A missing Thornton teenager was found dead Thursday in Boulder, his pastor confirmed.

Kim Skattum, senior pastor of the Crossroads Church’s Northglenn Campus, said a prayer vigil was held Thursday night for Kaedon Anderle, who had been missing since Wednesday.

Skattum did not know where in Boulder the teenager’s body had been found, but said police were investigating.

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“He was a straight-up great kid,” Skattum said. “He loved people and people loved him.”

Anderle was described by Skattum as a kind-hearted young man who was an athlete and musician.

Anderle attended Horizon High School. Many of his schoolmates attended the prayer vigil, Skattum said.

“It’s just so sad,” he said.

The Boulder County Corner’s Office said in short news release that the body of a 17-year-old male had been found Thursday near the intersection of 6th Street and Baseline Road, but refused to release any more information. Boulder police confirmed that the death was under investigation.

Thornton police confirmed a missing person’s report had been filed for Anderle on Wednesday, but declined to comment further.

A missing person poster on the church Facebook page said the teenager was last seen leaving the East Lake Post Office and headed toward a bank at East 120th Avenue and Colorado early Wednesday afternoon, but never made it to the bank.

Police are asking the public’s help in locating a wanted person and a missing child.

Cove police are searching for 2-year-old Milania Jade Myers. Milania was taken from her grandparents, who have custody, by her mother, Katherine Ann Myers, on Wednesday.

Police said Myers was traveling to the Dallas/Fort Worth area, but her mode of transportation was unknown.

Anyone with information about Milania or Katherine Myers is asked to contact their local police department.

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Milania has brown eyes and black hair.

Katherine Myers is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown hair.

Contact Detective Gary Tomblin at 254-547-8222, ext. 6895, or gtomblin@copperascovetx.gov.

Police in Texas have located a missing, well-known Floyd County lawyer.

Friends and family said they were concerned Clyde Johnson was dead when he mysteriously disappeared in June. He bought a camper and told his secretary he was going fishing for a few days, then never came back.

According to the Herald-Leader, police found Johnson alive and well, staying at a camp ground in Port O’Connor, Texas, along the Gulf of Mexico north of Corpus Christi.

Last August, Johnson’s friend, Ned Pillersdorf, said he had cell phone evidence that the prominent attorney was moving around in Texas and thought he didn’t want anybody to find him. According to the Herald-Leader report, police told Pillersdorf that when officers approached Clyde in Texas, he told them he was fine and to leave him alone.

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Pillersdorf had access to Johnson’s mail and email because a judge appointed him to handle his friend’s clients, and pieced together scraps of info leading police to Texas. He told the Herald-Leader Johnson pulled “a Jimmy Buffet.”

“Sometimes people just get tired of dealing with the unadulterated crap and sail away,” Pillersdorf told the paper.

On Thursday night there was a big break in a Knott County murder investigation.

Kentucky State Police arrested 37-year-old Gary Ward, of Johnson County, for the murder of Christina Barnett.

Earlier this month, a Knott County Grand Jury heard evidence from state police and issued a warrant for Ward.

Ward is charged with murder, evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse. Friday marks one month since Barnett’s body was found under a pile of trash in some Knott County Woods by her sister and some friends.

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Barnett’s mother, Donna Hale, said she believes Ward is the man her daughter met online. “He’s been arrested now and everyone is going to know he is the monster that killed my little girl, and it’s a relief,” said Hale.

As of Thursday night Ward was being held in the Kentucky River Regional Jail in Hazard.

Human remains found by the Interstate 480 overpass near a Council Bluffs park two weeks ago have been identified as an Omaha man who disappeared two years ago.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said Thursday dental records were used to identify 21-year-old Chance Fletcher, last seen alive on December 15, 2011 during a police chase.

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Fletcher was driving a stolen car when a Carter Lake officer attempted to pull him over. The pursuit ended in Council Bluffs near the I-480 overpass where Fletcher wrecked the car before running from the scene. Council Bluffs police, the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Department and Omaha police searched for Fletcher that night without success.

The Omaha Police Department’s Missing Person’s Unit was investigating cold cases when they coordinated a search of the area on October 11th with the assistance of the Council Bluffs Police Department. The skeletal remains were located in a drainage ditch adjacent to the location Fletcher was last seen running from.

The discovery came as a surprise. “I probably walk that way three or four times a week at least, that same path,” said Michael Barrett. Every week Barrett sees the same scenery on his walks near the river. “Even just now you get kind of a chill. You just think somebody who had a life was there.”

Officials in Rockcastle County have released the names of the people involved in a four-vehicle crash Thursday morning that left one person dead than two others injured.

The Rockcastle County coroner says the accident happened at the intersection of US 150 and Dug Hill Road, near Brodhead, around 6 a.m.

State police determined that a 2009 Toyota Corolla driven by Gregory S. Fulton, 50, of London was traveling westbound on US 150 when it struck a 2005 Chevrolet Colorado,in the rear that was driven by Timothy E. Taylor, 50, of Mount Vernon. After the initial impact, Taylor’s vehicle traveled over into the eastbound lane were it was struck a second time by a 1997 Toyota Tacoma pickup traveling being driven eastbound by Rena M. Hopkins, 46, of Crab Orchard. After the second impact, Taylor was once again struck for a third time by a 1994 Chevrolet Tracker driven by Paul D. Kidwell, 52, of Brodhead.

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Taylor was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the collision and was ejected from his vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Rockcastle County Coroners Office.

Hopkins was not wearing a seat belt and was flown to the University of Kentucky Medical Center for treatment of her injuries. Kidwell was wearing a seat belt, and and was flown to the University of Kentucky Medical Center for treatment. Fulton was wearing a seat belt at the time of the collision and was uninjured.

