Jake and Rebecca Haro, ages 32 and 41, are in San Bernardino County Sheriff's custody on suspicion of killing their 7-month-old son, Emmanuel. The mother initially reported the infant missing Aug. 14 after saying she was knocked unconscious during an attack in a Yucaipa Big 5 parking lot and awoke to find the baby gone. Authorities say that account was fabricated and flagged the disappearance as suspicious after contradictory statements. Search efforts expanded into a Moreno Valley field with cadaver dogs while news helicopters recorded Jake Haro in a jail jumpsuit. The Sheriff's Department said Emmanuel's body was not found despite an exhaustive search. Rebecca Haro maintains the parents' innocence and expressed determination to find her child.
The search for baby Emmanuel Haro expanded to a dusty field in Moreno Valley over the weekend, where San Bernardino County Sheriff's investigators were joined by the boy's father, Jake Haro, donning a jail jumpsuit. Haro, 32, and his wife Rebecca Haro, 41, have been in sheriff's custody since they were arrested Friday on suspicion of killing their 7-month-old son, Emmanuel.
Since then questions have swirled around the baby's whereabouts, even the parents appealed to the public to help them find their son. Investigators deemed the disappearance suspicious early on after saying Rebecca Haro offered contradictory statements about what happened the evening her child disappeared. An attorney who spoke on behalf of the parents said she was simply emotional and declined to take a polygraph.
On Sunday, news helicopters captured sheriff's investigators and Jake Haro in a bright orange jumpsuit in a dry grass-covered shoulder of the westbound 60 freeway near Gilman Springs Road, joined by cadaver dogs. Sheriff's investigators declined to say what led them to the area or why Haro was with them. "During yesterday's search, Jake Haro was present with detectives; however, Emmanuel's body was not found despite an exhaustive effort," the department said in a statement Monday. "The Sheriff's Department would not, and did not, describe Haro's presence at the location as providing assistance."
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