ABDUCTOR COULD BE MAN LURKING IN AREA WEEK BEFORE KIDNAPPING.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The kidnapper who snatched a 10-year-old boy away from his home may be the same man spotted lurking around this small town for a week before the abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. , police said Friday. Armed with new descriptions of the man from adult witnesses, police released a more detailed composite sketch as well Friday, showing a man with light-colored eyes, a trim mustache and well-defined cheekbones, wearing a baseball cap and a white T-shirt under a work shirt or jacket. They also released a description of the man's car - a white, four-door, compact-type car with California plates, a red pinstripe pin·stripe also pin stripe n. 1. A very thin stripe, especially on a fabric. 2. a. A fabric with very thin stripes, often used for suits. b. A suit made of such fabric. Often used in the plural. and no hubcaps. Anthony Michael Martinez was kidnapped at knifepoint knife·point n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. April 4 by a man who initially caught the child's attention by asking for help in finding a lost cat. Anthony was playing with friends and his little brother in the alley behind his house when he was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point . Initially, police had only descriptions from the children who escaped in creating a composite of the attacker. But since then, detectives have talked to adults in the neighborhood who saw a man of the same description in the hours and days before the 5 p.m. kidnapping. ``We talked to two witnesses two days ago ... and they put him in the city about 8:30 a.m. on Friday,'' said Lt. John Acosta. Those witnesses claimed to see the man at the local Yum Yum Donuts shop. Other residents recalled seeing a person with the same appearance in the neighborhood earlier that week, talking to children and walking a small German shepherd, Acosta said. Jannette Farni, who lives in the area, said a man who looks similar to the police sketch approached her son in the family back yard only hours before Anthony was kidnapped. He left when she and her mother came outside, she said. ``The man didn't say hello, nothing,'' she told KCBS-TV. ``He didn't look at us. He got up, turned and walked away. ``He looked just like the man in the flier,'' she said. KCBS KCBS Kansas City Barbecue Society KCBS Korea Christian Book Service (now called KCB; Seoul, Korea) KCBS Kerala Catholic Bible Society (Kerala, India) said its reporter talked to Farni and her mother, Janet Dean, after they had spoken with police. ``If we hadn't opened the door, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what would've happened,'' Dean said. |
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