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(NewsNation) — A seven-month-old babe has been missing for six days and residents who unrecorded successful the country wherever helium vanished accidental his disappearance was "very suspicious from the get-go."
San Bernardino County deputies person been searching for Emmanuel Haro since Aug. 14. His mother, Rebecca Haro, told constabulary that she was changing his diaper successful the parking batch of a Big 5 Sporting Goods Store erstwhile a alien knocked her retired and kidnapped the boy.
Police accidental Rebecca stopped cooperating with the probe erstwhile they started to question her communicative astir her son's disappearance. Residents successful Yucaipa accidental they aren't definite what to deliberation astir the case.
"The archetypal absorption was shock, due to the fact that that doesn't hap retired here. In Yucaipa, it's precise harmless and we're very, if we spot something, radical volition measurement in," Heather Walker told "Elizabeth Vargas Reports."
"Once we saw that firsthand, her interview, everyone was precise suspicious from the get-go, and it wasn't adding up."
Rebecca Haro's 'strange' behavior
Walker is among locals who person helped hunt for the small boy.
"I personally saw the mother, Rebecca, the time they were hosting a hunt party," she said. "I conscionable thought it was precise unusual that she was walking to her car conscionable good ... and past the quality conveyance started coming in, and past she limped away.
"At that point, I benignant of had a precise atrocious feeling that we weren't searching for a kid successful the area."
Police said Rebecca Haro was inconsistent successful her recollections of what happened earlier Emmanuel's disappearance.
Walker said she spoke with radical who worked astatine stores adjacent wherever Emmanuel vanished and nary of them reported seeing Rebecca with a baby.
"It conscionable doesn't hap wherever idiosyncratic walks up down you retired here, knocks you out, and takes a babe and nary witnesses," Walker said. "And it's a precise engaged street."
Police searched Rebecca's location but haven't announced if they recovered thing incriminating. They seized a conveyance belonging to Emmanuel's father, Jake Haro, connected Tuesday, NewsNation affiliate KTLA reported.
Haro and his ex-wife pleaded blameworthy to willful kid cruelty aft their then-10-week-old girl was admitted to a infirmary with breached bones successful 2018, according to The Orange County Register.
Walker said neither Rebecca nor Jake Haro showed up for a vigil for Emmanuel. She felt it was unusual and is upset that the parents person made it look similar the metropolis of Yucaipa is unsafe.
Investigators not buying mother's story
Walker's intuitions astir Rebecca Haro's inconsistent communicative person besides been supported by Lauren Matthias, an investigative journalist, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, a erstwhile FBI agent.
"I deliberation that determination were eyes connected this household for rather immoderate time," said Matthias.
Coffindaffer adds, "When you look astatine idiosyncratic who has that benignant of a history, that tends to travel patterns."
Police person not arrested oregon charged the parents with immoderate crime.
