DEVIN FRENETTE - 9 yo - East Hampstead NH

EAST HAMPSTEAD, N.H. -- A large-scale search is continuing for a 9-year-old boy missing in Hampstead.Officers
are searching for Devin Frenette, who was last seen in his Catherine
Avenue yard at about 1 p.m. Monday, according to Fish and Game Lt. James
Juneau.Frenette is 3 feet 6 inches tall and 50 pounds, with
blond hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue fleece jacket,
khaki pants and sneakers.Hampstead police were notified late in the afternoon and began the search, police said.
Local police officers were joined by sheriff's deputies, a county
command truck, multiple Fish and Game officers, the New Hampshire State
Police K-9 unit and six more K-9 units from New England Canine Search
and Rescue.On Monday night, a state police helicopter with infrared technology was brought in to help.Nearby residents were notified by an automated phone call.The search is centered around Catherine Avenue in East Hampstead.Authorities said Frenette left home back in May but was found a few miles away about four hours later.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 603-329-5700.

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HAMPSTEAD, N.H. -- Police continued to search overnight for a missing 9-year-old boy from Hampstead, New Hampshire.

Devin Frenette was last seen in the area of North Main Street and Old
Country Road at around 12:30 p.m. Monday. He was wearing a blue fleece
and khaki pants. He has blonde hair and blue eyes and weighs about 45
pounds.

Overnight, investigators and K9 teams combed through the area where
Devin was last seen, bringing in a state police helicopter to search
from above.

A spokesperson for the sheriff's department says Devin was playing outside just before his disappearance.

Neighbors came out to help in the search.

"I'm kind of just waiting to be told what I can do,” Brian O’dell said.
“I hope to help find the kid; I hope nothing serious goes wrong."

"I asked if I could help look,” Barry Hantman said. “They said right
now they have it under control to just wait, and they'd let me know.”

The sheriff's department says Devin has wandered away before, but never for this long. They say they’re not taking any chances.

Anyone with information about Devin’s whereabouts is asked to call Hampstead police at 603-329-5700.

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Rescue Crews Find Missing 9-Year-Old
N.H. Fish & Game: Devin Frenette Currently Home Safe And Sound

POSTED: 6:53 pm EDT October 18, 2011
UPDATED: 7:03 pm EDT October 18, 2011

HAMPSTEAD, N.H. -- New Hampshire Fish and Game agents said missing 9-year-old Devin Frenette has been found.

Officials said Frenette is currently home safe and sound.

Law enforcement officials and hundreds of volunteers spent Tuesday scouring the area around where the boy disappeared more than a day ago.

More than 250 people were actively involved in the search. The Fish and Game Department was joined by local law enforcement from Hampstead and other surrounding towns. While the State Police helicopter searched from above, volunteers were out in full force.

Hundreds of people showed up to volunteer, but many had to wait for hours just to offer help. Many had to be turned away and were told that officials wouldn't be looking for more volunteers because they already had more than they could use.

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Devin Frenette's parents thank everyone for help
Oct 18, 2011 7:53pm



(NECN) - Devin Frenette, the nine-year-old boy missing from Hampstead, New Hampshire, since Monday afternoon has been found alive.

At a press conference, police said the Hampstead police received a call at 6:25 p.m. Tuesday from a resident on Brown Hill road, a short distance behind the Frenette residence. The callers said the boy was doing fine and in their home, asleep in the bed.

Police said they were just very happy to report a successful conclusion to their search.

They said it was likely he wandered into the woods, but that isn't confirmed yet.

The parents of Devin spoke, thanking everyone for their support and saying how grateful they are.

Devin high-fived a police officer to laughs and cheers from the press conference crowd.

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How the search for Devin ended happily
By JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
Published Oct 19, 2011 at 3:00 am (Updated Oct 18, 2011)


Devin Frenette, 9, smiles after being reunited with his parents, Mark and Kerrilyn Frenette, on Tuesday night in Hampstead.

(JASON SCHREIBER)

Jeff and Claire Gill were shocked to find 9-year-old Devin Frenette under their bed.

HAMPSTEAD – Devin Frenette's 29-hour adventure sounds like a page from "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," but in his case, it was pistachio ice cream instead of porridge.

The 9-year-old Hampstead boy who disappeared Monday afternoon apparently wandered through the woods behind his house and somehow ended up inside Jeff and Claire Gill's cozy house at 48 Brown Hill Road.

To the more than 250 people who spent Monday and Tuesday searching for him by air and on land, Devin seemed to vanish without a trace.

But he left lots of evidence behind inside the Gill residence. Claire knew something was up when she came home just before 6:30 Tuesday night.

She noticed candy wrappers on the couch, opened applesauce and spoons. She noticed a muffin was also missing.

"I just thought it was obviously very weird," she recalled with a smile.

