08-06-2012, 03:43 PM
from Affton-Shrewsbury Patch
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LIVE FROM THE SITE: The great aunt of Christopher Marks, a 12-year-old boy who went missing Sunday evening, just found a lip balm shortly before 10:30 a.m. she believes to be Marks' along the road of the Pacific Palisades Conservation Area entrance.
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Donna Sherman, great aunt to Christopher Marks, a 12-year-old boy who went missing Sunday evening in the Meramec River near Pacific and Eureka just found a particular lip balm (chap stick) she believes to be her great nephew's. Patch was on the scene when Sherman made the discovery. Marks is an Affton resident who attends seventh grade at Rogers Middle School.
The significance of the lip balm, Scherman believes, is that it could mean Marks left the water and it fell out of his shorts pocket.
Marks has a twin sister, Anna-Marie, who told Sherman she gave the lip balm to Christopher this weekend prior to the trip to the conservation area and river retreat. Anna-Marie described the chap stick over the phone to Scherman as having a red, white and blue barrel with a U-Gas brand—which is exactly what Sherman found this morning on the gravel road that leads to entrance of the Pacific Palisades Conservation Area. Family members continue to try to think of other clues that made assist officials with the investigation.
nice reporter i am emailing with. told me they are doing ground search now. ---->
Julie Brown Patton
1:23 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
As of 1:15 p.m., Donna Sherman said family members were told by police teams they do not believe Christopher's body is in the water in the immediate area of the river where the incident occurred. She said search teams just came out of the water and onto land to continue looking. Sherman said 12 hours of continuous searching have not turned up any confirmed clues.
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LIVE FROM THE SITE: The great aunt of Christopher Marks, a 12-year-old boy who went missing Sunday evening, just found a lip balm shortly before 10:30 a.m. she believes to be Marks' along the road of the Pacific Palisades Conservation Area entrance.
Donna Sherman, great aunt to Christopher Marks, a 12-year-old boy who went missing Sunday evening in the Meramec River near Pacific and Eureka just found a particular lip balm (chap stick) she believes to be her great nephew's. Patch was on the scene when Sherman made the discovery. Marks is an Affton resident who attends seventh grade at Rogers Middle School.
The significance of the lip balm, Scherman believes, is that it could mean Marks left the water and it fell out of his shorts pocket.
Marks has a twin sister, Anna-Marie, who told Sherman she gave the lip balm to Christopher this weekend prior to the trip to the conservation area and river retreat. Anna-Marie described the chap stick over the phone to Scherman as having a red, white and blue barrel with a U-Gas brand—which is exactly what Sherman found this morning on the gravel road that leads to entrance of the Pacific Palisades Conservation Area. Family members continue to try to think of other clues that made assist officials with the investigation.
nice reporter i am emailing with. told me they are doing ground search now. ---->
Julie Brown Patton
1:23 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
As of 1:15 p.m., Donna Sherman said family members were told by police teams they do not believe Christopher's body is in the water in the immediate area of the river where the incident occurred. She said search teams just came out of the water and onto land to continue looking. Sherman said 12 hours of continuous searching have not turned up any confirmed clues.