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Missouri Miracle

It's no secret I'm a huge sucker for Cold Case Files and Forensic Files and any sort of files having to do with murder, mayhem and missing persons. I watch and read because I'm always holding out hope that the good guys will get the bad guys and, hopefully, the victims will get justice. In a few cases, the victims actually get to go home safe to their families.

That's why I'm gripped by the story out of Missouri of the two teenage boys who were found after being kidnapped ... one four days earlier and one four YEARS earlier. It reminds me a little of the Elizabeth Smart case, where the little Mormon girl kidnapped from her bedroom one night was found months later under the control of some religious zealot. These kids were taken by force from their daily lives and forced to endure good God only knows what -- and really, I don't want to know -- and now they're back with their families. The boys will be on Oprah today. Smart's a student at BYU. Life goes on. I guess. But how would you ever recover from trauma like that.

In the case of Shawn Hornbeck, now 15 (11 when he was taken), my heart breaks. I see his pictures on the news, with his big eyes and shy smile, and hope to hell he's not ruined forever.

I hesitate to even mention this, but I will, just in case someone out there gets a concussion and accidentally, in the midst of the agonizing pain, watches Bill O'Reilly. This moron and pathetically poor excuse for a news person (although it's FOX News so he fits right in) actually had the nerve to say he didn't believe Shawn's story, that he thinks Shawn wasn't kidnapped and was just out there having a good old time, not going to school and playing video games and doing whatever he wants. He claimed that Stockholm Syndrome (when a kidnap victim develops some sort of connection or bond with a captor out of a sheer need to survive) doesn't exist and said that because he taught high school in the early '70s for two years, he knows kids.

Made me want to vomit. Someone needs to kidnap and torture him for a while, see how he likes it. (They could take Ann Coulter along for the ride, too.) Hey, O'Moron, what happened to "We report, you decide."? No spin zone ... try no fact zone.

At any rate, I don't know what Shawn and Ben, and there could be others, went through. It doesn't matter as long as their captor is in his orange jumpsuit behind bars and stays that way forever, and their families give them the love and caring, medical resources and space they need to somehow deal with it all.

I'm just thrilled they're home.

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