09-13-2011, 09:30 PM
This is old but it does gives more details re: the earlier attempted abduction and why they linked this with Hopley. How did they have the suspects footprints matched at the time alluded to here? I'm also interested to learn about Keinan's ability to speak and why would the suspect know about it? From this quote below "And as you know, and we know, he can't speak."
"Kienan Hebert abductor attempted abduction of another child
Officials say it happened around the same time Kienan Hebert's abduction
Calgary Herald September 11, 2011
As the family of a missing three-year-old begged for his safe return, police in British Columbia said the kidnapper tried to lure another Sparwood child just hours before Kienan Hebert was snatched from his bed.
Police wouldn't divulge when they found out about the earlier abduction attempt, nor why it took almost four days to determine that Kienan was abducted.
However, the confirmation has destroyed any hopes the family may have held about the child sleepwalking away from his home Wednesday morning.
"Investigators can state that this is a case of child abduction. It is not a matter of a child walking away from the home. Kienan was abducted," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk
"The person who abducted Kienan . . . did enter the Hebert home and removed Kienan from the house."
The family addressed the abductor directly through media Saturday while sitting at a folding table under a makeshift white tent set up on a gravel lot outside the Sparwood firehall.
"We're speaking to whoever has Kienan right now.
{snip}
"Kienan is only three years old right now. And as you know, and we know, he can't speak. He can't tell us who you are," he said. "This is your chance, right now, to get away. All we want is for Kienan to come back with us and to be safe in our arms again."
{SNIP}
While police wouldn't offer any insight about the earlier abduction attempt, Michelle Kaus, who lives less than a block away from Heberts, said her home in Sparwood - about 240 kilometres southwest of Calgary - was broken into the same night Kienan was taken.
Police later told the mother of two that the suspect's footprint was found in her garage. Her children had not been home at the time of the break-in and nothing was stolen except an iPod filled with photos.
"It's really hard to accept that we had a psycho in our house touching our things," she said. "I haven't gone through the kids' stuff, so I don't know if he's taken any toys."
Kaus's children, a son, 4, and a daughter, 2, were visiting their dad in Elkford Tuesday night, leaving the mother free to go out with a friend.
"I left the door unlocked because the outside lights were out and I didn't want to be fumbling in the dark with my keys," she said, adding: "Stupid."
When she got home, the door was locked. She climbed on to her balcony, but that door also was locked.
Finally, she managed to sneak in the garage by pressing the dooropener in her car.
It was only later she and her friend realized the break-and-enter suspect must have been hiding in the downstairs bedroom or laundry room at the time, waiting for the opportunity to flee the home.
{SNIP}
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Kienan...z1XssDFEaM
"Kienan Hebert abductor attempted abduction of another child
Officials say it happened around the same time Kienan Hebert's abduction
Calgary Herald September 11, 2011
As the family of a missing three-year-old begged for his safe return, police in British Columbia said the kidnapper tried to lure another Sparwood child just hours before Kienan Hebert was snatched from his bed.
Police wouldn't divulge when they found out about the earlier abduction attempt, nor why it took almost four days to determine that Kienan was abducted.
However, the confirmation has destroyed any hopes the family may have held about the child sleepwalking away from his home Wednesday morning.
"Investigators can state that this is a case of child abduction. It is not a matter of a child walking away from the home. Kienan was abducted," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk
"The person who abducted Kienan . . . did enter the Hebert home and removed Kienan from the house."
The family addressed the abductor directly through media Saturday while sitting at a folding table under a makeshift white tent set up on a gravel lot outside the Sparwood firehall.
"We're speaking to whoever has Kienan right now.
{snip}
"Kienan is only three years old right now. And as you know, and we know, he can't speak. He can't tell us who you are," he said. "This is your chance, right now, to get away. All we want is for Kienan to come back with us and to be safe in our arms again."
{SNIP}
While police wouldn't offer any insight about the earlier abduction attempt, Michelle Kaus, who lives less than a block away from Heberts, said her home in Sparwood - about 240 kilometres southwest of Calgary - was broken into the same night Kienan was taken.
Police later told the mother of two that the suspect's footprint was found in her garage. Her children had not been home at the time of the break-in and nothing was stolen except an iPod filled with photos.
"It's really hard to accept that we had a psycho in our house touching our things," she said. "I haven't gone through the kids' stuff, so I don't know if he's taken any toys."
Kaus's children, a son, 4, and a daughter, 2, were visiting their dad in Elkford Tuesday night, leaving the mother free to go out with a friend.
"I left the door unlocked because the outside lights were out and I didn't want to be fumbling in the dark with my keys," she said, adding: "Stupid."
When she got home, the door was locked. She climbed on to her balcony, but that door also was locked.
Finally, she managed to sneak in the garage by pressing the dooropener in her car.
It was only later she and her friend realized the break-and-enter suspect must have been hiding in the downstairs bedroom or laundry room at the time, waiting for the opportunity to flee the home.
{SNIP}
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Kienan...z1XssDFEaM