Tuesday, November 02, 1999
Is note a hoax or call for aid?
Police check for missing boy
BY JANICE MORSE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MONROE — A note left on a napkin at a Burger King restaurant may have been a Halloween hoax, but it also could describe a real-life crime.
As a result of the note, discovered Saturday afternoon at the restaurant at 1275 Hamilton-Lebanon Road, police here are investigating whether a man kidnapped an 11-year-old boy and was holding him against his will, said Monroe Police Capt. Tom Bishop.
The note was found at a vacant table along with the remains of a kid's meal and an adult meal, a police report says.
The note claimed to have been written by a boy named Clayton Shaw, who was asking for help. The note said the boy was 11 years old and was being held by a man who was 6-foot-2 with dark trimmed hair, driving an old gray car. The note, however, made no reference to where the boy was from and also didn't say whether he had been harmed.
Capt. Bishop said the closing line of the note, “this is serious,” led him to doubt the note's credibility. No one at the restaurant could remember anything about a tall man and a boy, the report says.
“But that doesn't mean we're going to stop,” he said.
Police sent out alerts locally and nationally, and did hear about a youth named Clayton Shaw in Mill Creek, Wash. But that boy's whereabouts had been accounted for, Capt. Bishop said.
Police also heard from a news reporter in Shreveport, La., who said that Shreveport police on Oct. 15 had received a call from a motorist who described seeing a man with a “frantic” child in an old gray Mazda.
“The motorist attempted to get close to the vehicle and the male subject appeared to be trying to keep the child down, and then he sped off at a high rate of speed,” a police report says.
Anyone with information is asked to call Monroe police at (800) 392-5865.
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