EXCLUSIVE: MIRACLE IN MISSOURI - SHAWN HORNBECKS FIRST INTERVIEW

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

From January 18, 2007: Shawn Hornbeck and his family (his mother and stepfather, Pam and Craig Akers, and his aunt, Shari Frazier) sit down with Oprah for their first interview since Shaun's safe return four years after he was allegedly kidnapped. Oprah also talks to Gary Wagster and Chris Nelson, the police officers who followed a tip that led them to the home of Michael Devlin, where they found Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck. She then sits down with both Don and Doris Ownby about their four-day ordeal and how they feel about their son, Ben, being the reason Shawn Hornbeck was found. FBI veteran Clint Van Zandt and author of Facing Down Evil speaks about how children returned to their families can overcome their trauma.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes, I believe the Oprah Winfrey show was one of the greatest
0:08.7	classrooms in the world.
0:10.2	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the LOLs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:20.1	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:23.8	The moments that matter, the eye opening, the light lessons, never allow them to take
0:29.9	us somewhere else.
0:30.9	I'm bringing them back.
0:33.5	It's time to open the vault.
0:35.6	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.5	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.2	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.9	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey show, the podcast.
0:59.1	It is the story that has been on all of our minds.
1:02.6	Last week, 13-year-old Ben Ohnby was reportedly abducted just outside St. Louis minutes,
1:08.4	just minutes, after getting off of the school bus, four days later, detectives tracked
1:13.0	Ben down to the apartment of a local pizza parlor manager.
1:16.1	He was 41-year-old Michael Devlin.
1:18.8	In a shocking twist, not only did police find Ben, they also discovered 15-year-old Sean
1:25.2	Hornbeck, another Missouri boy who had vanished four years ago.
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