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Madison Residents Cautious after Abduction, Return

April 25th, 2016 by Mike Vasilinda

A week ago today, a seven your old boy knocked on the door of a Jacksonville home almost 13 hours after he had been abducted from his home a hundred miles away in  Madison. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, police are still looking for a suspect and have offered a fifty thousand dollar reward.

As dawn broke last Monday, seven year old Bryan Williamson knocked on the door of this Jacksonville residence, capping a 13 hour ordeal. Bryan had been kidnapped Sunday outside his home in Madison, a hundred miles to the west. Police Chief Ken Moore held a news conference later Monday.

“Let me start off by saying how thankful we are that seven year old Bryan Williamson was found alive today” said the Chief.

Seven year old Bryan  left his house here to give him a piece of bubblegum. He never got there.

On Thursday, police released grainy surveillance video. They are looking for a dark sedan, but are giving up few details about the suspect. His capture couldn’t some soon enough for nervous residents. We met Cindy Oberstllake picnicking with her grandson just blocks from Bryan’s home.

“It is  a frightening thing that somebody would abduct a child in such a small town when we feel so safe” said the grandmother.

:”And do you let your grandson out of your sight after that” we asked.

“No.”

Ten to twenty officers are working 24/7 out of this command post. A fifty thousand dollar reward is being offered. Rafphine Ghent is Bryan’s Sunday School teacher.

“His cousin is usually with him?”

“He’s with him, watching out for him. He do most of the talking for him.”

A woman who identified herself as Bryan’s aunt answered a knock at the families home.

“Right now, we don’t want to talk at all” she told us.

A week after the happy ending, this small city is still shell shocked. For now, signs like these aren’t necessary…few here are letting their children out to play unsupervised.

Authorities say “No piece of information is too small.” They  are asking to be notified of any unusual sale or alteration of a black or dark colored four-door sedan since Monday morning. The abductor is said to be a black or hispanic male.

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