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If you know anything about the 4 missing please contact:
Knox County Sheriffs Office: (740)397-3333
Detective Division of KCSO: (740)393-6800
2 kids & 2 adults are missing. Kody Maynard (10), Tina Herrmann (32) and Stephanie Sprang (41).

Sarah Maynard (13) - Rescued!


Please pray they find their way home safe & sound.

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Originally posted by: christee
49 Columbus Rd. Mount Vernon Home

orginally posted by: crocus
A - 481 King Beach Drive, Howard, OH Tina Hermann home
B - 13787 Magers Road, Howard, OH 43028 Stephanie Sprang home
C - 3730 Apple Valley Dr, Howard, OH 43028 Matt Hoffman Parents home
D - 9781 Laymon Road, Gambier, Ohio 43022 Hermann's truck found
E - 49 Columbus Rd, Mt. Vernon, OH 43050 Matt Hoffman home - Sarah Maynard found here
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11/12/2010
Endangered Child Advisory

INFORMATION AS OF 11/12/2010 04:00 PM.
CHILD: SARAH M MAYNARD - Rescued!
NICKNAME/ALIAS:
DOB: 4/1/1997 13 Yrs old
SEX: Female
RACE: White
HEIGHT: 5'0" WEIGHT: 90 lbs
HAIR: Blonde or Strawberry
EYES: Green
LAST SEEN DATE: 11/10/2010 12:00 AM at home at 481 King Beach Dr.
CHILD2: Kody A Maynard
NICKNAME/ALIAS:
DOB: 9/16/1999 11 Yrs old
SEX: Male
RACE: White
HEIGHT: 4'10" WEIGHT: 70 lbs
HAIR: Brown
EYES: Hazel
LAST SEEN DATE: 11/10/2010 04:00 PM at home at 481 King Beach Dr.
COMPANION: Stephanie L Sprang
NICKNAME/ALIAS:
DOB: 11/1/1969 41 Yrs old
SEX: Female
RACE: White
HEIGHT: 5'3" WEIGHT: 110 lbs
HAIR: Blonde or Strawberry, Shoulder
EYES: Green
Endangered Missing Child Advisory
(This is NOT an AMBER Alert)
COMPANION2: Tina R Herrmann
NICKNAME/ALIAS:
DOB: 2/13/1978 32 Yrs old
SEX: Female
RACE: White
HEIGHT: 5'6" WEIGHT: 122 lbs
HAIR: Sandy Blonde, Straight, Shoulder
EYES: Blue
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4 missing from Knox Co.
Authorities said a pickup belonging to a missing Knox County woman was found on the campus of Kenyon College late Thursday, prompting a lockdown.
Knox County Sheriff's deputies were searching for two women and two children, reported missing from an Apple Valley home on Thursday evening, 10TV News reported.
Tina Herrmann, 32, Stephanie Sprang, 41, and two children, Cody Manerd, 10, and Sarah Manerd, 13, were reported missing.
The relationship between the four was not immediately clear.
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4 people missing in Knox Co.; foul play suspected
Law-enforcement officials were searching a house last night in Knox County, and nearby Kenyon College had locked down its campus, because four people who have been reported missing are thought to be victims of foul play.
Deputies with the Knox County sheriff's office, along with agents for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, descended on the home at 481 King Beach Dr. last night.
The house is in the Apple Valley area of Howard Township. Kenyon College is about 7 miles away.
Knox County Sheriff David Barber told WBNS-TV (Channel 10) that Tina R. Herrmann, 32, and her friend Stephanie Spring, 41, along with Herrmann's children, Sarah Maynard, 13, and Kody Maynard, 10, were last seen Wednesday.
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Search continues for missing women,children
Investigators continued to search a Knox County home for evidence on Friday after two woman and two children disappeared.
Their disappearance prompted authorities to lock down Kenyon College on Thursday night, after one of the missing person's vehicles was found parked near campus, 10TV News reported.
Deputies were at Tina Herrmann's home on King Beach Drive since 5 p.m. Thursday. Herrmann, 32, and her two children, vanished on Wednesday, along with Herrmann's friend, Stephanie Sprang, 10TV's Jason Frazer reported.
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Blood found in home of missing women
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Knox County sheriff's deputies remain at a Howard home Friday, believing four missing people could be victims of foul play.
Authorities were searching for 32-year-old Tina Herrmann, her 13-year-old daughter, Sarah Maynard, and her 11-year-old son, Kody Maynard. Also missing was 41-year-old Stephanie Sprang, a friend with whom Herrmann was planning to get an apartment, said Greg Borders, who said he and Herrmann had recently ended a six-year relationship.
