In Georgia, Missing Boy, 6, Is Found Dead
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BRUNSWICK, GA. — A 6-year-old boy who vanished a week ago while playing near his trailer-park home was found slain yesterday after a registered sex offender and three other neighbors stymied investigators for days with conflicting stories of the youngster’s fate.
Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said all four suspects would probably be charged with murder in the slaying of Christopher Michael Barrios.
A state ranger about three miles from the youngster’s home discovered Christopher’s partially concealed body. Mr. Doering said it was obvious the boy had been killed, but he would not say how and would not disclose how long the body had been there.
Earlier this week, police arrested four people — a convicted child molester living in the trailer park, his parents, and a friend of theirs — in connection with the boy’s disappearance.
Investigators said the four told a tangle of conflicting and ever-shifting stories — that they knew nothing about the boy’s disappearance, that the boy was still alive, and that he had been abducted, killed, and buried.
