BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) – The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office held a media conference nearly a year after a baby was found floating dead in the ocean.
Saturday will mark one year since the infant, believed to be between 4 and 7 days old and who detectives named Baby June, was found by an off-duty firefighter along the Boynton Beach inlet.
Deputies said they have checked multiple leads to no avail and believe the baby may have floated from as far south as Pompano Beach.
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Steven Strivelli said, “We’re not currently actively working any leads because we don’t have anything to work on, but this case is always gonna be on our radar and will never go away. It will never close until we conclude it.”
Investigators have also looked into records of around 700 babies born around the same time as Baby June was believed to have been born.
“We’re not getting lucky in this case here at this point, so we’re hoping that we still have a future with information to be given and that we will be able to make this case,” Strivelli said. “There’s a possibility based on the split that this child could have been from one of the islands in the Caribbean. We are looking at all angles, and when we tried to get in touch with the Bahamas and ask for any missing children there, but dealing with areas like that is very difficult for us.”
Detectives said they also did a DNA test on the baby but found no matches in the national database.
“At this point, we have not located any possible family member,” Strivelli said.
Investigators have classified the case as a homicide and are hoping to close the case as soon as possible.
“There’s no injuries. No marks. The cause of death is suffocation, but how the baby suffocated — as far as that’s concerned — is not certain for us,” Strivelli said.
No arrests have been made in the case and very little information is known about what happened to her.
If you have any information on this homicide, call Palm Beach Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $10,000 reward.
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