Cadaver dog helped trace Sherin’s body
Houston, Oct. 27: A cadaver dog played a crucial role in finding the body of 3-year-old Indian girl Sherin Mathews in a culvert after she disappeared from her suburban Dallas home, according to a media report.
Sherin, who went missing on October 7, was found dead in a culvert on October 22.
Police in Richardson city had gone door-to-door in the neighborhood and used cadaver dogs, helicopters and drones to look the missing toddler, who was adopted last year by the Indian-American couple, Wesley Mathews and Sini Mathews.
Wesley Mathews was rearrested after he changed his story about Sherin’s disappearance from their home. He had earlier claimed that she went missing after he sent her outside their home at around 3 am as punishment for not drinking her milk.
On Monday, Wesley voluntarily told the police that Sherin choked on milk and died in the family’s garage before he removed her body from the home.
Police are still investigating how Sherin died and how long her body had been in the drainage ditch located nearly 1 km from her home.
Sergeant Kevin Perlich, with the Richardson Police Department, told the NBC 5 TV network that they had previously searched the area near the culvert where Sherin’ body was found but had come up empty-handed.
But the canine search teams working to find Sherin firmly believed that they could able to bring the little girl home.