An endangered missing child advisory was issued for the children.
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11/13/2010
Barber updates community on search
Knox County Sheriff David Barber reported today his office has been receiving tips on the case of the four missing persons from Apple Valley
“We appreciate the efforts of the news media to get out the information about these four people being missing and publishing their pictures,” he said. “We have received some information. Any information we are receiving is being followed up by the detectives at this time. Evidence is continuing to be collected at the site. [Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation] is not here yet this morning but they will be back later on today.”
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Missing Ohio family prompts College lockdown search
Ohio police are searching for four missing people, including two children, whose alarming disappearance prompted an Ohio college to go on lockdown overnight as police warned of a "potentially dangerous person in the vicinity."
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Officials hope for lead as search for 4 goes on
At midday today, Knox County Sheriff David Barber still seemed hopeful that four people missing since Wednesday would be found alive.
"We are asking people to keep a guarded but optimistic attitude about how this case is going to unfold," he said. "We still hope for a positive outcome."
But as the sun began to set on the scene where investigators were swarming in the hills and woods of the rural countryside and the Howard Township homes of the missing, Barber had a slightly different tone.
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11/14/2010
Missing girl found safe; man charged with kidnapping
A 13-year-old girl missing for days was found bound and gagged but alive in a basement Sunday, and authorities hoped a man charged with kidnapping her might lead them to her mother, brother and another woman who disappeared with her.
Matthew J. Hoffman, 30, was arrested at his Mount Vernon home, where Sarah Maynard was found, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said. He said the girl was hospitalized in good condition but would give no details and did not say if she had been sexually abused.
Barber did not say what led investigators to Hoffman's home, a two-story house with tan siding and a large television antenna on the roof that is about 10 miles from the home of Sarah's family.
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Missing girl found safe;man in custody
A 13-year-old who was missing since Wednesday was found safe inside the basement of a home on Sunday morning.
Sarah Maynard was bound and gagged when authorities entered the house, located at 49 Columbus Rd., at about 8 a.m., Knox County Sheriff David Barber said.
Matthew J. Hoffman was taken into custody inside the home and was charged with one count of kidnapping. Additional charges were expected to be filed, Barber said.
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One of four Ohio missing found
The 13-year-old girl in a group of four people that went missing in Ohio last week was found alive and well today, but she had been held against her will, police said.
A SWAT team found Sarah Maynard bound and gagged in the basement of a home in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said at a news conference today.
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Ohio teen found; whereabouts of brother, mom friend unknown
Donna Davis, who lives on the same street as the home where the girl was found, told WBNS Hoffman was a "weirdo" and that she made her children come indoors when he was outside.
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Hoffman: Suspect in Knox County crimes had 2001 conviction in $2M Arson
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Matthew J. Hoffman is in custody in Knox County charged with kidnapping Sarah Maynard, who was found bound and gagged, but in good condition on Sunday morning.
Hoffman, who is 30, was convicted of an arson charge in Colorado and served time in prison on that conviction, according to Sheriff David Barber.
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Presser - Sunday November 14, 2010
 
