Mother, Man Arrested In Investigation Into Missing New Hampshire 5-Year-Old Elijah Lewis
“We’re trying to find Elijah. We hope we’re going to find him in good condition. But I would be less than honest if I didn’t say that the chances of that are not looking great at this point,” Senior Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Agati said Monday.
Investigators said the boy’s father does not live in New Hampshire, but is aware of what is happening with the search.
“At this point, we’re hoping it’s not a recovery mission,” Agati said. “We’re hoping somehow that we are going to go under a rock somewhere and find out that someone has taken him in, maybe there is some sort of mistaken identity that’s going on out there or he’s been misidentified. But right now, we are fearful that may be the direction we are headed.”
Investigators had search dogs out Monday, as they moved from the home where the couple lived, to the pond behind it, to some woods across the street.
“There’s an abandoned house on the other side,” said a neighbor, pointing to the woods. “Then there’s a camp out in back of that with some cabins and stuff.” He said neighbors never saw the boy. “We never saw this little boy, and several of us are just aghast that there was a five-year-old living there,” he said.