Area investigators now know that, in all likelihood, young Robert Bee Jr. never left the rural Pekin woods where his tentatively identified remains were found Monday. How and when he arrived there remains unknown, but police now have a sharper focus on the case that increasingly appears to be a homicide. Until Monday, investigators still could not rule out the chance that Bee, 13, had "run away or was still (alive) in Pekin," police Detective Lt. Seth Ranney said Wednesday. "Obviously, we can rule those scenarios out (now), and focus on what caused this boy's death," he said...
