Article: Internet key in search for boysCommunity kept abreast through Facebook, sites

LeROY - When the search for Jack and Duncan Leichtenberg ended in tragedy, Rhonda Cilley of Greenfield, N.H., was among the first to know.

Cilley, one of 4,900 members of the "the official jack and duncan" Facebook group, got a direct message around 6:20 a.m. Monday from a family friend who moderates the group.

It was close to 9 a.m. when police confirmed to the media, and the rest of the world, that the LeRoy boys were dead.

"My heart just broke," Cilley said in an e-mail.

The boys and the body of their father, Michael Connolly, were found late Sunday afternoon in a remote area of Putnam County. They had been missing since March 8, when the boys failed to return home after a scheduled ...

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