Hiding in Plain Sight?

A most incredible story of alleged crime

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
The New York Times

Filed 2.1.07
EL MIRAGE, Ariz., Jan. 31 — To neighbors, Casey Price was a seventh grader with acne and a baseball cap who lived an unremarkable life among a bevy of male relatives.

He built the occasional skateboard ramp and did wheelies on his bicycle down the streets of this subdivision of stucco homes north of Phoenix.

In nearby Surprise, where Casey was enrolled as a 12-year-old in a public school for four months, he was regarded as a shy, average student with chronic attendance problems. A man identified as his uncle had registered him, attended curriculum night and e-mailed his teachers about homework assignments.

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Photo captions & credits: "Neil H. Rodreick II" courtsey of Yavapai County Sheriff's Office