A grief stricken daughter says someone stole her parents’ wedding rings from their Lexington grave.

Connie Smith promised her father she’d bring roses to her step-mother’s grave every Valentine’s Day. But when she took the flowers to the Lexington Cemetery this year, she discovered a thief had stolen her parents wedding rings that were kept with their remains. Smith last saw the rings around the first of the year, but a month later they were gone. She says when she went to cemetery staff about the theft.

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“They told me anybody that has the right kind of screwdriver or drill can take these off and get in there,” said Smith.

The cemetery did give Smith surveillance video of the columbarium where her parents’ remains are kept, but it didn’t provide much help in solving the crime.

“It hurts. Not only do you feel like your parents have been violated in death but you’ve been violated in life,” she said.

While she doesn’t have much hope the rings will be returned, she hopes her story will serve as a warning for anyone who places valuables with their deceased loved ones.

“When they saw that they probably thought, ‘Hey this is really worth something.’ And they just thought they had something of value,” said Smith.

But the two rings are priceless keepsakes she will never get back.

“I tell them all the time I’m sorry, you know. I’m sorry that I let it happen because I promised.”

Smith says she plans to file a police report for the missing rings. LEX 18 contacted the Lexington Cemetery and were told they had no comment.

The little flaxen-haired, blue-eyed girl named “Maria” who was found in a “gypsy” camp in Greece has sparked an international hunt for the girl’s real parents. One pair of parents hoping for the miracle that the little girl is theirs is Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, whose baby, Lisa, disappeared from her bedroom in Kansas City, Missouri on October 11, when she was 11 months old. Like Maria, Lisa was fair-skinned, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and cherubic looking. Deborah and Jeremy’s claim is one of several being taken seriously by authorities.

When the Lisa Irwin case broke, suspicion centered on her parents — especially her mother, Deborah. Deborah and Jeremy have always adamantly denied they had anything to do with the girl’s disappearance.

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While unfortunately there are parents who kill their children — cases like that of the three women who were held captive for a decade in Ariel Castro’s house of horrors and then escaped; the person-of-interest sketch that police have released in the Madeleine McCann case; and the reappearances of Jaycee Duggard and Elizabeth Smart have proven not only that stranger danger exists, but that children CAN survive being abducted, sometimes for years or even decades.

Maria’s beautiful, haunted face has sparked hope in more than just Deborah and Jeremy — police say there are at least eight leads being investigated.

Jeremy and Deborah believe that Maria resembled the girl that a sketch artist drew depicting what Lisa might look like now — indeed there is a resemblance. However, authorities believe that Maria is around 4 years old, double what Lisa would be now.

However, whether or not Maria turns out to be Lisa, no doubt her appearance has given Jeremy and Deborah, and other parents of missing children, hope that somewhere their children are still out there, alive and at least fairly well.

While reports say that Maria may have been used as a “dancing monkey” by her fake parents, Hristos Salis and Eleftheria Dimopoulou, in order to make money, she also had shoes, clothes, and a clean little room with princess-like decorations. We don’t yet know what else Maria may have gone through — but if she were treated even fairly decently, that will be a huge relief to her parents … whoever they are.

The Michigan State Police is seeking the public’s help with investigating the suspected murder of Krista Robin Lueth.

The 34-year-old woman was reported missing from Lansing on Nov. 15, 2008. Lueth was last seen on Nov. 11, 2008, between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. by a neighbor on the 1100 block of Eureka Street in Lansing.

Lueth was a student at Michigan State University and had attended classes earlier that day. However, she did not attend her 6:30 p.m. class at the Hunter Park greenhouse about one half-mile from her home.

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At the time of her disappearance, Lueth was 5’4″, 135 lbs. with brown hair and blue eyes.

A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for her disappearance/murder. Anyone with any information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers of Mid-Michigan at (517) 483-STOP (7867) or online at www.crimestoppersofmidmichigan.com

A former mayor of Martin, Ky., her daughter, and two other city employees have been indicted for engaging in a scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration (SSA) and to misapply federal funds.

The federal indictment filed on Wednesday names former Martin Mayor Ruth Thomasine Robinson, 69; her daughter, Rita Christine Whicker, 42, who formerly directed the Martin Community Center; Ginger Michelle Halbert, 42, a volunteer city employee who worked closely with Robinson; and Ethel Lee Clouse, 68, the bookkeeper for the city.

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All four defendants have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the SSA, an agency of the United States; theft of social security disability benefits; and aggravated identity theft. Halbert, Whicker, and Robinson were also charged with misappropriating money from a federal program. The final count of the indictment charges Halbert with knowingly failing to report her employment and earnings to the Social Security Administration.

According to the indictment, from 2006 until January 2013, Halbert, who purportedly worked on a volunteer basis, was secretly being paid with federal funds that were primarily intended for the Martin Community Center and the Martin Housing Authority. To conceal the scheme, the defendants allegedly arranged for the checks to be made payable to Halbert’s son.

The indictment further alleges that Halbert, who was receiving social security disability benefits, intentionally failed to notify SSA of her earned income from the city of Martin. Under federal law, anyone who receives disability benefits is limited in the amount of money he or she can receive from another source and all income must be reported to the SSA so it can properly determine eligibility for benefits.

The defendants’ appearance before the United States District Court has not yet been set by the Court in Pikeville. The charges of conspiracy and social security fraud carry a maximum of 5 years in prison; the charge of misappropriating money from a federal program carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison; and the aggravated identity theft charge has a mandatory minimum penalty of two years in prison upon a conviction.