Remains may be missing Porter children
By JUDY THOMAS
The Kansas City Star

Authorities believe they have found the remains of two Independence children missing since June 2004, the mother of Sam and Lindsey Porter said this afternoon.

Tina Porter told The Kansas City Star that Independence police officers arrived at her house at 9:30 a.m. to give her the devastating news that they found the remains in the woods along Cement City Road in Sugar Creek.

“Maj. (Gregg) Wilkinson said they were 99 percent sure that it was Sam and Lindsey,” she said through sobs. She said police told her that they expected to have test results back in about 24 hours.

She said the news was numbing.

“It was like watching a movie,” she said. “I saw the police cars drive up, and my first thought was that they were coming to tell me they’d found Sam and Lindsey alive. I feel so sick. It just doesn’t seem real.”

Police declined to comment this afternoon, but police vehicles lined the road Sunday along the wooded area where the remains were found.

Sam and Lindsey Porter were 7 and 8 when their father picked them up on June 5, 2004, for the weekend. At the time, Dan Porter was estranged from his wife, Tina, who is the children’s mother. The children hadn’t been seen since.

The remains were discovered on property where Dan Porter used to hunt. The area had been searched numerous times with search-and-rescue dogs since the children’s disappearance.

Porter, 44, was convicted in February 2006 of parental kidnapping with the intent to terrorize his ex-wife and sentenced to 38 years in prison.

After his arrest on the kidnapping charges, Porter told authorities several stories about what he had done with his children, including that he had cut them up and that he had strangled them.

In a letter to Tina Porter, however, he wrote that the children were in a wonderful place.

“When they come home,” he wrote, “it’ll be because somebody in the public spots them. But they’re having a childhood that you and I can only dream of.”

I don't know if anyone remembers when this happened
but I will never forget!

I live very close to Independence. I hate to hear that. Thanks for the information. Havent seen it on tv or the new paper today

I was watching the US Open and they interrupted the finals with this news

this guy should never see the light of day

it hurts mt spirit to hear this

Making my stomach turn....I can't understand how anyone could ever harm a child.

Today they announced that the remains were the Porter children. I feel so terrible for their mother and family members. What kind of monster kills his own children

one who really don't give a ****. that's pretty sad.

That is soooo sick...and you know those children trusted their father 100% up until the time he murdered them......so sad!

It is all over the news here. It is a very sad day, besides being 9/11 as well.

you're right, that is disgusting. they probably still did as he was doing it. is that kansas or mosouri?

Missouri

Hang em high, send a message this will not be tolerated.

missouri has the death penalty. no doubt he'll get it.

As well he should....twice! Sick bastard...

Hey look I can type bastard and not have it edited out!! Ohhhh....always a way around the system.....

"What kind of monster kills his own children "

Someone who is mentally ill or who has brain damage?

not necessarily spider. he very well could be mental but there are some sick people out there.


asshole works too....woohoo

lol sorry bout that. by sick i meant people who are considered "normal", whatever that means.

this guy is pure Evil
that's what kind of monster kills his own children
I hope he ends up paying for this until he draws his last breath