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Someone
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Missing
Person Report From Milwaukee, WI |
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Found Deceased 4-14-06
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Quadrevion Henning |
Purvis Virginia Parker |
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April 6th -
Weeks Later, No Sign Of Wis. Boys Who Vanished
Milwaukee Brewers Help With Search Efforts
POSTED: 10:36 am MDT April 6, 2006
UPDATED: 10:58 am MDT April 6, 2006
MILWAUKEE -- A candlelight prayer vigil is scheduled for Thursday night in Milwaukee for the city's missing children.
It is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Peace Lutheran Church on North 51st Street.
The service comes amidst the search for two missing Milwaukee boys. Purvis Parker, 11, and Quadrevion Henning, 12, have been missing since March 19.
The Milwaukee Brewers are also helping out with the search. The boys' pictures are being shown before and during games at Miller Park. The pictures will also appear outside on the Miller Park's lighted billboard along Interstate 94. On Friday and Saturday Brewers' fans who come to the games will find fliers on their cars with the boys' pictures on them.
NAACP volunteers are handing out the fliers.
Meanwhile, investigators are taking a closer look into the families the boys. Investigators are retracing family members' original stories when the boys first disappeared.
They are also checking family interviews with the media.
Milwaukee police said Monday that they were pulling back their mobile command units which have been used to search for the boys.
Police still have no idea what happened to them.
"We're consolidating all of our operations at the emergency operations center. We don't want anyone in the neighborhood to get the impression or have the idea that we are moving our operations out of there, that we're backing off on the search. That's certainly not the case," Milwaukee Police Department public relations manager Anne Schwartz said.
Milwaukee police and members of the U.S. Army Reserve searched an 11-mile stretch of the Menomonee River Parkway Sunday.
Henning goes to Labrew Troopers Military Academy and wants to be in the Army.
That is partly why the military got involved in the search.
Police said they still have little to go on. Deputy Chief Brian O'Keefe said said they removed computers from the boys' homes Wednesday to see if there was any e-mail activity that could lead them to the boys.
The reward fund is now up near $60,000.
If you have any information about the missing boys call the tip line at (877) 628-3804.
April 11th -
Search For Missing Milwaukee Boys Enters Fourth Week
Family Working To Keep Search Going
MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- The search for two missing Milwaukee boys is entering its fourth week.
The boys' families are keeping busy trying to keep the case in the public eye.
Family members want the faces of Purvis Virginia Parker and Quadrevion Henning everywhere.
This week, the boys' pictures are posted in Auto Mart Magazine.
Volunteers spent the weekend tying white ribbons around trees throughout Milwaukee. They said the ribbons are a sign of support for the families and a sign of hope the boys will return home safely.
"It's very frustrating. We want nothing better than to bring the boys home tomorrow and bring them back to their families," said Milwaukee Police Chief Nan Haggerty in an interview on Monday. "It's frustrating. We've pulled out all the stops doing everything we possibly can."
A benefit concert, held over the weekend, raised roughly $4,000 in reward money. As of Monday night, a total of more than $63,000 is being offered for anyone providing information about the boys' whereabouts. The money is split between four different reward funds.
Crowd in solidarity with families of missing boys
800 bought tickets to reward fund show
In front of a crowd of children about the same age as the missing Quadrevion Henning and Purvis Virginia Parker, a parade of singers, ministers and disc jockeys Saturday night urged anyone who knows anything about the boys to contact police.
"We used to think snitches get stitches," said Bernie Pavone, who brought his 22-month-old son, Julian, from Detroit to play drums for the crowd. "But no, snitches get rewards."
The Riverside Theater show, organized by Dennis Frazier, Quadrevion's uncle, came after yet another day of fruitless searching for the missing boys. Purvis, 11, and Quadrevion, 12, disappeared from their homes near N. 53rd St. and W. Hampton Ave. March 19 without money or means to survive away from home.
Today marks the beginning of the fourth week without any sign of the pair.
Melvin Hood, a minister who has Sunday morning radio show on WKKV-FM (100.7) urged the crowd to ask God for something supernatural.
"We ask that you perform a miracle, right here in the City of Milwaukee," Hood said. "Touch the Parker family, Father. Touch the Henning family, dispatch angels of protection, Father. Hallelujah!"
Frazier said 800 people bought $5 tickets to attend the show. He said the night's take, which included cash from Milwaukee Bucks tickets and autographed Bucks items that were auctioned off, would net the Henning Parker Reward Fund just over $4,000.
Several of the acts performed songs specially written for the missing boys or wore T-shirts bearing photographs of the pair. Quinlan "Mo' Styles" Bishop performed "Come Home," a song written to help find the boys that has been in rotation on local radio.
The song asks that anyone with information about the boys come forward. It then appeals to a higher power.
"God have you heard us," sang Bishop, who wore a T-shirt with the boys' photographs and the words "Come Home" in large letters.
Many in the crowd said they had a connection to the missing boys or the boys' relatives. Patricia Willford's 12-year-old son, Michael, was friends with Purvis last summer when the two boys played during the break from school.
Willford, who sat before the show with her 1-year-old son Amir, said she is holding out hope that the boys will be found.
"I'm here to support Purvis and Quadrevion," she said. "I hope they come home safe."
April 14th - 2006
MILWAUKEE - Two boys missing for almost a month apparently drowned in an icy park lagoon near where they were last seen, and authorities said Saturday foul play was not suspected.
Purvis Virginia Parker, 11, and Quadrevion Henning, 12, disappeared the afternoon of March 19 after they asked Quadrevion's grandfather whether they could play basketball at the nearby park.
The bodies were found in the park lagoon on Friday.
"It's my son," Purvis' mother, Angela Virginia, told The Associated Press by phone. She later told WTMJ-TV that she was now at ease because all she had wanted was closure.
"I got what I asked for because I have to go on from here," Virginia said.
Police Chief Nan Hegerty speculated Purvis, who could not swim, fell in first, and Quadrevion, who was a strong swimmer, tried to save him.
She did not guess why the boys went near the lagoon, which was partially covered with ice when they disappeared, and said the investigation is closed unless someone came forward with new information.
"There was no evidence of any injury or any foul play," said Milwaukee County medical examiner Jeffrey Jentzen. "The bodies appeared to be in conditions that were consistent with having been submerged since the time they'd been missing."
Jentzen said the children could have lost consciousness immediately in the cold water.
"That makes it kind of nice for the family that they weren't held against their own will," said Quadrevion's uncle, Dennis Frazier.
The first of the two bodies was found about 7:30 p.m. Friday after a man and his son walking in the park saw something floating, Hegerty said.
Police and Fire Department divers found the second body around 10 p.m. Both bodies were fully clothed.
After the boys' disappearance, police and volunteers searched the neighborhood, posted leaflets around the city and made repeated appeals for information anyone might have.
On March 23, divers searched the large lagoon, which was as deep as 20 feet, but because of the muddy bottom, it was possible the bodies could have been missed in a search, Hegerty said.
The boys' families had said the two had no history of running away and had good school attendance records, and police fielded hundreds of calls on a tip line offering possible leads.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who spoke with family members Saturday, said they used the word "closure" with the day's events.
"The uncertainty is horrible, and there is no happy ending," he said.
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