Re-posting a portion of this article from yesterday...
HPD: Child remains, clothes found in Arkansas 'lead us to believe it is Maleah'
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HPD detectives flew in based on a tip.
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Sheriff James Singleton immediately sent eight deputies to check it out.
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After an hour of searching, Hempstead County deputies, Arkansas State Police and Arkansas Game and Fish officers got word that
a crew picking up litter found a garbage bag covered in blood and worms 12 miles south.
The crew found it three days ago, reported it to a supervisor but left it, according to Sheriff Singleton.
Before investigators found it,
a separate crew mowing tall grass in the area ran over the bag.
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The
clothes, jewelry and clues around the bag were enough, though, for Hempstead County’s coroner to allow the remains to be flown back to Houston.
Miller, who paid for the plane that carried authorities and the remains, has no doubts it is Maleah.
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