Georgia Boy Found Murdered
Posted:21 November, 2009 by
The body of six year old Christopher Barrios, Jr. was found Thursday about three miles from his father’s Brunswick, Georgia home. Christopher Barrios, Jr., had been missing for one week, having disappeared on the evening of March 8th. The last time Christopher had been seen, he had been playing alone on a swing set in front of the home of a friend. All anyone found of Christopher Michael Barrios that night was a toy Star Wars light-saber that belonged to him, lying beside the road.
More than three hundred volunteers searched for Christopher Barrios, many of them relatives and law enforcement, but civilian volunteers and trainees from a federal law enforcement training center also searched for the boy. Many wore shirts that bore a photo of Christopher Barrios, along with the date he went missing and a hotline number. When news spread among the volunteers that Christopher Barrios had been found dead, many volunteers hugged and wept. They had been searching a wooded area near a canal not far from the boy’s home after law enforcement had received information that the boy was in the area. However, his body was later found miles outside this initial search area. The body of this innocent child had been placed in a black trash bag, and discarded about fifteen feet from the side of a road behind the Glenn County Airport. Tire tracks in the dirt led searchers to look in the vicinity. Jesse Cook, a game warden for the Department of Natural Resources, along with a co-worker then found the trash bag containing little Christopher Barrios in plain sight.
Four people have already been arrested. One is a thirty-two year old, developmentally delayed man who lived with his parents in a mobile home across the street from the home of Christopher Barrios’s Grandmother. This man, George David Edenfield, is a convicted sex offender. The police arrested him and charged him with violating his parole. The stipulations of his parole from a 1997 sex offense conviction, required that he stay away from children. The man admitted to being involved in the disappearance of Christopher Barrios.
The parents of George Edenfield were also arrested, for obstruction and lying to police. The father gave conflicting stories about what had happened to Christopher Barrios. The mother first claimed that she knew nothing about the disappearance, but later admitted that she knew Christopher Barrios had been abducted. A fourth individual, Donald Dale, was also arrested on charges of obstruction and lying to police, as he, along with the other three individuals, gave conflicting stories about the whereabouts and fate of Christopher Barrios, at one point telling the police that he had helped bury the little boy.
A candle-light vigil was held for Christopher Barrios, during which, his grieving ten year old brother Brevin, was photographed being held as he cried.
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