Claim: A 2-year-old boy named Aden Cole Heath is missing from his Tennessee home.
OUTDATED
Example: [Collected via e-mail, July 2009]
My name is Ashley Heath. I have a two year old son who is missing. His name is Aden Cole Heath. He has light brown hair and blue eyes. I know texts travel fast so I am asking everyone to forward this and pray. If you know or see anything please call the police. His grandma took him from Martin, TN around three AM. She is driving a green ford explorer with harley davison stickers on it. Please...i love my son.
Origins: Missing child alerts — both actual and hoax — circulate not only on the Internet, but via cell phone text message. It's sometime hard
to tell real from
The
Cell phone text messages pleading for help in finding the boy have continued to circulate nonetheless. One received in November 2009 was not only accompanied by a photo of a mother and child (not the Heaths, however), but contained the claim that the child had gone missing from a
Barbara "outdated" Mikkelson
Last updated: 12 November 2009
Sources: |
Douglass, Brad. "Help Needed to Locate Missing Child." WBBJ-TV [Jackson, TN]. 23 July 2009. McAlister, Keli. "Missing Toddler Found." WBBJ-TV [Jackson, TN]. 23 July 2009. Carroll County News-Leader. "Missing Carroll County Child Found." 27 July 2009.