Shaniya Davis Story

Unless you just don't watch the news, I'm sure you've heard of the Shaniya Davis story. The beautiful little 5 year old girl who was found dead in a trash bin.

The story gets more heart felt as the days go by and more details come out.

A dog trainer who helped look for the missing North Carolina 5-year-old says searchers overlooked her body at first because all they saw were deer carcasses in trash bags.

But Jeff Riccio of Tarheel Cainine Training Inc. said his team returned after getting information that the body of Shaniya Davis might be near the carcasses. The searchers found the body Monday afternoon underneath kudzu plants along a rural highway southeast of Sanford, N.C., about 40 miles south west of Raleigh.

Riccio says it was terrible seeing Shaniya's body, but he's glad her ordeal is over. A massive search for Shaniya began Tuesday Nov. 3 when her mother, Antoinette Davis, reported her missing from their Fayetteville, N.C., home.

Antoinette Davis has been charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse, accused of selling her daughter into sexual slavery. Police also charged Mario McNeill with kidnapping after he was captured on a hotel's surveillance video with Shaniya.

No one has been charged with the girl's murder as yet.

Warrant sought to search Fla. toddler's home

Authorities say they are seeking a search warrant for the Orlando home of a missing 3-year-old girl after a small child's remains were found nearby.



Orange County sheriff's spokesman Carlos Padilla said Thursday that investigators cordoned off the home belonging to the grandparents of Caylee Anthony, who often stayed at the home with her mother.

Caylee's mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, insists that she left the girl with a baby sitter in June, but she didn't report her missing until July. The mother has been charged with first-degree murder.

On Thursday, a utility worker stumbled upon remains of a small child less than a half-mile from where the girl lived. Investigators were trying to identify the remains. The medical examiner left with the remains about 3 p.m.

Child's body found near missing girl's home in Florida

WFTV-TV says a girl's body was found this morning near the home of Caylee Anthony, the 3-year-old who disappeared last summer in Orange County, Fla. The girl's mother, Casey Anthony, was charged with murder after detectives found inconsistencies in her story about Caylee's disappearance.

"Sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons said a utility worker found the child's remains at 9:32 a.m. and called the sheriff's office," according to the Orlando Sentinel. "The location is less than one-quarter mile from Casey Anthony's home on Hopespring Drive."

Caylee has been missing since June or July.

Update at 11:37 a.m. ET: WKMG-TV says the age and gender of the dead child have yet to be determined.

"Deputies did respond to that area, and once we were on the scene, we determined that we do have the remains of a young child," Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons tells WKMG-TV. "Obviously, our concern is that it's in close proximity to some recent activity in that part of the county, and it's incumbent upon us to determine what we have."


The Orange County Sheriff's Office just posted this update on its website:

At approximately 9:30 AM today the Orange County Sheriff's Office received a telephone call from a man, reported to be a utility worker, who advised he had found what he believed to be the remains of a young child in a wooded area near the intersection of the South Chickasaw Trail and Suburban Drive. Deputies responded to the area and confirmed the report the Sheriff's Office has recieved [sic] from the caller. The responding deputies secured the scene and made the appropriate notifications. In response to many questions we have recieved on this discovery, the scene is approximately one half mile from the residence of Caylee Anthony. Beyond proximity to Caylee's home we have nothing at time that would link this discovery to the missing child.

The Sheriff's has confirmed that the remains do appear to be those of a young child however the sex, age, or identity of the youngster have not been determined. Investigators have not identified the victim at this point in their investigation nor have they specualted [sic] on the cause and manner of death in this case.