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Missing Boy May Have Met With Tragedy

By JESSIE L. BONNER

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BOISE, Idaho (July 31) - Boise police investigators say new evidence suggests that an 8-year-old boy who has been missing for a week may have been the victim of a tragic event.

Police and FBI detectives Friday coordinated a massive search for Robert Manwill, who reportedly disappeared July 24 after leaving his mother's apartment on the southwest side of Idaho's capital city.

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Robert Manwill: His mother reported that the 8-year-old Idaho boy disappeared July 24 after leaving their apartment on the southwest side of Boise. Investigators said Friday that new evidence suggests the boy may have met with a tragic event.

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Early in the week, investigators said they had no evidence suggesting foul play.

But Deputy Chief Jim Kerns changed course Friday, saying new evidence recovered in a Thursday night search of the apartment of the boy's mother, Melissa Scott Jenkins, has detectives tracking new leads.

"The evidence we've uncovered shows that there are suspicious circumstances surrounding Robert's disappearance," Kerns said during a press conference. "Volunteers assisting in the search today are being given the information by search team officers that Robert may indeed be injured or the victim of a tragic event."

So far, police say there are no arrests or suspects in the case.

Jenkins has been at previous press conferences, but didn't attend Friday. Police wouldn't say where she was.

The boy was visiting her the night he disappeared. His father, Charles Manwill, has had custody since 2008 and lives in New Plymouth, about 45 miles northwest of Boise.

According to court records, Jenkins pleaded guilty in March to a misdemeanor charge of injury to a child following an October 2008 incident that fractured her infant son's skull. Jenkins "did willfully inflict" the injury to her other son "by striking the child's head on a surface, causing a fracture to the child's skull," on Oct. 19, 2008. She was sentenced to 29 days of work release, fined $75.50 and put on probation for two years, according to court documents.

That child is the son of Jenkins' boyfriend, Daniel Edward Ehrlick. The boy was in the care of the state Department of Health and Welfare through at least February, according to court documents.

Investigators were seen taking an SUV and other items during the search of Jenkins' apartment Thursday night.

Boise police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower said more than 1,000 volunteers showed up early Friday morning to help search, making it the biggest missing-person search in the city's history.

In the early days of the search, police were aided by the help of hundreds of volunteers who scanned neighborhoods surrounding the mother's apartment complex.

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Dixie59616

07:06 PMJul 31 2009

Type your own comment here CaliforniaNanc06:57 PMJul 31 2009Pjbl2223 06:51 PMJul 31 2009 What another wonderful mother! She gave birth to the children. God bless the Pro-Lifers and their work."I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE "PRO-LIFERS" HAD TO DO WITH THIS. PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR COMMENT?<<< I'll explain to you. It seams that this woman doesn't like children. She got pregnant, it would be better that she had an abortion instead of fracture their skulls once their are born!

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lowzone1

07:04 PMJul 31 2009

29 days, and 75.50.....WHOA!!!! thats a harsh penalty for smashing your kids skull....i would have said 75.00 would have been enough....where did she get the other .50 to cover such a HUGE expense.....children should have been removed immediately from that house.....Me and my wife would gladly helped raise one of the children, we have a 6yr old that would love a brother....

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Dixie59616

07:02 PMJul 31 2009

If she already brutalized a child, how come she even has the right of visit with this one?

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FS Eddy

07:00 PMJul 31 2009

Pjbl2223 06:51 PMJul 31 2009 What another wonderful mother! She gave birth to the children. God bless the Pro-Lifers and their work!----------------------------------------------------At least most of us pro-lifers aren't so pro life in dealing with parents who would kill their kids. We would have her executed if found guilty in a court of law. We aren't so much pro life as we are anti abortion, which would put you on the side of killing babies, much the same as the woman in the article.

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BDH829

06:57 PMJul 31 2009

save a child's life - mandatory sterilization

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CaliforniaNanc

06:57 PMJul 31 2009

Pjbl2223 06:51 PMJul 31 2009 What another wonderful mother! She gave birth to the children. God bless the Pro-Lifers and their work."I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE "PRO-LIFERS" HAD TO DO WITH THIS. PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR COMMENT?

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KarmaCzar1

06:53 PMJul 31 2009

The mother is a convicted CHILD ABUSER....I guarantee she's probably killed him and buried him somewhere...another Casey Anthony

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saljfaj

06:52 PMJul 31 2009

the father picked evil woman in his life in the past. God give this man wisdom and knowledge to protect his kids and do the same for all of us and bring back his little boy if his still alive

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PoohBearJoeCool

06:51 PMJul 31 2009

Take the low life *itch and throw her up against the wall and fracture her skull! If she lives, shoot her and make her suffer like those children did!

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Pjbl2223

06:51 PMJul 31 2009

What another wonderful mother! She gave birth to the children. God bless the Pro-Lifers and their work!

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