On January 25, 1973 12 year old Marvin Lee King or as he went by Beau was a resident of the trailer park in upper valley park in Springfield, Ohio. He had called his mother at bar she worked, she answered, but could not talk to him. She told him she would call back, and when she did Beau did not answer. She then called a neighbor and asked them to check up on him. He was nowhere in sight. His mother then caught a ride with a friend and left work early to search for her son.
When she got home, her son could still not be found. It looked like that he had been baking cookies. There was no sign of a struggle and when she asked neighbors if they’d seen him they said they talked to him, but it didn’t seem like there was anything wrong. One neighbor claimed to see Beau get into a car that was possibly a 1965 Pontiac or Chevrolet. His mother then reported him missing around 11:30 p.m. that night.
The next day a man made anonymous calls to the Springfield News and St. Mary’s school that there was a body of a man in a ditch along West Possum Road in Springfield, Ohio. The last call came in around 9:45 p.m. The police went and searched for the body just after 10 p.m.
It wasn't the body of a man as the caller claimed, but the body of 12 year old Beau. He was fully clothed except for his jacket. The young boy had been murdered as he had been strangled to death. It was estimated that he had died with the last 12 to 16 hours.
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