(NewsNation) — As the search for Emmanuel Haro continues, a former district attorney believes that police have a strong suspicion of where the child’s body is buried.
Kim DeGonia, who held her position in Riverside County, California, told “Banfield” on Wednesday that District Attorney Michael Hestrin made it clear the crime scene that officers had Haro search with them over the weekend wasn’t the right one.
Haro was assisting search-and-rescue teams near the 60 Freeway and Gilman Springs Road in Moreno Valley.
“There’s a strong indication they know where the body is,” DeGonia said about Hestrin’s comments.
DeGonia noted that authorities haven’t been searching landfills, even though Haro allegedly told an informant he put Emmanuel’s body in the trash.
Jake Haro made double admission
Jake Haro told police he accidentally rolled over on the infant, killing him, sources told NewsNation’s Brian Entin. But Haro had a second story.
He also told a jail informant that he killed Emmanuel and placed him in the trash. That “confession” was part of a Perkins operation.
“The incriminating statements that Jake made could have been anywhere along the process of this operation; the beginning, while in the cell with the inmates, or could have even been made possibly after to the investigators,” DeGonia said of the Perkins operation.
Rebecca Haro, Emmanuel’s mother, was also part of a Perkins operation, but she stuck to her same story that Emmanuel was kidnapped Aug. 14 after she was knocked unconscious while changing his diaper in a parking lot.
Jake and Rebecca Haro were arrested last week on suspicion of murder. Police say the couple are cooperating, on some level, with the investigation and their arraignment is set for next week.