Police employed a specialist firm to search the sewer community between the boy’s dwelling and the place he was found for clues to how he bought misplaced.
Joe was final seen round 6 p.m. native time on the day of his disappearance on a property close to a drain pipe with a diameter of 100 centimeters (39.3 inches).
“Investigators therefore consider it highly probable that Joe climbed into this concrete pipe while playing,” the assertion stated. “It can now be assumed that Joe has increasingly lost his bearings in the system and could no longer find an exit.”
After apparently climbing alongside the pipe for 23 meters (75 ft), police stated he adopted the sewer system via a plastic pipe with a diameter of simply 60 centimeters (23.6 inches). Some of his garments have been found in this pipe.
The boy was capable of transfer via sewer shafts and junctions to succeed in the realm beneath the manhole cowl the place he was found.
At one level, officers launched a murder investigation after receiving a tip that the boy had been seen in the corporate of an unknown particular person, which later proved false.
As for Joe, he stays in the hospital and is receiving remedy however hasn’t but been capable of inform the police his full story in element.
Andy Eckardt contributed.