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In late summer 2013, five-month-old Joshua Justin Summeries vanished from an apartment in Zion, Illinois. He was last seen on August 19, 2013. Initial statements to police were inconsistent: Joshua’s mother, Kisha Summeries, first reported a man had snatched the infant through an apartment window, then later said her boyfriend, Demetries Thorpe, had gone to quiet the baby and Joshua was not seen after that.

Investigators focused on Thorpe. Thorpe reportedly confessed to suffocating Joshua with his hand to stop the baby from crying, placing the body in a backpack and disposing of it in a garbage can behind the building. Surveillance footage is said to have shown him moving the backpack into a larger dumpster just before pickup, prompting an intensive search at a 330-acre landfill on Green Bay Road. Despite four days of searching, Joshua’s body was not recovered.

Does anyone have information about Joshua’s last day, the apartment complex, or the landfill search that could help fill gaps in the timeline?