Duncan and Jack Connolly amber alert

[dan_uk]

Missing From: Leroy, IL
Missing Date:
Issued for: Illinois: Statewide
Contact: If you have information, please contact McLean County Sheriff's Office, 309-888-5019
Circumstances: At the request of the sheriff's office in McLean County, the Illinois emergency alert system is activated for an amber alert. The McLean County Sheriff's Office has a confirmed a child abduction that occurred at Leroy Police Department, 111 East Center, Leroy Illinois. Anyone with information should call 9-1-1 and advise they have an amber alert report. This concludes the amber alert issued by the Illinois State Police.


Missing Child
Name: Duncan G. Connolly
Alias:
Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Asian Age: 9YO
Height: 3FT6 Weight: 66LBS
Gender: Male
Description: Scar on upper lip on left side, birthmark on right thumb. Last seen wearing a green coat, burgundy hoodie, a black shirt, and black pants with a red stripe.

Missing Child
Name: Jack D. Connolly
Alias:
Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Asian Age: 7YO
Height: 3FT4 Weight: 62LBS
Gender: Male
Description: Scar on right eyebrow, surgical scar behind right ear. Last seen wearing a red and blue coat, blue shirt, and red and blue pants.


Suspect
Name: Michael l. Connolly
Alias:
Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Asian Age: 40YO
Height: 5FT8 Weight: 175LBS
Gender: Male
Description:

Vehicle Information
Make: Dodge Model: Dynasty
Color: Grey Interior Color:
License State: IL License Text: a326109
Vehicle Description:

[dan_uk]

Amber Alert for Downstate boys

An Amber Alert remains active this morning for two brothers from the central Illinois city of LeRoy, and officials said their father may be taking them to the Chicago area.

The McLean County Sheriff's Office said Duncan Connolly, 9, and his brother, Jack, 7, were last seen around 6 p.m. Sunday with their father, Michael Connolly.

The boys' mother, Amy Leichtenberg, said this morning that Connolly's sister lives in Hoffman Estates and probably would take him in if he came seeking her help.

To her ex-husband, whom she divorced in 2007, she said: "Just bring the boys home. Just drop them off -- he can run. Just drop them off at a police station or a hospital. I don't want him. Just get them home safe."


According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the boys may still be near LeRoy or could be headed to Hoffman Estates, possibly in a gray Dodge Dynasty sedan with Illinois license plate A326109.

Leichtenberg said Connolly, who lived in an apartment in Bloomington, was recently was laid off from his job as a pharmaceutical salesman. He may be headed to place where he can gamble to get some fast cash, she said.

Connolly was scheduled to drop the boys off at the LeRoy Police Department on Sunday at 6 p.m., but never showed up. Earlier in the week, she said, the boys refused to get out of their father's car when he dropped them off at the police department to go with their mother. Officers had to get the boys out of the vehicle, she said.

The boys later told her that Connolly said "he was moving, and it was their choice whether they got out of the car."

Leichtenberg, 39, left Connolly in 2007, taking the boys with her. In the past he had threatened to take the children from her, saying "he wanted to make me feel like he did."

Connolly, she said, was usually on time when he picking up or dropping off the boys. When he didn't appear Sunday, Leichtenberg immediately became worried.


Duncan Connolly was described as Asian, 3 feet 6 inches tall, 66 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes with a scar on his upper lip and a birthmark on his right thumb. He was last seen wearing a green coat, burgundy hooded sweatshirt, a black shirt and black pants with a red stripe.

His younger brother is about 3 feet 4 inches tall, 62 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, a scar on his right eyebrow and another scar behind his right ear. He was wearing a red and blue coat, a blue shirt, and red and blue pants.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/03/amber-alert-issued-for-ill-boys.html

[dan_uk]

Family makes plea to missing boys' father

The Chicago area family of two missing brothers is pleading with the boys' father to bring them home.
"We love him so much, we love the boys so much. We want them back. We want everybody back. We want our family back together," said Joyce Connolly, Michael' Connolly's aunt.
The aunt and grandmother of Michael Connolly spoke out on Thursday night in Oak Lawn.
Connolly is believed to be on the run with his two sons, 9-year-old Duncan and 7-year-old Jack. They've been missing since Sunday when Connolly failed to return the boys to their mother at a police station in Leroy, Illinois. The couple had recently divorced.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6707602

[dan_uk]

Missing children in Illinois possibly sighted near state line in Bristol


The LeRoy Police Department is looking for two missing children, reportedly abducted by their father March 8.

