Law Enforcement Sources 90 Percent Sure Eli Quick is Not Buddy
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: A case that's been talked about quite a bit over the past couple of days. Tristen Buddy Myers, a little boy who's been missing since October 2000, and the little boy who looks remarkably similar to him, Eli Quick in Evanston, Illinois. Mike Brooks is joining us with some new information on this. Everybody's waiting to hear -- is this the same little boy?</s>MIKE BROOKS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Heidi, right now, I've been talking to sources close to the investigation, and they're been telling me that through the interviews the FBI's done with the father and through preliminary DNA testing that was being done at the FBI lab, they're saying now that they are 90 percent sure that there is not a connection between the two boys. Now, as we know, the young boy, Eli Quick in Evanston, Illinois, and Tristen Buddy Myers, who's been missing from his North Carolina home since October 2000. They thought that this young boy that turned up in Evanston, Illinois, at a hospital there, could have been the missing boy, Tristen Buddy Myers, but they say now they are 90 percent sure there's not a connection between the two boys. Now, they're going to wait for the final DNA results to come back. But through their investigative leads and through preliminary DNA testing they're doing at the FBI lab, they're saying that they believe, sources close to the investigation believe that there is not a connection between the two boys.</s>COLLINS: You've done an awful lot of investigative work, probably similar to this, I would imagine. You say it was a combination between this preliminary DNA test and things that the father said. Any indication of what those things might have been that led them to think this?</s>BROOKS: One of the things, Heidi, is eye color. Apparently, there's a difference in the eye color between buddy and the boy Eli Quick in Evanston, Illinois, and that was another thing the investigators were looking at. They're also looking at dental records, fingerprints, all these that they say were inconclusive. But the preliminary DNA tests, which they say is pretty strong, they're 90 percent sure there's no connection between the two boys. Now again, that's going to really -- the folks in North Carolina, his aunt and uncle there, and his mother, have been on a roller coaster ride since he disappeared. But they were hoping this was, for sure, their son and their nephew. But right now, law enforcement sources are saying it looks 90 percent sure that it is not.</s>COLLINS: We will continue to follow that until it becomes 100 percent. CNN's Mike Brooks, thanks so much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Buddy>