BREAKING: Body of 5-year-old Andrew Freund found; parents who reported him missing charged with murder, police say.
in suburban Chicago was found Wednesday buried in a shallow grave, and his parents were charged with murder, police said.
Black said Andrew's parents, JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr., were interviewed by detectives and gave them information that led them to a shallow grave in Woodstock, Illinois, about 20 minutes from the family's home in Crystal Lake.Andrew's parents told police they last saw him at roughly 9 p.m. on April 17.
The day Andrew was reported missing, his mother was arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant stemming from a December 2018 incident for driving with a suspended license. According to an incident report, Cunningham drove to a nearby fast-food restaurant to have someone call the police to report an alleged burglary at her home.
Another officer wrote that the house was"cluttered, dirty and in despair" and the smell of feces was"overwhelming." One of Cunningham's two kids also had a large bruise on his right hip, the officer wrote. The children were removed from the home and taken to the police station after Cunningham was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
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