By Chuck Hustmyre

March 16, 2007

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Crime Library) — Police Chief Matt Doering announced late Thursday that searchers had found the body of 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr.

"Christopher is not with us anymore," Chief Doering said.

 

A state wildlife officer on an ATV found the boy's covered body in a field near the Glynco Airport, about two miles from Christopher's home in the Canal Mobile Home Park.

Christopher disappeared on March 8, one week to the day before his body was found. He was last seen walking home after playing on a swing set about a block from the mobile home he lived in with his father, Christopher Barrios Sr.

The day after Christopher went missing, police arrested George Edenfield, a 32-year-old convicted child molester and registered sex offender, for violating the terms of his probation. Edenfield, who allegedly suffers from mental problems, lived across the street from Christopher in the mobile home park.

According to police, Edenfield was arrested because he admitted violating his probation by having unsupervised contact with Christopher.

Christopher's grandmother, Sue Rodriguez, who also lives in the trailer park, said she found Edenfield's name on a list of registered sex offenders and warned her grandson to be careful of him, as well as the rest of the Edenfield family.

"I told him, 'Christopher, they're not nice people," Rodriquez said during a television interview. "'Stay away from them.'"

During the last seven days, as hundreds of volunteers, law enforcement officers, and National Guard troops combed the woods, fields, and canals within a five-mile radius of the mobile home park, investigators sharpened their focus on Edenfield and his family.

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Contact Chuck Hustmyre at chuck3174@yahoo.com

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