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U.S. NEWS Monday 30 January 2017
Police stymied in search for twins missing 10 years

the new counts, which in- provided not check out, or
clude theft. have relatives tell police
A criminal complaint filed they’ve never heard of
Wednesday said she had the twins. Police said one
been collecting benefits out-of-state address pro-
for the twins since June vided by Fowler turned out
2011, and continued doing to be a vacant storefront,
so through the end of Au- and one Georgia city she
gust — weeks after police named didn’t exist.
charged her with conceal- At one point, Fowler even
ing the twins’ whereabouts. told police she sold the
Her public defender would children years ago for
not comment, citing an $2,000 each to a woman
office policy to not com- she didn’t know in a deal
menting on pending inves- brokered by a man she
These undated photo Illustrations show artist conceptions of tigations. met in a bar. She reversed
what Ivon Fowler, left, and Inisha Fowler, right, may look like Fowler has changed her course and told police that
currently. The two twin children of Patricia Fowler have not been story several times regard- was a lie.
seen for over ten years. The mother, who has been free on bail ing the whereabouts of Police have unsuccessfully
on charges of concealing the whereabouts of the twins, has Ivon and Inisha. She’s told checked with the National
claimed the children are safe and living out of state, but no in- police the two children Center of Missing and Ex-
formation she provided has panned out.
(Colin McNally/NCMEC via AP) are living with friends or ploited Children, which in
relatives in North Caro- September released age-
lina, South Carolina and progressed images show-
JOE MANDAK house in December. Georgia, only to have the ing what the twins may
Associated Press Patricia Fowler was arrest-
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two ed in August on charges names and addresses she’s look like now. q
weeks after child welfare of concealing the where-
workers removed four chil- abouts of her twins after
dren from a woman’s sub- police investigated follow-
urban Pittsburgh home ing the removal of four of
in June for alleged ne- her other children. Fowler
glect, they discovered an has claimed the children
even bigger problem: The are safe and living out of
woman has two other chil- state, but no information
dren who are missing, and she’s provided to police
haven’t been seen alive for has panned out, authori-
more than a decade. ties said. She’s been free
Since the summer, police on bail.
investigators have cast As police try to solve the
a wide net for twins Ivon mystery, they have filed
and Inisha, who would be additional charges against
about 18 now. A county Fowler, 47, accusing her
detective has testified he of illegally collecting more
believes the children are than $50,000 in state food
dead but can’t prove it. A stamps, public assistance
cadaver-sniffing dog came and medical benefits for
up empty during a search the twins. As of Friday, she
of another Pittsburgh area had not yet surrendered on