Info Withheld In Missing Boys Case?

Milwaukee police think at least one person knows something about the case of two missing boys, but for some reason isn't coming forward.

Police spokeswoman Anne Schwartz says information has surfaced that leads police and the FBI to believe someone is withholding information.

Schwartz didn't give any details about what information surfaced. But she's urging anyone who knows something to come forward quickly.

Police say 12-year-old Quadrevion Henning and eleven-year-old Purvis Virginia Parker have been missing since they went to play basketball last Sunday.

It's day six in the search for the pair, and there's still no sign of the two boys.

Nonetheless, hundreds of people continue to search and pray for their safe return.

Family, friends and a host of others attended a prayer vigil Friday in Milwaukee. They sang songs and held flyers containing pictures of the boys hoping for the best.

Some even drove around town with posters on their cars trying to flesh out someone who could shed light on what may have happened to the boys.

Authorities have intensified their search and a reward has now increased to $23,000.

"I know somebody's got them," said Garry Henning, the grandfather of missing 12-year-old Quadrevion Henning.

Angela Virginia, the mother of 11-year-old Purvis Virginia Parker, said she believed the same thing — that the boys wouldn't have wandered away on their own.

"I believe they've been forced against their will," said Virginia, as she wiped tears from her eyes. "He may be missing for now, but soon he'll be home."

Searchers brought in more tracking dogs Thursday and increase the search area to help find two boys who disappeared while playing outside Sunday and haven't been seen since.

"We absolutely don't have any information about where they would be and why they would leave of their own accord," police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said Thursday at a news conference. "We just simply don't know where they are."

Schwartz said they didn't have substantial leads despite hundreds of phone calls to a tip line. The FBI also planned to bring in a mobile command post to help and divers from four law enforcement agencies were planning to search a local park lagoon, she said.

"So far all the leads have lead to dead ends," Schwartz told reporters Wednesday.

"We haven't gotten calls from people who've said, 'I've seen them here or there,"' which is unusual, Schwartz said.

The search that began earlier in the week intensified Wednesday, with dozens of police officers searching on foot and knocking on doors in a larger radius around the homes of the boys, who live 2 1/2 blocks apart in a quiet neighborhood of small homes.

The hunt included searching the waters of a creek and a pond in the area. Divers checked storm sewers, and officers scanned the ground by helicopter. A ground search covered the 237-acre urban Havenwoods State Forest.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has sent officials who were saturating the state with posters, according to organization consultant Brook T. Schaub.