Child's charred body identified as 8-year-old Ethan Anderson
A child’s body found in a burning house in Southern California is an eight-year-old boy whose mother was killed and whose sister is believed to have been abducted by a family friend, police have revealed.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said in a brief statement that its crime laboratory has identified the body as Ethan Anderson.
Investigators had identified the charred body through DNA extracted from the boy’s bone marrow.
The body was found along with the body of the boy’s mother Christina Anderson, who investigators say was murdered.
Ethan’s 16-year-old sister Hannah Anderson remains missing, and the search for her and her alleged kidnapper is focused on Idaho.
