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Child's Body Found in Dump Near Where Somer Thompson, 7, Vanished - ABC News


Society & Culture  (tags: child, Somer Thompson, Missing Child )

Kelli
- 44 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A child's body was found today in a Georgia landfill just across the Florida state line where 7-year-old Somer Thompson disappeared two days ago.
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Jenny Dooley (448)
Wednesday October 21, 2009, 8:27 pm
Thanks Kelli
 

Electra Cy (934)
Wednesday October 21, 2009, 8:42 pm
:(

 

Catherine Turley (47)
Wednesday October 21, 2009, 9:24 pm
can we let kids go anywhere? if they play in their apt. courtyard, they aren't safe. i walk my neighbor's kids back home and they only live one house away. laws have got to change.
 

charles mclachlan (861)
Thursday October 22, 2009, 12:37 am
big thanks kelli, poor kid and her family my heart goes out to them .
 

Kelli Stowe (207)
Thursday October 22, 2009, 4:34 pm
(CNN) -- The body of a child found in a south Georgia landfill has been identified as that of a missing 7-year-old Florida girl, Clay County, Florida, Sheriff Rick Beseler said Thursday morning.
Somer Thompson, 7, went missing Monday on her way home from school.

Somer Thompson, 7, went missing Monday on her way home from school.

John Bankhead of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told CNN the state medical examiner will positively determine whether the body is that of Somer Thompson, who went missing Monday. An autopsy will be conducted in Savannah, Georgia.

The preliminary identification was based on the girl's clothing and a birthmark, Beseler said.

Authorities now are turning their full attention to finding the child's killer. Beseler held up a map dotted with markers as he told CNN's "American Morning" that detectives have questioned more than 70 registered sex offenders or predators living within five square miles of Somer's home.

The landfill where her body was found is near Folkston, Georgia, 55 miles north of where the girl became separated from her schoolmates on her way home from school in Orange Park, Florida, on Monday.

The sheriff told the girl's mother Wednesday night that her daughter had been identified. The mother, he said, was devastated.
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"It was the hardest phone call I've ever had to make in my life, and I hope I never have to make another one like that," Beseler said at a Thursday morning news conference. Video Watch sheriff announce that girl's body identified »

Authorities will work to pinpoint where the garbage load that contained the girl's body came from, Beseler said. The garbage that was brought into that part of the landfill was collected in the Orange Park area, Beseler had said Wednesday, noting that authorities routinely search garbage when a missing person case has been initiated.

The investigation has now turned into a murder probe.

"There is a child killer on the loose," the sheriff said. "I fear for our community until we bring this person in."

Rewards totaling $30,000 have been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible.
 

Cheree Million (133)
Saturday October 24, 2009, 1:35 am
Sad. My thoughts & prays are w/ the Thompson Family. I pray the cops are close to catching you ever killed this precious little girl. RIP Somer.
 
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