DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Police in Delray Beach said Wednesday evening that a second child's body has been found near where a girl's body was discovered earlier in the day.
Police said the boy was between 10 and 12 years old. His body was found in a suitcase in a canal, just west of the area where a duffel bag containing a girl's body was found hours earlier.
Delray Beach police said the first body, belonging to a girl between 6 and 12 years old, was found about 9 a.m. Wednesday in a canal that divides Boca Raton and Delray Beach. The boy's body was found shortly after that.
Police said the girl was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark pants and blue Polo brand sneakers. She also had braided hair with white beads on each strand.
The girl's body was taken to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office, where they were trying to determine a cause of death.
Delray Beach Police are seeking the public's help to identify a child's body found in a duffel bag on Wednesday.
The girl was discovered around 9 a.m. in the black duffel bag in the C-15 canal that separates Delray Beach and Boca Raton, according to Delray Beach Police Sgt. Nicole Guerriero.
The little girl is described as black, between 6 and 12, and weighing between 70 and 90 pounds. She is just over 4 feet tall and her hair was braided with white or clear beads, according to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office.
She was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark-colored pants and blue 'Polo' brand sneakers, Guerriero said.
The duffel bag was found in the canal midway between the Carl Bolter Drive bridge and Congress Avenue overpass, she said.
Investigators don't know how long the body was in the water or how it got there.
"There's lots of access to this canal," Guerriero said. "It could be [tossed] from a bridge, it could [have floated there] from another city, who knows?"
The canal current flows east from U.S. 441 west to the Intracoastal Waterway.
Police were releasing as much information as they could as fast as they could to try to identify the child as quickly as possible, she said.
"We're checking national databases trying to see if there's any [missing] child that matches the description," Guerriero said.
Police ask anyone with information to contact Delray Beach police Detective Pete Sosa at 561-243-7828.
DELRAY BEACH — The body of a second child was found today stuffed into a suitcase and apparently tossed into a canal on the city's south side, hours after police discovered a dead little girl shrouded in a duffle bag floating in the water.
City police said they had yet to identify the children this evening but are investigating the cases as related.
Delray Beach Police say that a resident near Avocet Road and Carl Bolter Drive reported a bag floating in the C-15 canal, which divides Boca Raton and Delray Beach, around 9 a.m. Wednesday.
When the department's dive team recovered the bag, they found that a young black girl was packed inside.
Since finding the girl, police said investigators have checked national missing children's notifications and found none that match the girl's description.
Even the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is now involved in the investigation, which is ongoing, said Sgt. Nicole Guerriero, spokeswoman for the Delray Beach Police Department.
The body of the girl appears to be in the 6- to 12-year age range, weighing 70-90 pounds and about 4 to 4 1/2-feet tall, Guerriero said.
She added that the girl was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark pants and blue Polo brand sneakers.
Also, Guerriero said the girl's hair was braided with 8-10 clear and white beads in every strand.
Although she could not say whether the girl was injured in any way, she confirmed that the child's body was not dismembered.
The girl's body was sent to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office to determine the time and cause of death.
Jeff Strohsahl, a nearby resident who listened to the police debriefing, called the news "terrible" and "heartbreaking."
"Seems to be the trend of things happening now," Strohsahl said. "People being found dead."
But Strohsahl wasn't too concerned that anyone in his neighborhood could have anything to do with the incident, stating that anyone along the canal could've been the culprit.
The C-15 canal runs from as far west as U..S. 441 all the way into the Intracoastal Waterway. And since the canal's current runs east or west, depending on the tide, the girl's body could have been dropped anywhere, Guerriero said.
"We don't have reason to believe that anybody else is in danger," Guerriero added.
The discovery is being treated as a homicide, and police ask that anyone with information about the girl call Delray Beach Police Homicide Det. Peter Sosa at (561) 243-7828.
(CNN) -- Investigators will return Thursday for a more extensive search of a South Florida canal where the bodies of two children were found stuffed in luggage.
The remains of two African-American children -- a girl between 6 and 10 years old, and a boy believed to be 10 to 12 -- were found Wednesday about six hours and a half-mile apart in the canal that separates Delray Beach from Boca Raton.
The girl's body was found first, after a passerby alerted police to a duffel bag floating about midway across the canal; the boy's body turned up in a suitcase closer in as investigators combed the banks for evidence, said Sgt. Nicole Guerriero, a Delray Beach police spokeswoman.
