It appears to be true; although, I did some more reading www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/12/30/news/top_story/151787.txt , ah, the blame game.

		adrianaec_88 wrote:
		OMG is that true, where did you read it? who the hell in this fucking world can do such a thing like that?      Bev wrote: Some guy was taking his kids to visit their Mom on Christmas day.  The kids (a boy and girl) are/were 12 / 11.  The truck the man was driving got stuck in the snow, which had drifted 4'.  He told the kids to walk the rest of the way to their mother's house.  The Mom calls the next day, wondering where the children were.  No one had called to let her know they were walking to her house.  The girl's body was found 2 miles from the where their trek began, and the boy was found 4 miles away at a rest area.  hmmm?