Police block off park as Mount Vernon search continues
Police on Monday blocked off a park near a home where a teenage girl was found bound and gagged over the weekend.
Police apparently found items in Foundation Park that may be connected to the 13-year-old girl and three other people missing since Wednesday.
Investigators gathered evidence that filled a two-foot bag, 10TV's Tino Ramos reported.
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Cruisers block off Mt. Vernon Park; girl found alive; no word on 3 others
Police cruisers have blocked off Foundation Park, which is near a home where a 13-year-old girl was found bound and gagged and a man was arrested on Sunday. The whereabouts of her mother, brother and another woman remained a mystery, however.
Mount Vernon police Capt. George Hartz says an officer patrolling overnight found items in the park possibly related to the girl and the ongoing search for her missing mother, brother and another woman.
Hartz would not say what was found in the park. He says it's closed until a determination is made on whether it's a crime scene.
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Bags of evidence taken from Foundation Park

Mt. Vernon police officers have taken four bags of "possible evidence" from Foundation Park which is near suspect Matt Hoffman's house.
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Boats arrive at Mount Vernon Park
Ohio Division of Watercraft officials arrived at Mount Vernon's Foundation Park with boats about 10:40 a.m.
Mount Vernon police shut down the park for several hours this morning after an officer overnight reportedly found suspicious items there.
The park is a former gravel quarry that was turned into a recreation area by the city.
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Bond hearing expected today in Knox kidnapping case
A bond hearing is expected today for a man charged with kidnapping a 13-year-old Knox County girl who disappeared last week with her brother, her mother and her mother's friend.
Thirty-year-old Matthew Hoffman was arrested after Sarah Maynard was found bound and gagged in his Mount Vernon basement -- ten miles from her home.
Authorities are hoping Hoffman will provide information leading to the others.
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10tv site now has a red breaking news that implies there might be a news conference at 2:00 PM
 
3 missing people could be dead
The Knox County sheriff announced on Monday that a special tip line was established for information about three people who have been missing since last week.
Sheriff David Barber said that authorities want to remain optimistic that Tina Herrmann, 32; her son, Kody, 11; and a friend, Stephanie Sprang, 41, are alive.
Barber added that "there is a possibility" that the three were killed.
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Knox Co. Sheriff asks public for tips; 3 still missing
It's possible that the three people still missing in Central Ohio were killed, a sheriff conceded Monday, a day after the 13-year-old girl who disappeared along with them was rescued from the home of a man later charged with kidnapping.
Authorities want to remain optimistic that 32-year-old Tina Herrmann, her 10-year-old son, Kody, and Herrmann's friend, 41-year-old Stephanie Sprang, are alive, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said at a news conference.
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Sarah, 13, doing well; 3 others feared dead
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Maynard last saw her mother and brother alive last Wednesday, Knox County Sheriff David Barber revealed at a news briefing Monday afternoon.
Sarah's mother, Tina Herrmann, 32; brother, Kody Maynard 11; and her mother's friend, Stephanie Sprang, 41, have not been seen since, the sheriff said. At the briefing, Sheriff Barber said based on evidence and interviews, he feared they might be dead.
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Sheriff asks for public's help
A day after a missing 13-year-old girl was found alive, bound and gagged in an area man's basement, Knox County Sheriff David Barber asked for the public's help to find the three people who remain missing.
Sarah Maynard, 13, was expected to be released into the care of relatives. But still missing are Tina Herrmann, 32, Sarah's mother; Kody Maynard, 11, Sarah's brother; and Stephanie Sprang, 41, Herrmann's friend and neighbor.
Barber asked the public to think back and report any unusual activity they might have seen since Wednesday, the day the four disappeared.
"We need that information, something that just wasn't right," he said.
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Cars in Ohio lake lilely unrelated to 3 missing
Investigators say two cars found in a central Ohio lake are likely unrelated to a search for three people who remain missing a day after a 13-year-old girl who disappeared with them was found in a nearby home.
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Families still hopeful 3 will be found alive
Authorities and family members continued to hold out hope on Monday that three people still missing in Knox County will be found alive.
Optimism remained even after an afternoon news conference in which Knox County Sheriff David Barber offered the grim possibility that three people were dead.
More... SLIDESHOWS: Case Timeline | Park Search | Images From Mount Vernon Neighborhood | Four Missing | Search For Missing People | VIDEO EXTRA: Sheriff David Barber's Nov. 15 News Conference included...

Cadaver K-9's called to Mt. Vernon; Mom, Son, and Friend still missing
A Mount Vernon man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl found bound and gagged in a basement may have been watching her family beforehand, authorities said.
Matthew J. Hoffman even sat nearby last week as police recovered the missing family's truck, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said.
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Hope fading on fate of 3 missing in Knox County
The pack of news vans and the hum of helicopters overhead were grim reminders that three people were still missing in Knox County yesterday.
Despite the relief that 13-year-old Sarah Maynard was found alive in the basement of a home on Sunday, talk grew bleaker about the fate of the others who went missing when she did on Wednesday: Sarah's mother, Tina Herrmann, 32; her 11-year-old brother, Kody; and a family friend, Stephanie Sprang, 42.
"You need to be optimistic because there's no evidence. We haven't recovered a body," Knox County Sheriff David B. Barber said. "But we need to be realistic. There's a possibility that these folks are dead."
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Accused kidnapper may have spied on family
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Video - Mt. Vernon Vigil for missing people


