The worried mother of a missing baby boy doesn’t think the Garfield Park dismembered toddler’s sketch below is that of her two-year-old son.
Chicago authorities are investigating a possible link between Kyrian Knox’s disappearance in mid-August to the grisly discovery of a mutilated child’s head, hands and feet in one of the park’s lagoons at about the same time.
DNA testing is underway because the two toddlers are also the same age, weight, height and race, investigators stated yesterday. However, “that baby and my baby look nothing alike,” Lanisha Knox insisted at a news conference.
Knox, from Rockford, had left her son Kyrian in the care of “a best friend” while she embarked on a new job and the business of relocating closer to it.
It’s not clear how the boy subsequently vanished, but she said her sitter had consistently assured her over the phone that he was okay. So Lanisha Knox is, in effect, one of the last to learn her child had gone missing.
“Emotionally for me this has been hell because my son has never been away from me,” she said, adding that “at this point, I don't trust anyone and I do feel like somebody knows something and they're not saying.”
Ms. Knox and her family are offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to Kyrian Knox’s immediate return. Tips may be directed to the police at (815) 987-5824 or Crime Stoppers at (815) 963-7867.
