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Maddox Ritch
Autopsy reveals cause of death for Maddox Ritch
Maddox Ritch
Maddox Ritch's father: It's torture, I just want my little boy back home
Maddox Ritch's father explained how his son disappeared at Rankin Lake Park.
Crime Stoppers
Police: Search crews discover body believed to be Maddox Ritch
*UPDATE: Search crews have discovered a body believed to be Maddox Ritch off of Marietta Street/Old Dallas Highway in Gastonia Thursday afternoon.
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Why an AMBER Alert has not been issued for missing boy in Gastonia
Gastonia Police said the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons was on standby if the criteria for an AMBER Alert were met.
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Hotel guest hailed as hero after performing CPR on boy who nearly drowned
"I said I wasn't going to stop until he started breathing," said the man who saved the child.
Crime Stoppers
SC deputies using cadaver dogs to search for NC woman missing since 1995
Debra Childers was 40 years old when she was first reported missing.
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Mom says she found syringe in area where her kid go outside to play
A drug epidemic that is gripping the nation has landed in a local woman's front yard. Now she's forced to "walk the yard" before letting her kids go outside to play.
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