Three-year-old Brendan Link Creato was allegedly staying at his father’s apartment in Haddon Township NJ when he “wandered off” dressed only in pajamas and slippers.
The toddler was found dead shortly after, less than a mile from where he had vanished.
A K9 is credited with finding the boy’s body in a nearby woodland, approximately three hours after relatives filed a missing persons report.
The toddler’s cause of death has not been confirmed yet, pending the results of a full autopsy, but the park area he died in borders on a river tributary, indicating a possible drowning.
Police announced Tuesday that the circumstances of young Brendan Creato’s disappearance -- and his unusually long journey on foot -- is the subject of an “ongoing and active investigation.”
