BREAKING NEWS
Sources close to the investigation into the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster have told InstantNewsKaty a person had been taken into custody in connection with the case.
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According to police sources, a woman was is a “family acquaintance” but not a relative has been taken into custody and will be charged with kidnapping.
Investigators plan to add a murder charge as soon as the burned body found dumped in a ditch near the Hardy Toll Road yesterday morning is positively identified as that of the Durham Elementary fifth-grader.
“We certain the body is that of Jonathan Foster, but we still need confirmation,” the source said.
That confirmation is expected as early as this afternoon from the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.
Asked if Foster’s mother and stepfather, who became a focus of the investigation yesterday, had been cleared of involvement, the several sources said they had not.
“This is still an active investigation; no final determination has been made on that,” one police source said.
The source also said the woman in custody was not cooperating with investigators, but her vehicle was identified in surveillance video from the Rolled Alloys facility across the street from where the burned body was dumped.
The suspect’s residence was searched yesterday. Police said “substantial evidence” had been collected linking the woman to Foster’s disappearance.
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