Remains May Be of Kids Missing Since '04

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Remains May Be of Kids Missing Since '04
By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER – 1 hour ago

SUGAR CREEK, Mo. (AP) — Police looking for two children missing since 2004 found a shallow grave Sunday containing human bones, and the children's mother said she had been told they were likely the remains of her son and daughter.

Tina Porter told the Kansas City Star that Independence police officers arrived at her house Sunday morning to tell her that they had found the remains of her children, Sam and Lindsey Porter, in the woods in Sugar Creek, about eight miles from Kansas City.

"Maj. (Gregg) Wilkinson said they were 99 percent sure that it was Sam and Lindsey," she told the newspaper.

"It was like watching a movie," she said. "I saw the police cars drive up, and my first thought was that they were coming to tell me they'd found Sam and Lindsey alive. I feel so sick. It just doesn't seem real."



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Posted on Sun, Sep. 09, 2007 06:53 PM
Remains may be missing Porter children
By JUDY THOMAS The Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star

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Dan Porter, 44, was convicted in February 2006 of parental kidnapping with the intent to terrorize his ex-wife and sentenced to 38 years in prison.

After his arrest on the kidnapping charges, Porter told authorities several stories about what he had done with his children, including that he had cut them up and that he had strangled them.

In a letter to Tina Porter, however, he wrote that the children were in a wonderful place.

“When they come home,” he wrote, “it’ll be because somebody in the public spots them. But they’re having a childhood that you and I can only dream of.”
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http://www.kansascity.com/679/story/267668.html

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http://www.kansascity.com/604/gallery/267778.html

[hobbit709]

1. If it's them, he's now looking at murder charges.

I can think of a "wonderful place" to send him.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. He is already in prison for a really long time

He will never get out now.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. This is one of the saddest stories ever

A friend of mine taught at the school Sam and Lindsey went to. It is a small elementary school where every teacher knows every kid. She said the kids and teachers cried every day for months after these kids disappeared.

[wisteria]

4. I will never comprehend how a person could harm their own children for revenge or any reason. n/t

[Witchy_Dem]

5. or any child if you think about it.

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[shenmue]

6. Very sad

I'm glad they already got him. People who hurt kids don't last long in prison.

[catmandu57]

7. At least she'll know what happened to them now

It sucks big green ones that someone could do this to their children for whatever reason. I hope she can find her way to peace.