New Leads in Search for Missing Boy

By Angela Williams, First Coast News

BRUNSWICK, GA -- Glynn County Police Chief Matthew Doering says police searched a shed behind a home on Union street in Brunswick. Chief Doering says at one time the Edenfields rented the home. The family currently living there is not suspect in this case.

Doering says investigators found three shovels inside the shed which are now part of evidence. Several volunteers decided to stay at the vigil site overnight to show their support for the six- year-old's safe return. They gathered by candlelight and together prayed for little Christopher to come home.

"If you see him please call the cops," says Christopher's older brother, just a few years older than him.

Police explore new evidence leading them back to the Edenfields' mobile home. George, David and Peggy Edenfield remain behind bars without bond. Tuesday night's search led detectives to a field about half a mile from the boy's home. Police say David Edenfield and his friend Donald Dale told them they would find Barrios in that location. Nothing came from the tip but evidence did surface back at the mobile home.

"There were some items that we saw and had no idea it was evidence until we got stories or statements from those two. Legally, we had to go back with another search warrant for a third time," says Chief Doering.

Police are also following another lead. Investigators say Sunday they received a tip from a teenage girl who says she thought she saw Christopher at a Dollar General.

"Someone had seen a gentleman, a white male with long hair. The clerk and the girl described him. They say he had a little mixed race boy," says Doering.

An Air National Guard plane is set to circle over certain areas using a ground radar. The radar can detect whether or not soil has been moved in the area. Police also hope to have a composite of the man seen at the Dollar General.

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