Police still searching for missing 6-year-old boy in landfill; family members arrested

LOS ANGELES- Police are still searching for missing 6-year-old Duke Flores’s remains in a landfill, as they believe he was killed by his mother and aunt.

According to the Los Angeles Times, police went to the boys home in late April for a welfare check and were told by his mother, 29-year-old Jackee Contreras that she hadn’t seen him for 2 weeks.

Police arrested her, along with her twin sister Jennifer Contreras and charged them with murder. They believe that both women killed the boy and dumped his body into the trash.

Duke’s cousin Jennifer Gutierrez told CBS Los Angeles that the mother said she he was playing outside in the front of the house when she went inside, came out, and he was gone.

Duke has Autism.

Since the end of April detectives have been digging through 1, 500 tons of trash at a landfill.

Just as of Monday they were continuing to look for the boys remains, beginning from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m..

Both women are in custody and haven’t entered a plea. There also isn’t a motive for the boys disappearance.