Neighbors: Hoffman eccentric, troubled
A group of friends and neighbors, who gathered at the Columbus Road home of Donna Davis on Monday morning watched tearfully as helicopters continued to circle overhead. The large television is tuned to any breaking news which may bring word of the three people missing from an Apple Valley residence. The computer is carrying live feed of the same. They are waiting for any word about the three Apple Valley residents who remain missing.
Many in this group once considered 30-year-old Matthew Hoffman a friend. The tree trimmer who spent many hours out at his fire pit, was apprehended Sunday morning when Knox County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team members raided his home and rescued 13-year-old Sarah Maynard.
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Accused Ohio kidnapper raised suspicions with neighbors
The Ohio man arrested for kidnapping a 13-year-old girl and suspected in the disappearance of her family raised red flags with neighbors long before he was accused of terrorizing the teen and her family.
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Suspected kidnapper bought trash bags, t-shirts, tarps
Investigators have recovered significant pieces of evidence in connection with the kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl and the disappearance of two women and a boy, the Knox County Sheriff said on Tuesday.
Sheriff David Barber would not elaborate about what was recovered, 10TV News reported.
No one has seen or heard from Tina Herrmann, 32; her son, Kody, 11; and a friend, Stephanie Sprang, 41, since last Wednesday. More...
SLIDESHOWS: Vehicles Connected With Case | Hoffman In Court | Case Timeline | Tuesday's Search | Park Search | Images From Mount Vernon Neighborhood | Four Missing | Search For Missing People | VIDEO EXTRAS: Sheriff David Barber's No. 16 News Conference | Nov. 15 News Conference

$1M bond for Knox Co. suspect; sheriff asks for vehicle tips
A Mount Vernon man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl found bound and gagged in a basement appears via video from jail for a bond hearing Tuesday.
NBC 4's Patrick Preston attended Matthew J. Hoffman's bond hearing in Mount Vernon Municipal Court Tuesday afternoon.
Judge Paul Spurgeon gave Hoffman a $1 million bond.
He did not enter a plea, and Knox County Public Defender Bruce Malek was assigned his case.
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$1M bond for Hoffman, under suicide watch
Matthew Hoffman faces a $1 million bond for kidnapping 13-year-old Sarah Maynard. Shown wearing a suicide gown, Hoffman is also under suicide watch at the jail.
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Ohio suspect appears in court wearing suicide gown
Matthew Hoffman, the former convict accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl and eyed in the disappearance of her family, yawned when he appeared in an Ohio court today via video. As a safety precaution, the suspect was dressed in a "suicide gown."
The suspect did not enter a plea. He looked down through much of the hearing, even yawning at one point.

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Ohio Sheriff: "Significant Evidence"

Knox County Sheriff David Barber says investigators "have recovered significant evidence" in the search for clues in the disappearance of Tina Herrman, her friend Stephanie Sprang and Tina's 11 year-old son.
That evidence apparently includes a tarp and trash bags found closed with duct tape in Foundation Park in Mount Vernon, Ohio, across the street from the home of prime suspect Matthew Hoffman who police say had Herrman's 13 year-old daughter bound and gagged in his basement. Police also revealed Hoffman had a receipt from the nearby Wal-Mart for a tarp and trash bags, along with a t-shirt and deli sandwich.
The Sheriff is encouraging anyone who sees anything unusual, including trash bags, to call authorities and not touch the possible evidence. He's also asking people to call who may have seen any of the three vehicles involved in the missing persons case: Herrman's F-150 Ford Pickup, Sprang's silver Jeep Cherokee or Hoffman's Toyota Yaris compact.

