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07-03-2007, 12:52 PM
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LOUISVILLE (WAVE) -- A two-man team from Washington DC is in Louisville to consult with metro police as they continue their search for a 4-year-old boy who went missing June 29th. They're from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and they bring with them a wealth of experience and resources. As WAVE 3's Mark Schnyder reports, they're ready to help in any way possible.
Brook Schaub, a retired police officer and Lou Genide, a retired FBI agent, say metro police are doing everything they should be doing to find 4-year-old César Ivan Aguilar-Cano -- who answers to Ivan -- in and around the Louisville area.
They say their resources come into play if Ivan has somehow left the state or even the country.
He's small, he's young and he could be anywhere. That's why police and volunteers have been looking just about everywhere.
After three days and still no sign of Ivan, metro police are welcoming help from a national organization that helps find lost kids.
"Just the fact that we're here, if that increases the media attention and therefore help from the public, it's all good," said Schaub.
The pair is helping police distribute posters with Ivan's picture and description at hospitals, amusement parks and police departments within a 99-mile radius of Louisville. They say they have the resources to expand that effort around the country and outside the country if need be.
And here in Louisville Schaub says, "if they need more cadaver dogs, we'll arrange for them to come in. If the family needs support services, we have those at the center. If there's equipment issues and an agency doesn't have them, we'll be happy to make it happen."
The consultants were planning to be in town for at least five days, and could stay longer if metro police ask them to. These outside experts say they're very comfortable with the way metro police has handled this investigation so far.
"Based on what we've observed, everything that needs to be done either has been done or is on the to-do list," Genide said.
Schaub and Genide are asking everyone living near the boy's Churchill Downs neighborhood to check their property thoroughly -- things like car trunks, old sheds or appliances left in garages. Unfortunately, they're all places where lost children have been known to turn up.
Meanwhile, metro police is looking into every tip that comes its way.
Anyone with information on this case is urged to call 574-LMPD or just dial 911.
Online Reporter: Mark Schnyder (mschnyder@wave3.com)
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Police: 'This may be our missing child'
July 8, 2007 04:41 PM EDT
LOUISVILLE (WAVE) -- The investigation of an unidentified child's body found in a garbage truck on Saturday is being called a homicide and a police spokesperson says there are consistencies with a boy who has been missing for 9 days.
Jefferson County deputy coroner Gayle Norris tells WAVE 3 News that an autopsy Sunday revealed the death of the young male child was a homicide, but the manner in which the child died is undetermined. Norris said further studies are needed and it will be another 24 to 48 hours before a positive identification is made.
The body was found by city sanitation workers in the back of a garbage truck at Fourth and Central at 7:25 a.m. Saturday. The sanitation crew had been on its weekly trash collection route in the area. The trash pickup had been delayed one day this week because of the Fourth of July holiday.
The area where the body was found is the same area where four year old Cezar Ivan Aguliar Cano was last seen on June 29th. Ivan -- as he is called by his family -- is 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing a yellow tank top, gray shorts and was not wearing shoes.
LMPD spokesperson Alicia Smiley said Sunday that police are still conducting parallel investigations -- one for the body in the garbage truck and another for the missing boy. But Smiley also told WAVE 3, "we have spoken with the parents of the missing child and we have let them know that consistency and circumstances indicate there is a strong possibility that this may be our missing child."
Anyone with information on either of these cases call the LMPD Crime Tip Line at 574-LMPD (5673).
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The family of a missing 4-year-old is holding out hope that a body police found in a garbage truck isn't their boy. Ivan Aguilar-Cano was playing near his home at the Oakdale Apartments when he disappeared Friday, June 29th. Saturday morning, trash workers discovered the body of a small male, just a few blocks away at Fourth and Central. Police can't say who the boy is or how he died: The autopsy is set for Sunday. But police chief Robert White says it's obvious foul play was involved.
It seems like they've come to say goodbye. At a candlelight vigil in a small south-end church, Ivan Aguilar Cano's family prays for the best. But it feels like a funeral. Chief Robert White, LMPD says "It was a small young male more than likely it was a child." This isn't the way the search or the story is supposed to end.
For if a child's body found in this garbage truck is Ivan it's not the way a 4-year-old life's supposed to end. White continues "We found a body in a bag, so I think it's reasonable to assume that certainly foul play could be expected."
Police Chief Robert White has presided over an intense week-long investigation. Ivan Cano went missing from his Churchill Downs area apartment 8 days ago. Police have checked and re-checked the area over and over again in a massive hunt for the boy ever since.
Saturday morning they might have gotten the break but not the news they wanted. Two Louisville garbage men whose normal route took them through Ivan's neighborhood, found a body in the back of their truck. Though police can't identify it yet, but they do say it's a young boy. They also say getting into the garbage wasn't an accident. "Given that the body was in a bag, I don't believe the individual put himself in a bag." White continues.
Police are now trying to trace the boy's body back to where it was likely dumped. Fox 41 News watched as detectives and medical examiners teamed up to pore through one set of garbage cans in particular: Set apart in police tape they sit right next to Ivan's apartment building.
White says "We'll be able to pinpoint, probably within the block they picked up that particular trash." It means for now police classify this as a mere death investigation. But it could soon escalate to something more. So this story still might not be over. For a new search a search for a killer might still start.
Of course, it may hardly matter, for they may still have to say goodbye. If you have any information, call the police. Their anonymous tip-line: 574-LMPD.
