PORT ST. LUCIE — Shane “Moo” Graham has been missing for about a decade.

Judith Leekin

Port St. Lucie police hoped to figure out what happened to him on Wednesday when they used radar equipment to help solve his case, marking the second time in a week that police have searched for his body.

Crime scene team members from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office used their ground-penetrating radar gear to scan the yards of houses once owned by Shane’s adoptive mother, convicted child abuser Judith Leekin.

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PORT ST. LUCIE — Police searched today the grounds of three homes owned by convicted child abuser Judith Leekin, using cadaver dogs to sniff for the remains of one of her 11 adopted children, Shane “Moo” Graham, who went missing a decade ago.

Judith Leekin

The search proved fruitless, but police officers will keep looking until the boy’s body is found, Detective Stuart Klearman said today at a press conference at the Port St. Lucie Police Department.

“We need to find this child and do right by him,” he said.

Leekin, a 63-year-old Port St. Lucie woman, forced her adopted children and young adults to sleep on a storage room floor, binding them with plastic ties and handcuffs, beating them and keeping them away from school and medical care.

She is serving a 20-year term in Florida on multiple charges of aggravated child abuse and aggravated abuse of disabled adults concurrent with a 10-year, 10-month term she received in New York last year for defrauding that state’s adoption system out of $1.68 million that was supposed to go toward the children’s care. (more…)