Body of missing Florida baby Chance Walsh found, Sheriff says

Police from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office appealed for help in finding the boy, though a later search of the couple’s home revealed blood spatter and evidence of a body.

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday afternoon it has recovered the body of an infant believed to be Chance Walsh, who has been missing since early September.

“We received information recently directing us to this property here in North Port, about the possibility of a child being buried here”, he said.

Officials say on Wednesday, detectives arrived to an area near Wylam Drive and English Circle and have been on scene ever since. Chance’s parents were arrested last week on charges of child neglect in South Carolina and are now waiting extradition back to Florida. She and the boy’s paternal grandmother made a number of unsuccessful attempts to check on Chance’s welfare because his parents, Bury, 32, and Walsh, 36, are longtime drug users, according to the sheriff’s office.

The area blocked off is about 13 miles from Chance’s home.

Medical examiners are working to confirm the identity of the infant, but police said they are confident the body belongs to Chance.

Investigators said the parents had given conflicting stories to family members as to what happened to their son, including that he died in a vehicle crash and that they had given him to a stranger in a hotel in Georgia.

They are each being held in South Carolina on $150,000 bond.

“I loved that baby”.

She added that Bury further said she “despised Chance whenever she would look at him because he wasn’t Duane”. She told her stepmother “it was better” that Chance was gone, because she would have hurt him.

Authorities are still trying to figure out the mystery behind Chance’s disappearance and possible death.