What do you do when you've spent four years of your life looking for a body only to have the assumed victim turn up alive?
Early in his law career, John D. Rupp Jr. received a job offer he couldn’t turn down: Washington County [Missouri] needed an assistant prosecutor. “This countryside is gorgeous, with hills and pine trees, much of it in the Mark Twain National Forest,” he says. Small and rural, it reminded him of Pueblo, Colo., where he grew up. “What an easy job,” he thought. “What could happen in a place like this?”
Working for years to find the missing body of a murder victim and an illusive killer, at the beginning of May he'll be in court presenting the evidence in a preliminary trial against a kidnapper instead.
This is a fascinating backstory to the recent Missouri kidnappings. John Rupp is the only member of law enforcement to have worked the Shawn Hornbeck case from its start to its not-as-yet finish.
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Is the case mentioned here an actual event or just fiction? Can you include more details?
Posted by: Steve Banic at April 9, 2007 03:33 PMI'm sorry, I should have provided links to prior posts. It's a case I'm very interested in, though I don't post much about it in order not to drive everyone mad with it.
Posted by: Donnah at April 9, 2007 04:40 PM