witnesses say *** car pulled up to the boy asked directions and drove away. There's another neighbor who said that he looked out the window at the corner of 42nd and Marquardt and that he saw *** car take off almost like peel out on the 42nd street from Marquardt, maybe *** mile from the interstate highway bob rushing, told tv eight news today, the two witnesses gave conflicting descriptions of the man. The fact that there were no good solid eyewitnesses just added to the complication of the case added to the mystery. *** policeman showed up at our house. The next step was filling out the missing persons report. His comment to me was, well, did your kid ever run away before? He just wouldn't do that. He's *** very responsible young man and he was then classified as *** runaway. I was absolutely in shock. Is this still being treated as missing persons case at this point? Yes, it is. You don't think it's *** kidnapping though, do you? I'm not ruling out anything, but I have nothing to indicate that it was *** kidnapping. Police. I think that their initial reaction was, it's *** 12 year old kid. It's summer school's about to start, who knows. He probably ran away for the third straight day. Volunteers turned out to look for clues to the boy's disappearance. It's just gripping every single minute of the day worrying about his safety. Whether he's warm, whether he's had food. All of these things that when days go by, you just wonder if he's even going to come back the next day. They sent over two FBI agents and they said now this is just *** courtesy call. We are not going to enter the case because you have failed to prove your son's life is in danger really. Was just this spiraling, escalating miscommunication and difficulty between the family, primarily Noreen and the police department, which wasn't used to being told by *** suburban mom how they should conduct their business. Chief Cooney at the time was old school guy who'd come up through the ranks. Um not the most communicative guy in the world, kind of *** chain smoker, just *** tough guy. He had tattoos on his arm before tattoos were cool. Yesterday's des Moines Register. Cooney was quoted as saying, I don't really give *** damn what marine gosh has to say I'm interested in the boy and what we can do to find him. Say there has now been *** total complete break with the Western Mind Police Department. They say the department's lack of experience in child abduction cases has resulted in uncooperative nous and *** failure to do many basic things that were needed. It was the absolute worst time of my entire life to feel so helpless that I couldn't help my own son. I have never in my life been in *** predicament such as this