April 16, 2021 GMT
BOISE, Idaho (AP) An Idaho sheriff has said that investigators found what is believed to be the body of an 8-year-old girl who went missing earlier this week and that a suspect has been arrested. The girl’s two older siblings also reported missing and last seen months earlier were found safe.
The Gem County Sheriff’s Office initially announced Tuesday that authorities were searching for 17-year-old Tristan Conner Sexton, 14-year-old Taylor Summers and 8-year-old Taryn Summers and later said all three children were believed to have run away from the same home at separate times.
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At the time, Tristan was last seen Sept. 10, and Taylor was last seen Oct. 19. Taryn was last seen on Monday, according to a Facebook post by the sheriff’s office.
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An 8-year-old girl, the third child to go missing from an Idaho home, is believed to have been found murdered last week and a suspect has been arrested.
Tristan Sexton, 17, was the first to vanish from his home in rural Emmett, Idaho in September 2020. Taylor Summers, 14, vanished a month later, and 8-year-old Taryn Summers disappeared Apr. 12, the Associated Press reports. The teens were both reported as runaways, and authorities initially thought Taryn Summers might have joined them them when she went missing, according to a press release by the Gem County Sheriff’s Office.
Idaho sheriff: Missing girl s body found, suspect arrested
April 16, 2021
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) An Idaho sheriff has said that investigators found what is believed to be the body of an 8-year-old girl who went missing earlier this week and that a suspect has been arrested. The girl s two older siblings also reported missing and last seen months earlier were found safe.
The Gem County Sheriff s Office initially announced Tuesday that authorities were searching for 17-year-old Tristan Conner Sexton, 14-year-old Taylor Summers and 8-year-old Taryn Summers and later said all three children were believed to have run away from the same home at separate times.