A subtle piece of evidence has led Oregon police to believe a five-year-old autistic boy found dead in the woods may have been murdered, casting doubt on his mother’s story.
Joshua McCoy was reported missing last month after his mother couldn’t find him when she woke up from a nap. But after a three-day search, his naked body was found in the woods less than two miles from her home.
But investigators discovered that his bare feet showed no marks that would have been present if he had walked to the wooded area himself, leading police to suspect something sinister was at play. People reported.
Additionally, the new search warrant affidavit filed this week in Coos County stated that the body — which was found about twenty feet from a local roadway — had “no signs of trauma, no petechiae, and no scratches or cuts consistent with would be with Joshua walking. through the thorn bushes or blackberry bushes’.
The affidavit also highlighted that there were tire marks in the mud near where his body was found, as well as on his mother’s car tires.
Authorities have not yet released the boy’s cause of death.
Joshua was reported missing on November 9 by his mother’s friend who lives in Utah after she called her instead of the police. KEZI 9 reported.
Her reason for calling a friend instead of law enforcement is said to be due to a bad past experience with the department.
A new search warrant is casting doubt on the circumstances surrounding the death of five-year-old Joshua McCoy, who was found naked in the woods less than two miles from his mother’s home in Oregon last month.
Lawson Amos McCoy, Joshua’s father, who had not seen his son for a year after returning to Ohio, has demanded answers after his son’s remains were discovered
Angela German, Joshua’s mother, told police more than three weeks ago that she woke up after a four-hour nap to find her nonverbal son missing from their Hauser home.
The report prompted a three-day search and rescue effort as local and federal authorities tried to locate him.
Authorities then announced on November 12 that his remains were located in the Coos County coastal forest.
The new affidavit outlined the fact that German’s story changed several times about how long she had been asleep. She eventually told authorities she was taking barbiturates and ketamine to help her sleep.
Lawson Amos McCoy, Joshua’s father, demanded answers after speaking to Oregon Live last month, shortly after his son’s body was found.
“I want the truth, plain and simple,” he said. ‘The rest doesn’t interest me. My baby is gone.”
The 47-year-old father met German when they both lived in Utah before deciding to buy a house together and have a baby.
The pair moved to Coos Bay into a house on a remote stretch of road next to a large pond after German got a job at a local hospital as a nurse. Oregon Live reported.
Joshua, who was autistic and nonverbal, was reported missing by his mother’s boyfriend in Utah after his mother woke up from a nap and couldn’t find him — and after a three-day search, he was found on the Coos County coast . forest
A new search warrant found that there were no scratches or bruises on his bare feet that would have been present if he had walked into the wooded area himself
While she worked at the hospital, McCoy — who received disability benefits from his service in the U.S. Air Force — cared for their son as a stay-at-home dad.
“I took care of him, bathed him and fed him,” he told the newspaper. “I mean, I knew his favorite food. I knew his favorite colors. I can’t believe this happened.’
But McCoy hasn’t seen his son since he left Oregon – and is convinced that if he hadn’t left, his son would still be alive.
“He thinks it’s all his fault just because he left JJ,” Joshua McCoy, McCoy’s brother, told the newspaper.
McCoy’s brother also set up a GoFundMe last month to help Joshua’s father pay for funeral costs – which he wanted back in Ohio to be buried next to his great-grandfather and great-grandmother – as well as therapy for the family members.
Now, some of that money will also go toward hiring a private investigator to investigate the young boy’s death.
The new warrant was intended to search German’s home and seize her Porsche for forensic examination, as well as search McCoy’s cell phone that was found near Joshua’s body when he was discovered, KEZI 9 reported.
McCoy noted that he has not had any contact with Germany since the horrific outcome — and is still leaving Oregon.
Joshua’s father, who lived in Oregon and cared for his son as a stay-at-home dad before returning to Ohio, believes Joshua would still be alive today if he never left home.
No one is in custody at this time and no charges are being filed at this time, nor have any suspects been named in the case
Coos County Sheriff Gabe Fabrizio said detectives are investigating his death as a homicide but remain open to any evidence that refutes it. KVAL 13 reported.
The state’s Department of Human Services is also investigating how Joshua was treated by his mother at home.
Court records showed that the department recently issued a “collection order” after an initial several-month investigation into Germany’s alleged alcohol use, neglect and abuse of her son, KEZI 9 reported.
No one is currently in custody and facing charges.
No suspects have been named in the case.