NEWSER) – A clue in NEWSER) – A clue in photos of the
recently recovered boat of two missing Florida teens opens up some disturbing
possibilities, according to the lawyer of one boy's mother. Guy Rubin tells
WPBF that the photos show the boat's battery switch and ignition key in the off
position, signaling that it was "disabled intentionally," not by a
storm. Rubin, who represents Perry Cohen's mother, says he doesn't want to be
"alarmist," but "maybe they were abducted. Or maybe there was
foul play because they had thousands of dollars' worth of reels." Perry
and his friend Austin Stephanos, both 14, vanished after setting off from
Jupiter, Fla., for a fishing trip last July and were never heard from again.
"Why would they turn the engine and battery off? Were
they broken down? Maybe there was a third person aboard," Rubin says.
Local boating experts, however, tell the Palm Beach Post that it could easily
be the case that the boys had simply turned the engine off to stop and fish, or
turned the battery off to conserve power. The Cohen and Stephanos families have
been at odds since the boys disappeared, People reports. The Cohens filed a
lawsuit earlier this week to block the release of Austin's iPhone to his family,
arguing it could hold clues and that authorities should keep it until an
impartial expert conducted a full examination. The phone has now been released
to the Stephanos family, which has promised to share any recovered information
with the Cohens. (The Norwegian ship captain who spotted the boys' boat says it
was an amazing stroke of luck.) photos of the recently recovered boat of two
missing Florida teens opens up some disturbing possibilities, according to the
lawyer of one boy's mother. Guy Rubin tells WPBF that the photos show the
boat's battery switch and ignition key in the off position, signaling that it
was "disabled intentionally," not by a storm. Rubin, who represents
Perry Cohen's mother, says he doesn't want to be "alarmist," but
"maybe they were abducted. Or maybe there was foul play because they had
thousands of dollars' worth of reels." Perry and his friend Austin
Stephanos, both 14, vanished after setting off from Jupiter, Fla., for a
fishing trip last July and were never heard from again.
"Why would they turn the engine and battery off? Were
they broken down? Maybe there was a third person aboard," Rubin says.
Local boating experts, however, tell the Palm Beach Post that it could easily
be the case that the boys had simply turned the engine off to stop and fish, or
turned the battery off to conserve power. The Cohen and Stephanos families have
been at odds since the boys disappeared, People reports. The Cohens filed a
lawsuit earlier this week to block the release of Austin's iPhone to his
family, arguing it could hold clues and that authorities should keep it until
an impartial expert conducted a full examination. The phone has now been
released to the Stephanos family, which has promised to share any recovered
information with the Cohens. (The Norwegian ship captain who spotted the boys'
boat says it was an amazing stroke of luck.)by rob quinn
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