Michael John Devlin
Michael John Devlin was a lonely man.
Adopted into a large family of other adopted children, most of his family and friends were either married or had moved off somewhere.
He had parents that cared for him and a happy childhood, full of trips to places like YellowStone National Park and New York City.
Somehow, Mr. Michael Devlin just hadn’t found that special women yet. His boss couldn’t remember Michael Devlin mentioning a single girlfriend in the 25 years that he worked there.
A store manager for a Missouri pizza place, the 6’4″, 300-pound Michael Devlin somehow made time during his busy days to abduct and hold captive pre-teen boys.
In 2002, Michael Devlin was diagnosed with diabetes, which eventually led to the amputation of his toes. He was probably a little upset with this, because he was the outdoors-type, enjoying his hunting and fishing activities like many folks in Missouri.
He was upset enough that he used a gun and grabbed 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck on October 6th of 2002, off his bike while Shawn was riding to a friend’s house in Richwoods, Missouri.
Shawn was isolated completely from the outside world and restrained with duct tape for about 30 days. Slowly, over the years, Michael Devlin warped and twisted Shawn’s mind, stripping his identity from him, rewarding good behavior with treats like video games and punishing bad behavior with sodomy. Once a month, Shawn would get sodomized.
Shawn broke, of course, as just about any 11-year-old would.
His family wondered where he was for 1558 days.
Michael Devlin passed Shawn off as his son. Shawn, brainwashed, played the role to the hilt.
On January 9th of 2007, Michael Devlin took a sick day, drove around with his “son” Shawn, and grabbed 13-year-old William Ownby off the street while he was walking home from where the school bus dropped him off after school. Stuffing William Ownby down onto the floorboard of the white Nissan truck, they drove off and took the boy to Michael Devlin’s apartment.
Fortunately someone had seen the truck and were able to provide a description of it to police, who used it to track down Mr. Michael Devlin.
Shawn Hornbeck and William Ownby were reunited with their parents.
Michael Devlin is in jail, waiting for his trial.
But…since the beginning of the investigations into Michael Devlin’s background, the places he’s been and the methods he used to kidnap these boys, officials are looking into other, unsolved disappearances that have some of the same traits and could possibly involve Mr. Devlin.
- Scott Kleeschulte was nine years old when he disappeared while riding his bike near his home in St. Charles, Missouri, in June 1988.
- Jacob Wetterling was eleven when he was abducted by an armed man in Minnesota, on October 22, 1989, while riding his bike with his younger brother and a friend.
- Charles Henderson, then eleven, disappeared in 1991 while riding his bike on a rural road in Moscow Mills, which is a small town about an hour’s drive from St. Louis, Missouri.
- Steven Kraft, then twelve, disappeared on February 15, 2001 from Benton Township, Michigan. Steven was last seen walking his two dogs in the evening, failing to return home to dinner. His two dogs were found, but Steven was gone.
- Dalton Mesarchik, a 7-year-old, was kidnapped in March 2003 from his front lawn in Streator, Illinois, and found dead the next day on the banks of the Vermilion River.
Will Michael Devlin be charged in these disappearances? Time will tell. Would you be surprised if he was? I doubt it.
For now, Michael Devlin has been charged with many counts of forcible sodomy, a few kidnapping charges, some attempted murder charges, two counts of transporting a minor across state lines for sexual activity, and a count of armed criminal action. Oh yeah, throw “manufacturing child porn” in there.
We shall see.
Update:
On the 8th of October, 2007, Michael Devlin pled guilty to all charges. He was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping a child. He also pled guilty to charges in different counties. Michael Devlin was sentenced to spend three lifetimes in prison for kidnapping and the other crimes he committed against Shawn Hornbeck, which will start after the life sentence is served for kidnapping Ben Ownby.
On the 21st of December, 2007, Michael Devlin was hit with an additional 170 years for making pornography of one of the boys while in captivity.
Michael Devlin has received more than 70 life sentences so far.
Yay!
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“On the 21st of December, 2008, Michael Devlin was hit with an additional 170 years for making pornography of one of the boys while in captivity.”
What? Can you time travel?
admin – Yessss. Yessss we caaaaaan.
never saw a fag over 6 feet tall until now – die fucker
NEVER? You need to get out more. LOL.
70 life sentences?? WTF over? Just give the scum a noose and have done with it.
I know one of the admins works for depart of corrections and I would really hate to seem him out of work but damn. We need to get rid of all these scumbags.
Sorry guy but I do have a position open on my team. How about a job in IT?
Just think, you get to help pay (via taxes) for his room and board till he dies.
Ive said before that id be happier for my taxes to go towards the extra electricity it would take to fry the bastards.
I don’t. I live and work in Germany. We got our own shitheads here. Just most of em go to Thiland to rape kids.
Or they freaking go to Cambodia and bring back diseases for their wifes/girlfriends. Beat the shit out of one of those fuckers in one of my trips. Motherfucker has a four year old boy…Asswipes.
Mulch, I love it.
You know, the Germans conserved ammunition by sitting folks back-to-back and shooting a high powered round through the mouth of one victim. It penetrated both skulls leaving both a bloody heap of nothing. We need to be conservative like that, and line these POSbags up.
To hell with giving them the fast way out. We’re talking about $.22 per round. Screw that it’s too expensive. Hang em and let em rot in the jail yard. You can reuse a rope over and over.
Can someone please remind me why we ever did away with public hangings again? After reading this story I seem to have forgotten any reason at all.
It’s inHUMANE!
We can’t provide cruel and unusual punishment for the scumtards becayuse it viloates their civil rights. *puke*
Fuck that! Once they rape a little boy they have kidnapped, once they kidnap another boy as a sex slave, once they are convicted of SEVENTY life sentences, they have no rights anymore, IMO. They are no longer HUMAN, IMO.
Bring back fucking STONING, I say. Let the families of the victims help kill these fuckers, slowly and one rock at a time. Let the offended public have a hand in it.
Maybe, just maybe, that might be a deterrent to some of the bad-ass SOB’s who have no backbone, and can not resist whatever temptations their sick, evil, twisted minds come up with.
For, that is ultimately the whole problem. The criminals are weak bastards, who want what they want and want it NOW, and have never been taught how to restrain themselves.
I don’t know about you, but seventy life sentences? That is offensive to me. Just kill the fucker. Why waste the energy making some kind of “statement” of how bad the mofo is? Just kill him.
i like the idea of stoning him…… give the parents one stone for each day that they wondered where their son was…. to be nice he should be given a huge going away party with all of his prison friends, in one big room, private party of course, no guards.
Im loving the stoning idea Patti.
You know, this story is almost the same as that poor kid who went missing in the late 80′s, Steven Stayner! Kidnapped and held for, well, 7 years in Steven’s case but also helped (under duress obviously) to kidnap another boy…wonder if this goat fucking asshole got the idea from that git who took Steven?
Those guys in jail, please kill this garbage of human waste. Should not be allowed to breathe air. The good man who killed Jeffery Donma, let the inmates do the same. This guys is neck and neck with Hitler and Satan and his demons. This story got me so sick, how some lowly animal exists.
Justice would have been death for that sick fuck.