Robert Manwill 8, missing 7/24/09 Boise, Idaho (BODY FOUND)

[Leroy]

Thanks Pink! 

[pink angel]

this is devestating, it completely breaks my heart. i think that we all have that sick feeling in our hearts and stomach because we all know what the result of this case is going to be.  i try to be optimistic but i just don't think this is going to turn out well.  especially since part of the landfill has been blocked off and is being guarded. 

if the boyfriend was hospitalized and released it could be because he had an injury that could have occured during this crime if he's responsible, or another scenario could be that he had an anxiety attack or something along those lines...

i am so sad and disgusted right now. i pray robert gets the justice he deserves

I'm secretly hoping that the boyfriend was hospitalized because BPD whooped his a$$ in an attempt to get him to talk.

We can hope!

Sounds like the suspect in Sandra Cantu's murder, she was hospitalized just before she was arrested too!

[pink angel]

Thanks Pink! 

Thanks backtacha ya! My computer moaned the whole time.
Poor Frankinputer.

[Leroy]

There is a pic of the officer at the landfill here

http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/851769.html?pageNum=12&&&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container

[pink angel]

Thanks Leroy! 

WTF is wrong with people?  Did they not think that splitting the scull of the infant would be grounds to remove ALL THE CHILDREN????

I'm with you sunshine12, just beyond words.

Hi Lovin!  I agree...this so called mother shouldn't be allowed alone with children EVER.

All these children going missing is just unbelievable...and I cant understand parents allowing these kids to be out wandering the streets so late at night    

I agree. I don't think our little man Robert was out wandering the streets though. I think whatever happened....happened right there in his mom's apartment.

[Northern Rose]

Thanks Leroy. My computer and google maps don't like each other. If someone else could find a map, that would be great.

I'm not good with maps and would have no idea how to post the actual map...here is a link to the one I just did...maybe it will work???  I'll give it a whirl...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=2800+Cherry+Ln,+Boise,+Idaho+83705&daddr=10300+Seamans+Gulch+Rd,+Garden+City,+Ada,+Idaho+83714&hl=en&geocode=FYsBmQIdDa0S-Q%3B&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=43.641569,-116.238427&sspn=0.237023,0.44014&ie=UTF8&ll=43.633093,-116.207199&spn=0.237056,0.44014&t=h&z=11

Hope this helps

[pink angel]

Investigators at Ada County landfill

Story Updated: Jul 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM MDT
By KBCI Web Staff
BOISE - Authorities are currently at the Ada County landfill.

At this time, it's unclear whether this investigation is connected to the case of missing 8-year-old Robert Manwill.

A reporter on scene says an area of the landfill has been cordoned off. A deputy on scene says he was told by Boise Police to go to the landfill and "sit on some trash."

When asked whether the landfill investigation is connected to the missing boy, he said he couldn't confirm and referred any questions to Boise Police.

Stay tuned for details

http://www.2news.tv/news/local/52215662.html
 

[Leroy]

Thanks Leroy! 

WTF is wrong with people?  Did they not think that splitting the scull of the infant would be grounds to remove ALL THE CHILDREN????

I'm with you sunshine12, just beyond words.

Hi Lovin!  I agree...this so called mother shouldn't be allowed alone with children EVER.

All these children going missing is just unbelievable...and I cant understand parents allowing these kids to be out wandering the streets so late at night    

I agree. I don't think our little man Robert was out wandering the streets though. I think whatever happened....happened right there in his mom's apartment.

Yes, sadly I think you are right    

[pink angel]

Thank you Northern Rose! Much better than mine.


smooch!

[Northern Rose]

Thank you Northern Rose! Much better than mine.


smooch!

No thanks needed, we all work together for these precious children.  Hugs!

[Northern Rose]

from Twitter:

nwoidaho: #FindRobert BPD are telling searchers to look for the body of Robert Manwill. Landfill is place of interest right now...
6 minutes ago from TweetDeck

ppaluigi: Just finished volunteer search for missing Robert Manwill. Events don't look good. Just pray he's ok.
31 minutes ago from web

[Northern Rose]

More from Twitter and I am Praying they are wrong:

RT @hooker1033: Heartbreaking! RT @janabriggs: Mom and bf are in custody. Officer confirmed foul play. We're being told to look for a body.
23 minutes ago from TweetDeck

@hooker1033 #FindRobert I sure hope that last tweet was just rumor. I just hate this.
22 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to hooker1033

#FindRobert RT @KBOI670 Ada County Sheriff's Deputy is guarding part of the Ada County Landfill at the request of Boise Police.
12 minutes ago from TweetDeck

[pink angel]

screen caps of the searchers and of the search going on today at the apartment, where they have brought in a u-haul for evidence.

[Northern Rose]

Here are tweets from one of the searchers that is there right now:

@Fox12nizdizzle we are scouring the area behind murphy's steakhouse. From Denver to Rossi then west to Boise Ave. Nada yet #findRobert
less than 10 seconds ago from TwitterBerry   

  I have to say I'm impressed w/ the folks on my shift. Such a diverse group of ppl from all walks of life coming together. #findRobert @ktvb
2 minutes ago from TwitterBerry   

  Officer says next focus will be on foothills and desert. #findRobert @ktvb
15 minutes ago from TwitterBerry 
 
  Here we go. #findRobert
41 minutes ago from TwitterBerry   

  Mom and bf are in custody. Officer confirmed foul play. We're being told to look for a body. #findRobert @ktvb
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry   

  We're being told to watch for smells. I won't give u the details.
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry   

  Wow, can't believe how many people are here at Garfield. So many more are pouring in. They're not turning folks away yet. Get your butt here
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry   

  There's about 100 ppl here. #findRobert
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry   

  Lots of folks r showing up @ garfield. #findRobert
about 2 hours ago from TwitterBerry   

  45 mins until the next shift begins. Meet me at Garfield Elem (Boise Ave/Broadway)! #findRobert
about 2 hours ago from TwitterBerry

[pink angel]

Search for missing Boise boy takes grim turn
By JESSIE L. BONNER - Associated Press Writer
Published: 07/31/09

BOISE, Idaho — A Boise search for a missing 8-year-old took a grim turn as police suggested he may be hurt - or worse - and searched the apartment of his mother, who has a history of harming another child.

