Georgia's Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley said Tuesday investigators had “entered a new phase in the search for Quinton Simon,” who has been missing since Oct. 5.
told reporters on Tuesday investigators had"entered a new phase in the search for Quinton Simon" when they recently began searching the Waste Management landfill located in the county. Hadley was joined by FBI Savannah Senior Supervisory Special Agent Will Clark.
What the authorities are trying to do is to find sufficient evidence that the mother actually did something harmful to the child.Asked during the press conference whether investigators believed Quinton was taken to the landfill, or if his body was"thrown in the trash" and then ended up at the landfill, Hadley responded:"We believe that he was placed in a specific dumpster at a specific location, and it was brought here by regular means.
He emphasized that although police had identified the child's mother, Leilani Simon, as their main suspect,"they are still gathering evidence.""They are still trying to put together a case that would be prosecutable," Williams went on."There is always a possibility, irrespective of not finding the child's body, that pursuant to circumstantial evidence alone, that they could make an arrest in this case.
"So, what the authorities are trying to do is to find sufficient evidence that the mother actually did something harmful to the child," he explained."The mere fact that the child may be dead is really not enough for them to say that the mother did something that would be of a criminal nature, such as killing the child."Quinton was
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