(CNN) For nearly two weeks, police in Las Vegas released images and offered rewards for information that would identify a child who had been found dead on a desert trail. But the effort to name the boy -- now known to be 7-year-old Liam Husted -- took a police sketch, DNA testing and a concerned father to make it happen. Mother and son missingHusted had been with his mother, Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, according to his father. Authorities have identified a child found near a Las Vegas trail as 7-year-old Liam Husted, from San Jose, California. That pillow provided the DNA that allowed the Las Vegas police forensics lab to positively identify the body found on the trail as the 7-year-old from San Jose, according to Spencer.

Source: CNN June 09, 2021 06:11 UTC