Police: Authorities find body of boy believed to Bryeon Hunter murdered by his parents and tossed into the river

Police have recovered the body of a small child from the Des Plaines River near the Brookfield Zoo, and authorities believe it may be the body of 1-year-old boy who was allegedly murdered by his mother and her boyfriend last month in Maywood.

“They pulled a small body of a child that fits the size and description of Bryeon Hunter,”  Maywood Police Chief Tim Curry said.

Curry said that the remains were significantly decomposed and were being transported to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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