of the Whitewater River for a Kansas boy whose disappearance went unreported for a decade.

Adam Herrman was 11 years old when he went missing in 1999 from his adoptive parents' mobile home in Towanda. He would be 21 years old now if he is still alive.

His disappearance finally came to light last week when authorities searched the empty lot in Towanda where the family's mobile home once stood.

Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy says no specific tips have led them to the wooded area just west of Towanda. The area is a popular hangout for local youths.

Murphy concedes that he really does not have high hopes after all this time to find anything, but says investigators won't know until they look.

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Uwe Paschen

at 20:58 on January 11th, 2009

It is a incredible story and well worth making a post of it, However it can not stand like this. The Video is a CNN video and CNN does have copy rights. I doubt that CNN loaded it up to YouTube. Please do make a good post out of it. You do have a great amount of material here and in previous posting about this case. It would make one great article.

kiah (not verified)

at 20:09 on January 13th, 2009

I believe he is dead! sorry to say but the law sucks why would some one not report him missing??? give those dumb @zz'zz a lie detector test! check for blood stains...they deserve to be in jail!!!! damn junkies!!!!!!!!

Aaron W Bell SR (not verified)

at 21:50 on January 13th, 2009

In is my opinion that the adoptive parents should take a polygraph test because it is ovious that they were lying to all for over ten years so they could keep colecting from the stste.

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Aaron Bell SR. (not verified)

at 21:59 on January 13th, 2009

It is my opinion that the adoptive parents should take a polygraph test it is ovious they were lying to all over ten years os they could keep the payments from the state coming in.

Acw (not verified)

at 09:12 on April 7th, 2009

It is strange and tragic that a child can fall through the cracks and no one outside the family knew. I don't understand how no one ended up reporting him because there were other children in the home. Unfortunately this will not be the last time something like this happens because it seems that those who would take care of children cant get them and those that wont have no problems.