Tragic update in search for missing autistic boy who vanished while playing outside

The search for a missing autistic boy has ended after the discovery of his body in a river, police said. It's also the same town where three-year-old Elijah Vue went missing back in February - sparking a massive search that concluded when his body was found in September. 'Search efforts located several items belonging to Jacob and they were recovered from the water last night,' the Two Rivers Police Department said Sunday while announcing the search had come to an end. Cops Sunday revealed how Baer's body was found the following day in water five to six feet deep Baer, a second-grader with autism, disappeared from this park just next the river Saturday afternoon after straying away from his father 'Recovery operations continued until late this morning. Cold season began only this Monday Back in September, the same police department called a separate search surrounding Elijah Vue, 3, to a close after more than six months, when a citizen came across the boy's skeletal remains Jesse Vang, 40, and his mother Katrina Baur, 31, are both in custody and facing charges in the boy's death Vang was Baur's boyfriend at the time of the disappearance, and both are in custody over child neglect charges related to the three-year-old's disappearance.