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Rupey
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Three Missing Boys Found Dead
« on: Jun 24^th, 2005, 11:13pm »

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CAMDEN, New Jersey (CNN) -- Three young boys missing for two days were found dead Friday night in the trunk of a car by one child's father, who jumped away screaming and sobbing after his grim discovery.

Later he fell to the ground yelling, "Let me go! Let me go!" as several men sought to hold and console him.

A large crowd quickly gathered, crying and shouting, not far from the home of one of the children, 11-year-old Anibal Cruz.

Cruz, 6-year-old Daniel Agosto and 5-year-old Jesstin Pagan had been missing since Wednesday.

"We are saddened by the events that have turned up this evening," Police Chief Edwin J. Figueroa told reporters late Friday. "As you know ... the three children have been found, and they were found in the trunk of a car."

The cause of their deaths is unknown, and police were not ruling out the possibility that it was an accident, Figueroa said. He said the car -- a maroon Toyota Camry -- was an older model, and had no device in the trunk that would allow someone inside to open it.

Figueroa said he didn't know when the autopsies would be completed.

"Preliminary indications show that the vehicle was located there" when the hunt for the boys got under way in that area Thursday morning with the help of a bloodhound, he said.

"We know the car was searched," Figueroa added. He said logs will be examined to find out which officers were at that site. Many police officers were extremely upset over the discovery of the bodies, he said.

"We have a very fresh and active investigation in this case," said Camden County Prosecutor Vincent Sarubbi at the same news conference. "There are many issues that we have to look into."

The families of the children, he said, were "extremely distraught and grieving." They were receiving counseling to help them cope with their losses.

Sarubbi initially said investigators were treating the area where the car was found as a crime scene, but then said it was an "open investigation. We haven't determined whether this was foul play or just a tragic accident."

The bodies were found about 7 p.m. in the Cramer Hill neighborhood.

After the discovery, police cordoned off the area with crime tape, then hung sheets over it to hide the car from view near a wooded area.

The children were last seen around 5 p.m. Wednesday playing in the side yard of Cruz's home. Daniel Agosto lived nearby, while Jesstin Pagan lived farther away.

Elba Cruz, Anibal's mother, said she left the three children playing in the yard for five to 10 minutes while she cooked dinner. When she returned, they were gone.

There was a massive search for the boys by police, firefighters and other officials, using dogs, helicopters and boats.

Police had said they did an exhaustive search of the entire neighborhood, about three square miles. Earlier Friday, police announced a $9,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the boys.

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Re: Three Missing Boys Found Dead
« Reply #1 on: Jun 24^th, 2005, 11:14pm »

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How indescribably heartbreaking. I can't begin to imagine the grief their poor parents are going through.

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« Reply #2 on: Jun 24^th, 2005, 11:32pm »

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What I don't understand is why the bloodhounds didn't detect that they were in the trunk. And why wasn't the trunk searched?

Having lost a child to an accident, I know how these famlies are feeling. I only hope the whole story is answered.

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« Reply #3 on: Jun 24^th, 2005, 11:38pm »

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I wondered the same about the bloodhounds.

Rcs, I didn't realize you'd lost a child to an accident. I'm so sorry.

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« Reply #4 on: Jun 25^th, 2005, 7:05am »

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If the kids had accidentally locked themselves in the trunk, wouldn't they have made a racket to get help? I would have thought the bloodhounds would have picked up a scent, or would all of the searchers scents thrown them off?

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« Reply #5 on: Jun 25^th, 2005, 7:58am »

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Being in a locked trunk and 3 of them with the heat it probably didn't take long to use up the oxygen.Maybe they tried and no one heard them.
Oh, how awful! Cry

My grown kids know they will hear me say sometime this weekend,
"Caution the children about this!" as I'm sure parents and grandparents
have been doing already. Very very sad!

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Re: Three Missing Boys Found Dead
« Reply #6 on: Jun 25^th, 2005, 8:30am »

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I am just heartbroken over this. :bigcry:

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« Reply #7 on: Jun 26^th, 2005, 7:54am »

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They may not have been in there accidentally - can just see kids that age thinking it would be a "good place to hide". I remember my cousin once getting lost in a department store when he was about three. Security had locked the doors and were searching everywhere for him. He was under a rack of clothes that hung to the floor, lying on the floor, watching them search... to him it was just a big game of "hide and seek." These three might have been the same way.

The best reason for remembering to remove the latch attachments on anything that closes and has been "dumped" outside (car truncks, old regfrigerators, etc.) That way the truck won't latch, and they could have pushed it back open...

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« Reply #8 on: Jun 26^th, 2005, 11:16am »

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Several things about this bother me. First of all, if the kids were playing in that yard by that car, and had been known to play in it, wouldn't it make sense to check it first? Now the police are going to take the blame for not checking the car, and chances are they had been out of air by the time they seached it. Even so, they should have asked the parents to open the trunk or popped it. It's easy to second guess after a terrible tragedy like this. It should act as a incentive to parents everywhere to disable locks and door latches on discarded or non-working cars and such.

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