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Theresa
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 Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:34 pm Three missing boys found dead |
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| Quote: | Father finds young friends in car trunk
Friday, June 24, 2005; Posted: 11:25 p.m. EDT (03:25 GMT)
Sheets were hung around the car where three boys were found dead Friday night.
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.
CNN's Allan Chernoff contributed to this report.
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| Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:37 pm |
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Thats so sad  I hope that they find out what really happend!
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Theresa
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| Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:04 am |
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Looks like it was an accident, 
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| Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:53 am |
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I feel real sorry for the guy who found them... I mean, finding children's corpses in the boot of your car is not good for your mind.
Accidents like this happen quite often. A few months ago, two toddlers were crushed to death when they tried to climb up a chest of drawers and it fell on top of them.
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| Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:43 am |
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God... That's so sad. Children dying is always sad, no matter how. I hope they soon find out what happened so the families can find closure and start grieving.
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| Sun Jun 26, 2005 5:54 am |
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| Theresa wrote: | | Looks like it was an accident, |
Awww What were they doing? Playing hide `n` seek? Something like this happened here once, kids were playing hid `n` seek and one got in the boot, and the boot shut and locked! When they found the kid it was to late
But stuff like this is so sad! I mean kids dont really think that they could die from doing stuff like that, thats what makes me upset!!
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| Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:01 am |
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Life sucks 4 sure.. nasty 
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| Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:07 am |
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This is a sad news story to hear. I hope that they find out what happend. I mean... you never know what they could've been in the future.. how far they could've gone. My prayers to them, there family, and friends as well.
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| Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:27 pm |
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I heard about this on the news on Friday. Thought it was awful for the parents of the kids and the guy that found them.
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| Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:55 pm |
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So sad I feel bad for the family
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