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...Devlin started out as a delivery boy before slowly ascending to assistant manager, making $20,000 a year. He regularly delivered pizzas to the Kirkwood police station, which sits just a few hundred feet from the pizzeria's back door. He tended to be chatty, seemingly able to talk from the start of the workday till its end. A lot of the time, the subject was video games; but he was a loner. No one ever heard him talk about dates or romances. So everyone assumed he played the games alone. Now, they suspect that, for the last four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kidnapping Suspect: "A Big Friendly Marshmallow" | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

...TIME reported, police stopped Shawn Hornbeck on at least one occasion but no one figured he was the kid missing from back in 2002. There were flyers about him nearby. For example, one was attached to a bench at a Schnuck's grocery store less than a mile from Devlin's home. It showed a photo of Shawn when he was kidnapped at the age of 11 and an artist's rendition of what he might look like now. "It's just amazing how those kids could be right here living among us and nobody knew," says Carol Michels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kidnapping Suspect: "A Big Friendly Marshmallow" | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

...that Shawn Hornbeck was quiet. He is a fan of Insane Clown Posse, a group that performs in clownface and is most notable for picking fights with whomever they can bait into paying attention to them, including Eminem. Harry Richard, 33, was a neighbor of Devlin and also a big fan of the horrorcore music of Insane Clown Posse. Richard, who often wears Posse t-shirts, says he would frequently hear the band's music blasted during the day from the apartment below, when Devlin would be at work at the pizza shop. "Over the past six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kidnapping Suspect: "A Big Friendly Marshmallow" | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

...other kids in the neighborhood but never seemed to be with them when they headed off to school. Says neighbor Alma Rodriguez: "He was a skater-kind of kid, who didn't speak to anyone." Rodriguez, who lives in a two-bedroom apartment across the tiny green lawn from Devlin's apartment with her husband and two small children, said she never saw Shawn leave in the morning for school. "I didn't think about it at the time, but now I guess it is odd." Both Rodriguez and Richards recall a more irritable Devlin, not the "marshmallow" that friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kidnapping Suspect: "A Big Friendly Marshmallow" | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

...taking of Ben Ownby, 13, proved to be Devlin's undoing. A detailed description of his Nissan by a friend of Ownby's quickly led police to Kirkwood. On Thursday, Devlin who had just returned from what he said were a couple of days off due to illness, had been chatting up a visiting police captain, talking about how to use a bow and arrow to fish. "He was just as calm as can be," says Michael Prosperi, Devlin's employer. By Friday, however, Devlin had been called in for questioning. Just about when that happened, Prosperi said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kidnapping Suspect: "A Big Friendly Marshmallow" | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

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