Police and FBI detectives Friday coordinated more than 1,500 volunteers in a massive search for Robert Manwill, who reportedly disappeared July 24 after leaving his mother's apartment on the southwest side of Idaho's capitol city.

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

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.

Court records show a history of family tragedies involving young children.

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. The agency will not release his whereabouts, citing policy.

Jenkins has a third child, a 2-year-old daughter fathered by a third man, who has custody of her. Jenkins has visitation rights. Ehrlick, who has been convicted of burglary, battery and possession of drug paraphernalia, is banned from being alone with the girl, but court documents don't say why.

In another case, Charles Manwill's former wife stabbed their 4-year-old son, Michael, in the chest in 1993, killing him. Silke Fatma Manwill pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, was sentenced to federal prison and released in 2002.

Charles Manwill was among family members who flanked chief Kerns as he spoke to reporters Friday.

"We want everyone not to give up hope," said Trisha Burrill, the boy's aunt. "Please help us bring Robert home."

Boise police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower said volunteers on Friday covered a 1 1/2-mile to 2-mile radius around the scene where the boy was reported missing.

The search is believed to be the biggest attempt to find a missing person in the city's history, Hightower said.

Boise Police Department Sgt. P.D. Burch supervised a volunteer post at South Junior High School, and said 200 volunteers from New Plymouth, where the boy was supposed to enroll in third grade next month, were being bused to Boise to help in the search.

Family members gathered under a tent at the edge of the high school football field, where a 31-year-old mother of two from Meridian approached the group and asked if she could bring them lunch.

"We wanted to do something," said Randee Fratto, who walked away clutching her 4-month-old daughter, Olivia, and a handful of missing posters with pictures of Robert Manwill wearing a shy smile.

"It breaks your heart," Fratto said. "It makes you want to hug your babies and never let go

http://www.idahostatesman.com/531/story/852051.html

[pink angel]

I doubt the one about the mom and BF in custody. They wouldn't tell searchers without telling the media first. jmo

They were told to they are looking for evidence such as clothes, blood, a hurt little boy or perhaps a dead little boy. To pay attention to any foul smells. That was just on the Channel 2 news.

[islandmonkey]

Thanks Leroy! 

WTF is wrong with people?  Did they not think that splitting the scull of the infant would be grounds to remove ALL THE CHILDREN????

I'm with you sunshine12, just beyond words.

Hi Lovin!  I agree...this so called mother shouldn't be allowed alone with children EVER.

All these children going missing is just unbelievable...and I cant understand parents allowing these kids to be out wandering the streets so late at night    

Ditto on both Why the hell didn't they remove all the kids.hello, if she'll fracture the skull of an infant, there is no telling what she is capable of. I'm sick in my heart~all these missing children, so many murdered at the hands of their parent while loving couples who can't have kids would be better suited for these children........

[Northern Rose]

from Twitter:

janabriggs: Magic 93 is reporting a section of landfill at Hollow something has been cordoned off. #findRobert
1 minute ago from TwitterBerry   
 

[no rose colored glasses]

There is just not much to say, I'm just shaking my head wondering why this mother was allowed to even have visits unsupervised with Robert? Thanks for all the updates.

[klaasend]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535914,00.html



Missing Idaho Boy's Disappearance 'Suspicious,' Police Say
Friday , July 31, 2009

Police investigating the disappearance of an Idaho boy missing for a week said Friday they are afraid the child may have been the victim of a tragedy.

Boise authorities told reporters that there are "suspicious circumstances" surrounding 8-year-old Robert Manwill's disappearance.

"Robert may be injured or be the victim of a tragic event," said Boise Police Chief Jim Kerns at a brief Friday press conference. "But he is still missing."

Earlier this week, news emerged that Robert's mother is on probation for fracturing the skull of the missing boy's infant half brother, who was removed from her custody by the state.

Robert was last seen near the Boise apartment of his mother, Melissa Scott Jenkins. Police detectives, FBI agents and more than 100 volunteers have searched extensively, but haven't found him.

Boise police have previously said there is no evidence of foul play in the disappearance of Robert, and that the family is cooperating fully.

The missing boy's father, Charles Manwill, has had custody of him since 2008. Jenkins has visitation rights, and the boy was visiting her the night he disappeared.

Court records show a history of family tragedies involving children.

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, according to The Idaho Statesman.

Court records say 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.

The child is the son of Jenkins' boyfriend, Daniel Edward Ehrlick, and was in the care of the state Department of Health and Welfare through at least February, according to court documents. The agency on Wednesday would not release his whereabouts, citing policy.

Jenkins has a third child, a 2 1/2-year-old daughter, fathered by a third man, who has custody of her. Jenkins has visitation rights. Ehrlick, who has been convicted of burglary, battery and possession of drug paraphernalia, is banned from being alone with the girl, but court documents don't say why.

In another case, Charles Manwill's wife, Silke Fatma Manwill, stabbed their 4-year-old son, Michael, in the chest in 1993, killing him. She was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and was released in 2002.

Meanwhile, Jenkins has declined to comment on her son Robert's disappearance.

"We are a joined family at this time in this crisis," said Trisha Burrill, Robert Manwill's aunt. "We are acting as one, with one goal in mind. To bring Robert back."