Michael Hunt Missing Child Message
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What the fact-checkers found
Email message claims that a fifteen year old boy named Michael Hunt is missing from Longs South Carolina.
Subject: help
please look at the picture, read what her father says, then forward his message on.
Help! This boy went missing 2 weeks ago(5/7/06).
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