She wondered if her kids had come to her house with the grandkids, but they hadn't been around.

"When nobody had been over here, I said, ‘We've got to start looking, somebody must have been in our house.'"

A quick search of the house uncovered the shock of their lives: The boy who had so many fearing the worst was asleep under a bed with a bottle of water and a gallon of Friendly's Pistachio ice cream.

The Gills knew immediately that he must have been that blond-haired, blue-eyed boy everyone was looking for who just so happens to live about 1,000 feet from their house. Sure enough, it was him.

"I was shocked, but we were both just thrilled that he was all right. He was a very sweet little boy," Claire said.

Devin came right out from under the bed after he was found. "He came over, we gave him a hug and we told him everything was fine," Jeff said. They then offered him a drink and carried him into the kitchen while Claire went outside to call Hampstead police.

The discovery came as a relief to the Gills, but his parents were most relieved when they learned that their son had been found safe and sound.

The Gills said Devin actually spent the night inside their house, but they had no clue.

No one knows yet how Devin got inside their house. Jeff said it's possible that he sneaked into the garage on Monday when the door was open and then stayed there until they left for work and then got into the house.

Devin was all smiles Tuesday night when his mom, Kerrilyn Frenette, carried him outside their home at 60 Catherine Ave. accompanied by his father, Mark. They were greeted by a round of applause from a crowd of searchers, neighbors, media, and others in the community who gathered to see that he was now home.

"We'd just like to thank everybody, all the searchers, all the work because you had long hours. I'd like to thank the community, too, for pulling together and helping us through this," Mark Frenette said.

"Welcome home, buddy," one woman yelled from the crowd.

Fish and Game Capt. John Wimsatt also thanked the more the 300 searchers who helped hunt for Devin.

"They are truly the ones that deserve the recognition for all of their efforts in swamps, woodlands, knocking door to door, canvasing neighborhoods, doing the reverse calling sequences to (keep) residents notified, and also the air support from the New Hampshire State Police helicopter," Wimsatt said.

The hunt for Devin began Monday afternoon when his family reported him missing.

The search intensified Tuesday morning as more search crews were called in, including police from several agencies, firefighters, Fish and Game officers, other local volunteers and members of the Southern New Hampshire Special Operations Unit.

Authorities said they thought Devin might have wandered off and became lost, as he has walked away from his house in the past and had to be found by police. However, officials said Devin has never been missing for such a long period of time.

A command post vehicle from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Department remained parked in the Frenettes' driveway all day Tuesday. Police and conservation officers occasionally examined the backyard and entered the home as many other teams of search crews fanned out across the area.

The disappearance rattled the nerves of many here, especially neighbors who have searched their own backyards and streets.

Devin, who was home-schooled, was often seen playing outside and helping around the yard.

Nadia Alawa, who lives on nearby Ellyson Avenue with her eight children, said Devin and his older sister often played with her children when he was younger.

"It is very unnerving. I hope that he will be found and that he just went outside and got lost. Anything worse than that will give me the creeps," she said before he was found.

When she heard that Devin had wandered away before, Alawa said she was hopeful that he just had an "adventurous streak and likes to explore" and that he would turn up soon.

And so he did.

The adventure is something his family will never forget, and neither will Jeff and Claire Gill.

"It's surreal," Claire said.
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HAMPSTEAD, N.H. -- New Hampshire officials want to know why a 9-year-old boy continues to disappear from his Hampstead home.

Devin Frenette was found in a tree on Tuesday night, about four hours
after he was reported missing. Police said this was the fourth time he
has gone missing since 2009.

“There was a passerby sighting of him in the area of 115 East Main
Street. He recognized the child from the week before,” said Lt. John
Frazier of the Hampstead, N.H. Police Department. “He hasn’t been
providing us with a lot of information at this point. Obviously when we
found him, he was otherwise healthy, but he was shaking, he was cold.”

Now, the Division of Children, Youth and Family Services is looking into the child’s welfare.

Last week, Devin was missing for 30 hours. More than 300 law
enforcement officers and people in the community led a massive search.
Devin had apparently been hiding inside a nearby home, under the
couple’s bed.

“He was sleeping under our bed with a half-gallon of ice cream and a bottle of water,” said a neighbor.

Police said it appears the boy tried to go back to that home again on Tuesday.

“We sent officers to the last address that he went to last week, where
we discovered a backpack, clothing items, so we knew he was at that
house, but he was not in it,” said Frazier.

Last week, it was a happy homecoming between Devin and his family, but
on Tuesday night, police decided to place the boy in protective custody
to further investigate the situation.

“Well obviously there are a lot of factors that are in play here. Our
concern is obviously for the safety of the child,” said Frazier.

Devin’s parents were summoned to a hearing on Wednesday by the Department of Children and Family.

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