"We're devastated, and someone is missing these children," Guerriero told reporters Wednesday evening. "Someone knows these children, and we need to know who these kids are."
Police are working on the assumption that the deaths are related, and are asking the public to get involved.
"If anyone has not seen their grandchild, their niece, their nephew, please give us a call," Guerriero said.
The bodies showed no obvious signs of trauma, Guerriero told HLN's "Nancy Grace." The bodies had been in the water long enough to have been affected by the immersion but were still intact, she said.
An autopsy is planned, and investigators are checking missing persons reports in an attempt to identify who the two children might be.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- Divers are set to continue searching a South Florida canal, where the bodies of two children were found stuffed in luggage.
The Delray Beach Police Department's dive team plans to return there Thursday morning, one day after their gruesome discovery. The body of a little girl, believed to be between six and 10 years old, was found in a duffle bag floating in the canal Wednesday morning. Hours later, the body of a boy, believed to be between 10 and 12 years old, was found stuffed in a suitcase a half-mile away.
A homeowner was the first to alert police after noticing something suspicious floating in the canal.
Delray Beach Police said the canal is so large that the bodies could've been dumped from multiple locations. "This is really devastating, it's devastating for them, and for all of us as an agency," said Delray Beach Police Department Sergeant Nicole Guerriero. "It's horrific to think that something happened to these two children and this is the way that they were found. It's something that no one, as a police officer or as a detective, ever wants to see."
Police said the bodies didn't immediately match the descriptions of any known missing children. It is unclear how long the bodies have been floating in the canal.
There sure are a lot of wacked up fucktards around here in the sunshine state, it's absolutely despicable. It is just a little over a year ago when an infant was dumped in a canal by a road I travel over weekly. They still put fresh flowers & teddybears, & pictures at the site, very sad indeed! It never ends.
Carsman: Loves Living Large Home is where you're treated the best, but complain the most! Life is short, make the most of it, get outta here!
these poor children deserve names and people to properly bury and mourn them. :(
and i want to see the monster(s) who did this in custody.
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DELRAY BEACH — Divers from the Boca Raton Police Department joined Delray Beach police and fire-rescue this morning in a renewed search of a canal for any additional clues that might lead them to the identities of two kids' bodies found stuffed in luggage in the brackish water.
The divers are preparing to go into the waters of the C-15 canal near Congress Avenue, and plan to push their search as far west as Military Trail today, according to police department officials.
The Boca Raton Police Dive Unit has lent Delray a remote-controlled submarine, and the use a side scan sonar machine to be used underwater by the divers, the officials said.
Since around 9 a.m., police have been out trolling in boats.
Delray police spokeswoman Nicole Guerriero said they are not searching for another body, but for evidence in the case of the kids found Wednesday.
"We have no reason to believe that there are more bodies in the water," she said.
After Wednesday's horrific discoveries, at 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., detectives are attempting to learn how the children - both of whom are African-American - died, and to track down who dropped them in the water.
The girl had been shoved into a black duffel bag. The boy was folded into a suitcase.
Both had been placed in the long, wide C-15 canal that divides Boca Raton and Delray and stayed there until Wednesday, when a passerby spotted a strange little buoy bobbing near the city's south side.
Police divers went into the water twice, 61⁄2 hours apart, and emerged cradling little bodies, children who had died and were cast off like old shoes, investigators said.
The bags were found about a half-mile apart in the canal near Avocet Road and Carl Bolter Drive. The canal stretches between U.S. 441 and the Intracoastal Waterway and flows under almost every major north-south road in Palm Beach County. The water flows east or west, depending on the tides.
"We're taking this personal," Guerriero said this morning. "We want to know who these kids were; and who could have done this to them."
She said police are still waiting on cause of death from the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office.
DELRAY BEACH — Delray Beach Police believe that they have identified the two black kids whose bodies were found Wednesday stuffed in luggage in the C-15 canal.
At a news conference this afternoon, Delray Beach Police spokeswoman Nicole Guerriero declined to name the kids until authorities can confirm their identities.
Meanwhile, police were putting up crime scene tape around a house in the 100 block of Southwest Seventh Avenue that neighbors believe to be the home where the kids lived. Guerriero said that she did not believe the house was related to the investigation. BALONEY.
REST IN HEAVEN PRECIOUS BABIES! =,,,,,( This is just terrible! I think it has to be the parents since no one has come forward and reported them missing or calling LE when they heard of 2 kids in suitcases floatin down the river! MOTHER FUCKERS!
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