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Search continues for missing trio

events
Sheriff Barber will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. Wednesday, November 17

Knox Co. search enters 7th day
As search efforts continue in Knox County for three people missing since last week, more details emerged about a man charged in connection with the case.
The mother of Matthew Hoffman said on Tuesday that she was hopeful that her son would include her on his jail visitation list and open up to her, 10TV's Ashleigh Barry reported.
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New information added into missing persons timeline
Knox County Sheriff David Barber talked to the media this afternoon, requesting continued help from the community to fill in the timeline of the activities which unfolded last Wednesday when 13-year-old Sarah Maynard was abducted from her Apple Valley home. The same day, Sarah’s mother Tina Herrmann, 31; brother, Kody Maynard, 11; and family friend Stephanie Sprang, 41, vanished.
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events
Sheriff Barber will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. Thusday, November 18
A floating candle vigil at King Beach, Apple Valley on Thursday, November 18 at 7:30 pm

Community stunned by events
The events of the past week involving the kidnapping and rescue of 13-year-old Sarah Maynard of Howard, and the continuing search for her brother, Kody Maynard, 11, mother, Tina Herrmann, 32, and family friend, Stephanie Sprang, 41, have left the Knox County community stunned. Mental health experts advise the circumstances have been stressing and traumatizing for the entire community, especially Knox County’s children.
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Sheriff: Reality 3 missing may be dead
Efforts to find a missing mother, her son and a family friend continue as the search enters a seventh day, but the Knox County Sheriff said on Wednesday that the chances of finding them alive are growing slimmer.
"The reality that these folks may not be alive is becoming more and more prevalent," Barber said during a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.
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No word, credit card or cell phone activity from 3 missing
A few dozen volunteers resumed the search for a mother, her 10-year-old son and her friend who have been missing for a week.
They disappeared along with the mother's 13-year-old daughter, Sarah Maynard, who was found Sunday bound and gagged in the basement of a home. The man who lives there, Matthew Hoffman, has been charged with kidnapping.
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Akron: Serial killer expert says Hoffman poses unique investigative challenge
An expert in serial killers believes Matthew Hoffman, charged with kidnapping and a suspect in the 3 mssing people near Mount Vernon, will be a unique challenge to police because his crime is so unusual.
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Kidnap suspect had area ties
A woman who lived next to the Knox County man charged with kidnapping a girl found gagged and bound in the basement of his home remembers that when his family was living in Bazetta, she had been leery of the teen.
Alice Morelli of Westlake Drive said Tuesday that there had been instances where Matthew Hoffman and other teens would hang out smoking and swearing beside her home and purposefully aggravate her dog, who according to Morelli, greatly disliked the disturbances caused by the boys.
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Sweatshirt among newly recovered Knox Co. evidence
Search efforts for three missing people continued in Knox County late Wednesday night, and investigators were examining new pieces of recovered evidence, including a blue sweatshirt.
One of the missing, Kody Maynard, was last seen wearing a similar piece of clothing, 10TV's Tino Ramos reported.
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Mystery continues, search expands
Knox County Sheriff David Barber talked to the media Tuesday afternoon, filling in few additional details regarding the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Apple Valley residents Tina Herrmann, 32, Tina’s son, Kody Maynard, 11, her friend, Stephanie Sprang, 41, and the abduction of Tina’s daughter, 13-year-old Sarah Maynard, who was rescued by law enforcement Sunday morning at the Columbus Road home of Matthew Hoffman, 30.
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Sheriff: 3 missing family members found dead
Three people who vanished from a blood-spattered home more than a week ago were found dead inside a hollow tree Thursday, days after the teenage daughter of one of the victims was rescued - bound and gagged - from an ex-convict's basement.
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Remains of women, 11 year old found
The bodies of three people who were missing for more than a week were found on Thursday in garbage bags located inside a hollow tree.
The discovery of Tina Herrmann, 32; her son, Kody Maynard, 11; and a friend, Stephanie Sprang, 41; was made at about 2:30 p.m. near the North Branch of the Kokosing River Lake, near Waterford Road in Fredericktown, Ohio, 10TV news reported.
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Bodies of missing boy, women found
Eight days after being reported missing, the bodies of a boy and two women have been found in a hollow tree in Knox County Thursday.
The bodies were found in the area of Yankee Street and Waterford Road northwest of Fredericktown, sources told NBC 4 Thursday.
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Abduction suspects attorneys led authorities to bodies
Matthew J. Hoffman's attorneys today told investigators where to find the bodies of three people missing for more than a week, leading them to a hollow tree in a state wilderness area.
The bodies of two women and an 11-year-old boy were found stuffed in a hollow tree in the Kokosing Lake Wildlife Area in northwestern Knox County, an area that had eluded a series of non-stop searches. White hearses headed into the area just before 5 p.m. today.
Sheriff David B. Barber said the bodies were found in garbage bags inside a hollow tree. Hoffman, 30, was a tree-trimmer with his own tree-climbing equipment.
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