Beaufort, Missouri

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Beaufort is an unincorporated community in western Franklin County, Missouri. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 50 and Route 185 about eleven miles west of Union. The community was founded in 1849, and is named after Beaufort, South Carolina. One of the largest incomes for the city is Voss' market. They are known for their great milkshakes.

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On January 9, 2007, a 13-year-old boy named William "Ben" Ownby, was exiting his school bus and going home when he was allegedly picked up and abducted, by a person or persons in what is believed to be a white Nissan truck. That account, according to CNN's Nancy Grace, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the FBI, and the Franklin County Sheriff, was given by the boy's 15-year-old friend, who had followed the truck for a brief period in his own vehicle and subsequently passed a polygraph test. A massive regional search, a vigil, and a missing person alert and fliers ensued.

Ben Ownby was found, along with Shawn Hornbeck (who had disappeared four years previously), on January 12, 2006, in the Kirkwood apartment of Michael Devlin.[1]