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BY KERRY LEARY ANCHOR JASMINE BAILEY
The body of a missing 12-year-old New Jersey girl is believed to be found. She went missing
on Saturday. Here’s WCBS.
“Investigators have preliminarily identified a body found
in a recycling container found in Clayton last night as Autumn Pasquale. she was last
seen riding her bike in Clayton on Saturday.:
Autumn Pasquale was last seen Saturday morning on
her bike heading to the park. She was reported missing Sunday night after she missed her
curfew. Hundreds of police, the FBI and volunteers conducted intense ground searches for her.
The New York Daily News reports:
“The last known communication was in a text message
she sent around 2:30 p.m. [Police] would not say who received the message or what it contained.
But he said that there was nothing alarming or unusual about it.”
Police said investigators
accounted for all the registered sex offenders in the area and interviewed them. News 12
New Jersey notes, media is still waiting on verbal communication that the body found is
Pasquale. However:
“The prosecutor, Sean Dalton, did issue a statement saying,
quote, ‘This is a very sad day for the Pasquale family.’"
An autopsy was performed
Tuesday morning. No arrests have been made yet and there is no word of any suspects in
the case. Autumn’s thirteenth birthday would have been next week.