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Portland, ME (ZipcarPress) – A missing child was found dead today after days of police following up on a missing persons report the parents of suburban Portland filed on Sunday.
Police have been on the search this entire week with the limited information they had. The parents positively identified the body today.
This family lived in the abandoned Maine Buffet; the parents said they didn’t see any signs of discontent or disgruntledness in their children. They did know this particular child was rather adventurous. When they saw their little one had wandered off, they didn’t think anything of it. “Oh,” the mother said, “That’s just our boy being mischievous. Maybe he’ll meet a bunch of nice girls. Maybe he’ll even bring back some food. It did not even cross my mind that would be the last time I’d see him.”
“He wanders off all the time,” said the father. “He’s always in by dark, but it was raining pretty steadily that day. He might have gotten stranded.”
The youngster was found in a first-floor hotel room of the Rodeway Inn, located next door to the Maine Buffet. He was lying near some phone wire that connects the phone to the wall jack. Forensics said the little one might have started choking, tried calling the front desk, and when he pushed zero for the front desk, he realized the phone didn’t work. He tried fixing the phone as a last-ditch effort to get help.
The parents just want some closure as to whether this really was an accident.
Police said whoever was staying there on Sunday appears to have left in a hurry. “Like a tornado passed through.”
Autopsy reports reveal the child’s stomach had pieces of a plastic bag he had chewed on and swallowed. Normally such an action makes quite a bit of noise. “That would explain why those guests left so quickly,” the officer said.
The police have tried tracking these guests. When they inquired the Rodeway Inn’s manager as to the guests’ whereabouts, the manager “did not know” because he was “not there.”
Investigators have spanned other Rodeway Inns in neighboring states for these potential witnesses. In this hunt, the officials passed the lush, ritzy Days Inn of Lebanon, but they kept driving.
Services for the child will be held this evening beneath booth #4 of the abandoned Maine Buffet.
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