“Residents and hunters pass there every day”: The place where Emil’s bones were found is visited

“This is a place that hunters with dogs and residents pass by every day; they go there to pick mushrooms. [Fica a cerca de um quilómetro de onde a criança de dois anos e meio foi vista pela última vez, quando brincava nos jardins da casa dos avós, onde passava férias]. Forestry work was carried out there in the fall,” explained the municipal official. “Why did we find this body over the Easter weekend? There are many questions,” he adds.

Doubts and questions that authorities are now trying to answer and rely on on the ground, with the precious help of dogs trained to detect human remains, especially in areas with dense vegetation.

“They are different from those used in the first searches,” assures Pierre-Yves Bardy, commander of the field operations to which the investigators who solved the case of Maelisa de Araujo, a 9-year-old child of Portuguese origin, were called. who disappeared from a wedding in August 2017 and was found dead the following February. About a hundred experts from different fields are trying to figure out what happened on July 8, 2023. Did the child accidentally die in this place or did someone or an animal bring the bones there?