LOUISVILLE (WAVE) -- A two-man team from Washington DC is in Louisville to consult with metro police as they continue their search for a 4-year-old boy who went missing June 29th. They're from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and they bring with them a wealth of experience and resources. As WAVE 3's Mark Schnyder reports, they're ready to help in any way possible.
Brook Schaub, a retired police officer and Lou Genide, a retired FBI agent, say metro police are doing everything they should be doing to find 4-year-old César Ivan Aguilar-Cano -- who answers to Ivan -- in and around the Louisville area.
They say their resources come into play if Ivan has somehow left the state or even the country.
He's small, he's young and he could be anywhere. That's why police and volunteers have been looking just about everywhere.
After three days and still no sign of Ivan, metro police are welcoming help from a national organization that helps find lost kids.
"Just the fact that we're here, if that increases the media attention and therefore help from the public, it's all good," said Schaub.
The pair is helping police distribute posters with Ivan's picture and description at hospitals, amusement parks and police departments within a 99-mile radius of Louisville. They say they have the resources to expand that effort around the country and outside the country if need be.
And here in Louisville Schaub says, "if they need more cadaver dogs, we'll arrange for them to come in. If the family needs support services, we have those at the center. If there's equipment issues and an agency doesn't have them, we'll be happy to make it happen."
The consultants were planning to be in town for at least five days, and could stay longer if metro police ask them to. These outside experts say they're very comfortable with the way metro police has handled this investigation so far.
"Based on what we've observed, everything that needs to be done either has been done or is on the to-do list," Genide said.
Schaub and Genide are asking everyone living near the boy's Churchill Downs neighborhood to check their property thoroughly -- things like car trunks, old sheds or appliances left in garages. Unfortunately, they're all places where lost children have been known to turn up.
Meanwhile, metro police is looking into every tip that comes its way.
Anyone with information on this case is urged to call 574-LMPD or just dial 911.
Online Reporter: Mark Schnyder (mschnyder@wave3.com)
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Police: 'This may be our missing child'
July 8, 2007 04:41 PM EDT
LOUISVILLE (WAVE) -- The investigation of an unidentified child's body found in a garbage truck on Saturday is being called a homicide and a police spokesperson says there are consistencies with a boy who has been missing for 9 days.
Jefferson County deputy coroner Gayle Norris tells WAVE 3 News that an autopsy Sunday revealed the death of the young male child was a homicide, but the manner in which the child died is undetermined. Norris said further studies are needed and it will be another 24 to 48 hours before a positive identification is made.
The body was found by city sanitation workers in the back of a garbage truck at Fourth and Central at 7:25 a.m. Saturday. The sanitation crew had been on its weekly trash collection route in the area. The trash pickup had been delayed one day this week because of the Fourth of July holiday.
The area where the body was found is the same area where four year old Cezar Ivan Aguliar Cano was last seen on June 29th. Ivan -- as he is called by his family -- is 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing a yellow tank top, gray shorts and was not wearing shoes.
LMPD spokesperson Alicia Smiley said Sunday that police are still conducting parallel investigations -- one for the body in the garbage truck and another for the missing boy. But Smiley also told WAVE 3, "we have spoken with the parents of the missing child and we have let them know that consistency and circumstances indicate there is a strong possibility that this may be our missing child."
Anyone with information on either of these cases call the LMPD Crime Tip Line at 574-LMPD (5673).
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The family of a missing 4-year-old is holding out hope that a body police found in a garbage truck isn't their boy. Ivan Aguilar-Cano was playing near his home at the Oakdale Apartments when he disappeared Friday, June 29th. Saturday morning, trash workers discovered the body of a small male, just a few blocks away at Fourth and Central. Police can't say who the boy is or how he died: The autopsy is set for Sunday. But police chief Robert White says it's obvious foul play was involved.
It seems like they've come to say goodbye. At a candlelight vigil in a small south-end church, Ivan Aguilar Cano's family prays for the best. But it feels like a funeral. Chief Robert White, LMPD says "It was a small young male more than likely it was a child." This isn't the way the search or the story is supposed to end.
For if a child's body found in this garbage truck is Ivan it's not the way a 4-year-old life's supposed to end. White continues "We found a body in a bag, so I think it's reasonable to assume that certainly foul play could be expected."
Police Chief Robert White has presided over an intense week-long investigation. Ivan Cano went missing from his Churchill Downs area apartment 8 days ago. Police have checked and re-checked the area over and over again in a massive hunt for the boy ever since.
Saturday morning they might have gotten the break but not the news they wanted. Two Louisville garbage men whose normal route took them through Ivan's neighborhood, found a body in the back of their truck. Though police can't identify it yet, but they do say it's a young boy. They also say getting into the garbage wasn't an accident. "Given that the body was in a bag, I don't believe the individual put himself in a bag." White continues.
Police are now trying to trace the boy's body back to where it was likely dumped. Fox 41 News watched as detectives and medical examiners teamed up to pore through one set of garbage cans in particular: Set apart in police tape they sit right next to Ivan's apartment building.
White says "We'll be able to pinpoint, probably within the block they picked up that particular trash." It means for now police classify this as a mere death investigation. But it could soon escalate to something more. So this story still might not be over. For a new search a search for a killer might still start.
Of course, it may hardly matter, for they may still have to say goodbye. If you have any information, call the police. Their anonymous tip-line: 574-LMPD.