Police Complete Search Of Garfield Park Lagoon, Additional Remains Of Toddler Not Found
Chicago police have completed their search of the Garfield Park lagoon but did not find any additional body parts belong to a toddler.
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Chicago police have completed their search of the Garfield Park lagoon but did not find any additional body parts belong to a toddler.
Chicago Police are expanding their search to try to find more remains of a child found dismembered in the Garfield Park lagoon last weekend.
Chicago police have released a sketch of the toddler whose severed head, hands, and feet were found in the Garfield Park lagoon over the weekend.
Chicago police continued to drain the Garfield Park lagoon on Wednesday, searching for more evidence after a child's severed head, hands, and feet were found in the water over the weekend. Officers also were going door to door in the neighborhood, to try and gather information that might help them solve the mystery.
Police began draining the lagoon at Garfield Park as investigators continue their probe of the death of a child whose body parts were found there over the weekend.
Officials said Saturday evening that the body parts of a child, including a foot, had been recovered in the 200 block of McCrea Drive, but Monday's announcement offered additional detail about the victim.
Neighbors say a person fishing found a foot and called police, who then found another foot and two arms in the shallow water, WBBM's Nancy Harty reports.
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