Source: NBC News
Authorities in Illinois were searching Sunday for a missing 5-year-old boy, Andrew Freund, who appeared to have vanished from his family’s home last week.
After Investigators in the suburban Chicago city of Crystal Lake unsuccessfully scoured hundreds of acres and searched the city’s lake for traces of Freund on Thursday, the local police department said in a statement that he had not been abducted and it did not appear that he walked away from his home.
No suspects have been identified in the boy’s disappearance, though the department said “information obtained currently has police focusing on the residence.”
Andrew’s parents told authorities they last saw him at roughly 9 p.m. local time on April 17, police said.
When the parents were unable to find the boy at home the next morning, they called police, the statement said.
Authorities then searched nearly 1,000 acres by foot and with drones, while sonar and underwater cameras were used to…
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