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Body found less than 100 yards from home
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
It took trained dogs about 15 minutes Saturday to locate the remains of a missing toddler who may have died at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend.
Harold Cheyenne Harris, 22 months, was found less than 100 yards from his home in a wooded area on Press Road, according to Sheriff Thomas Kerss.
Warrants have been issued for the child's mother, Amber McEntire, 22, and her boyfriend, Darrell Yates III, 26. The two have fled the area and are believed to be in Mexico.
Although Kerss has not released all the details of the case, he has said the mother withdrew the boy from day care in late October telling workers that Harold was going to stay with his biological father in Shelby County.
That story proved to be false.
On Friday, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent a representative from "Team Adam" to Nacogdoches to offer assistance in the case. Team Adam is a program named after the abducted and murdered son of John and Reve Walsh. Walsh is the host of "America's Most Wanted," and he and his wife are co-founders of the NCMEC.
Paul Burke, the Team Adam consultant assigned to Harold's case, said a team of certified search and rescue dogs and their handlers came to Nacogdoches Saturday from The Woodlands.
The team, "Special K-9's Search and Recovery," has a proven track record, Burke said.
"The dogs roamed and played around the site until they were used to the area and the terrain," he said. "Then, we broke the dogs into three teams and worked three areas around the residence."
Each team consisted of one dog, one handler and one support person, Burke said.
Within 15 minutes, Harold was found by a yellow Lab named "Kyla." Now, Harold's family can begin planning a proper burial for the baby.
Jana Bickel of "Special K-9's" said the team was thankful that the search ended successfully.
"This really provides some closure for the family," she said.
Burke said that finding Harold will help investigators in a couple of different ways. Through an autopsy, they will be able to determine how he died. They will also be able to focus their investigation on finding those responsible for his death.
Burke said the discovery of Harold's remains less than 100 yards from his house was consistent with other cases in which children have been victims of foul play. Most often, he said children are found with a half-mile of their homes.
Kerss said the autopsy should give investigators more clues about what happened to Harold.
The results of the autopsy will not be immediately released, Kerss said. Investigators hope to apprehend McEntire and Yates, because "they hold the clues to this mystery."
As of Monday, Kerss said it had been four or five days since anyone in Nacogdoches had heard from McEntire or Yates.
More: http://www.dailysentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/11/08/20051108NDSbody.html
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
It took trained dogs about 15 minutes Saturday to locate the remains of a missing toddler who may have died at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend.
Harold Cheyenne Harris, 22 months, was found less than 100 yards from his home in a wooded area on Press Road, according to Sheriff Thomas Kerss.
Warrants have been issued for the child's mother, Amber McEntire, 22, and her boyfriend, Darrell Yates III, 26. The two have fled the area and are believed to be in Mexico.
Although Kerss has not released all the details of the case, he has said the mother withdrew the boy from day care in late October telling workers that Harold was going to stay with his biological father in Shelby County.
That story proved to be false.
On Friday, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent a representative from "Team Adam" to Nacogdoches to offer assistance in the case. Team Adam is a program named after the abducted and murdered son of John and Reve Walsh. Walsh is the host of "America's Most Wanted," and he and his wife are co-founders of the NCMEC.
Paul Burke, the Team Adam consultant assigned to Harold's case, said a team of certified search and rescue dogs and their handlers came to Nacogdoches Saturday from The Woodlands.
The team, "Special K-9's Search and Recovery," has a proven track record, Burke said.
"The dogs roamed and played around the site until they were used to the area and the terrain," he said. "Then, we broke the dogs into three teams and worked three areas around the residence."
Each team consisted of one dog, one handler and one support person, Burke said.
Within 15 minutes, Harold was found by a yellow Lab named "Kyla." Now, Harold's family can begin planning a proper burial for the baby.
Jana Bickel of "Special K-9's" said the team was thankful that the search ended successfully.
"This really provides some closure for the family," she said.
Burke said that finding Harold will help investigators in a couple of different ways. Through an autopsy, they will be able to determine how he died. They will also be able to focus their investigation on finding those responsible for his death.
Burke said the discovery of Harold's remains less than 100 yards from his house was consistent with other cases in which children have been victims of foul play. Most often, he said children are found with a half-mile of their homes.
Kerss said the autopsy should give investigators more clues about what happened to Harold.
The results of the autopsy will not be immediately released, Kerss said. Investigators hope to apprehend McEntire and Yates, because "they hold the clues to this mystery."
As of Monday, Kerss said it had been four or five days since anyone in Nacogdoches had heard from McEntire or Yates.
More: http://www.dailysentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/11/08/20051108NDSbody.html
Those poor sweet babies......
I hope they get what they deserve.
