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When he was working as a manager at Imo\\u2019s Pizza, Michael Devlin put up a pretty good front. He was personable. Well read. Friendly. But back at his apartment, Michael was a different man. He was rude and quiet. His son, Shawn, appeared to have adopted Michael\\u2019s habits. Neighbors said they never saw Shawn smile. But what they didn\\u2019t know was that Shawn wasn\\u2019t really Michael\\u2019s son. His name wasn\\u2019t even Shawn Devlin. It was Shawn Hornbeck. But the truth wouldn\\u2019t come out until much later, when another boy, Ben Ownby, went missing.\\xa0

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Then Brandi tells us about a kidnapping that shook Long Island, New York. It was July 4, 1956. Betty Weinberger\\u2019s one-month-old infant, Peter, fell asleep in his carriage on the patio. As the little boy slept, Betty went inside the house. When she came back out a few minutes later, her baby boy was gone. Betty\\u2019s husband later found a ransom note at the scene. In it, the kidnapper demanded $2,000 in exchange for the baby. The kidnapper warned the Weinbergers not to involve the police, but the couple felt they had no choice.\\xa0

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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

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\\u201cMonster next door?\\u201d by Malcolm Gay for the Riverfront Times

\\u201cOne search, two boys found: The Missouri miracle 14 years ago,\\u201d by Tim O\\u2019Neil for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

\\u201cMichael Devlin stabbed in prison with \\u2018ice pick,\\u2019\\u201d by Todd Frankel for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

\\u201cI am still too scared to tell my mom and dad, \\u2018kidnap\\u2019 creep admits,\\u201d by Susannah Cahalan for the New York Post

\\u201cShawn Hornbeck,\\u201d Crime Museum

\\u201cMIchael J. Devlin,\\u201d entry on Wikipedia

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\\u201cHeld for Ransom\\u201d by Michael Dorman

\\u201cMark of a Murderer\\u201d by Mike McAlary, Esquire

\\u201cJUSTICE STORY: Tragic kidnapping of Long Island infant shattered two young families\\u201d by Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News

\\u201cWeinberger Kidnapping\\u201d FBI.gov\\n

\\u201cVincent LaMarca\\u201d wikipedia.org\\n

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