There was a sighting that is currently being investigated on March 10, at the Virginia Welcome Center off I-81 in Bristol.

The missing children ar 9-year-old Duncan Connolly and 7-year-old Jack Connolly.

Their father is 40-year-old Michael Connolly.

A felony kidnapping warrant was issued for Michael on March 9.

Their current location and or destination is not known at this time.

If you have any information on their location, please contact the LeRoy Police Department at (309) 888-5019 or (309) 888-5030.

http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/local/article/missing_children_in_illinois_possibly_sighted_near _state_line_in_bristol/30560/

[One2Snoop]

Family, friends mourn dead brothers
Monday, March 30, 2009 | 10:41 PM




March 30, 2009 (WLS) -- Two brothers who had been the subject of an Amber Alert have been found dead. Police say their father killed them, then himself.

VIDEO: Family, friends mourn dead brothers

Nine-year-old Duncan and 7-year-old Jack were the focus of an Amber Alert issued earlier this month. The three-week-old search ended in tragedy about 100 miles south of Chicago.

Michael Connolly, 40, failed to return the boys to their mother - his ex-wife - on Sunday, March 8. Initially, investigators thought Connolly might be in the Chicago area where his relatives live in southwest suburban Oak Lawn.

But authorities say they found bodies matching the descriptions of the two missing Leroy, Illinois, brothers and cancelled the Amber Alert.

Authorities say the children's bodies were found Sunday inside a car registered to Michael Connolly. Police happened upon the 1991 Dodge Dynasty after receiving a call about a suspicious vehicle in a secluded area. At around 6 p.m. Sunday, investigators examined the vehicle and found two deceased boys in the back seat area. The body of a man matching Michael Connolly's description was found about 60 feet west of the car. Autopsies have been scheduled.

The sheriff has not said if there were any obvious signs of trauma or if a weapon was recovered.

On the day that the boys disappeared, there was a restraining order in place against Michael Connolly because authorities say he continued to harass his ex-wife. The two had divorced in 2007 after 13 years of marriage.

On Monday night, signs of grief could be seen in two Illinois communities where the boys once lived.

The brothers had been missing since March 8 when their father failed to return them following a court-ordered visit.

The mother says the justice system failed her. She says it failed her because she tried to warn the judge that with unsupervised visits, something like this could happen.

But the judge did grant those visits with the boys' father, Michael Connolly.

Two towns -- one near Chicago, one downstate -- are overcome with emotion.

Children grieved children on Monday night in Algonquin, where Duncan and Jack Connolly lived until their parents got divorced.

"Our hearts are broken for Amy and the kids. It's punished everybody in the neighborhood. We're just so sad," said Jim Jerardi, neighbor.

Downstate in LeRoy, where their mother moved them, there were similar signs of grief at what was called "a coming together for Duncan and Jack."

"I said they're dead aren't they? And he said yes," said, Bernice Lemaich, the suspect's grandmother.

Lemaich, 98, says she learned early Monday morning what her family had dreaded for weeks -- that the brothers, missing since March 8, were indeed dead.

"Emotions were high and the desire was strong, all in hopes of bringing Jack and Duncan home to their mom, Amy," said Mike Emery, McLean County Sheriff's Department.

"It's so shocking, we're in such a state of shock," said Joyce Connolly, the suspect's aunt.

Connolly's family said on Monday night that they agree with Amy Lichetenberg, the boys' mother, who released a statement through a friend saying that the justice system failed her.

"My heart is broken. There are no words to express my pain. No parent should ever have to bury their babies," said Brandi Tuley, spokesperson for Lichetenberg.

"I think he just went berzerk. I think for the last two years he's just not been there mentally," said Joyce Connolly.

Connolly, aunt of Michael Connolly, says her opinion is the judge did make a mistake in allowing unsupervised visits.

Investigators called this case a murder-suicide on Monday, but there was much more they did not reveal, including how the boys were killed.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6735331

[dan_uk]

:rose::rose: r.i.p Duncan and Jack :rose::rose:

[javahog]

Too sad. Why take anyone with you? :rose: