Mother still searching for answers months after son's disappearance in Kerman

KERMAN, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the twelvemonth comes to a close, the hopeless hunt continues for a parent hoping to find her son.

"Christmas Day, I said, 'What if this was conscionable a dream?' And I locomotion downstairs, and he's sitting connected a couch," said Tameka Harris, Daniely's mother.

But it wasn't a dream.

That nightmare is inactive a world for Harris months into the hunt for her missing lad retired of Fresno County.

Corey Daniely was past seen connected his birthday, August 7, arsenic helium near a location successful Kerman.

Since then, vigor silence.

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office elevated Daniely's lawsuit to a missing idiosyncratic with suspicious circumstances successful September.

But the probe is inactive ongoing.

Daniely is 33 years old, a father, a musician, and a son.

"There's not a time that has gone by these past astir 5 months that I don't aftermath up and conscionable privation this was a dream," said Harris.

Daniely's parent says she's feeling 2 emotions: wounded and anger.

She endured the holidays without her babe boy, besides known arsenic 'Crumb Dread,' for the archetypal time.

"I wasn't capable to perceive his dependable for Christmas. I wasn't capable to perceive his dependable for Thanksgiving," said Harris.

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office says aft interviews and a hunt warrant, each leads person dried up successful the case, and present is the clip for anyone to travel guardant with caller information.

"Maybe idiosyncratic who was determination that nighttime feels that they were dishonest, possibly idiosyncratic didn't talk up erstwhile they should have, these are each things that we request radical to benignant of person your morals instrumentality over," said Tony Botti with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.

Botti added they privation to get justness for Daniely and his mother.

"We conscionable request much answers, and we truly anticipation deputies are going to proceed to enactment this, and we truly anticipation that we tin present her a connection 1 day, whether it beryllium bully quality oregon atrocious news, but conscionable truthful she tin remainder oregon enactment her caput astatine ease," said Botti.

While Harris knows leads are slim for instrumentality enforcement, she's inactive wishing for a miracle.

"There are respective times that I person texted him oregon called him connected Instagram, conscionable saying, 'Hey, I miss you!' And conscionable a glimmer of anticipation of 'Hey, possibly helium could prime up,'" said Harris.

When she's feeling heavy, she turns connected tunes similar this 1 from Daniely's Facebook page.

"Getting acceptable for my commute to work, I volition enactment connected 1 of his songs, and it benignant of gets maine pumped. It gives maine that drive. Then I person a speech with him like, 'Son, I'm not giving up connected you. This is different day,'" said Harris.

If you cognize thing astir this lawsuit oregon wherever Daniely whitethorn be, you're asked to telephone the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.

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