Updating TIMELINE with new info in
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around Feb 2021
Q born (14)
around Jul 2021
Grandmother BH awarded custody of Q and Q's older brother (14)
sometime in 2022
Q's younger sister born (14)
Fri Sep 16
Sheriff's office mailed Mother LS and Mother's Boyfriend DY eviction notice from Grandmother BH (14)
around Mon Sep 26 - Sat Oct 1
believed that Mother LS and Mother's Boyfriend DY received eviction notice from Grandmother BH (14)
sometime in Sep 2022
Grandmother BH leaves for 3-week work assignment in IL; hopes to get back before evicted daughter LS and daughter's boyfriend DY move out (14)
Tue Oct 4
Babysitter DM watched Q & Z (9)
Wedn Oct 5
5:29AM - Babysitter DM received text that she would not be babysitting Q & Z that morning (9)
6:00AM -
LAST REPORTED SIGHTING (1)
by mother's boyfriend (14); According to grandfather TH (who owns the house but was out of town; wife is still driving in from out of state), people at home at the time: mother, mother's boyfriend, 3 kids, mother's brother (7)
9:00AM [
or 9:30AM? (14)] - Reported missing by mother (1) who said he was in his playpen (5); Babysitter DM receives text asking if she's seen them, but when she tried to help search, she was turned away (9)
9:42AM - LE dispatched to residence (1), searched home (4)
12:34PM - LE state they are searching area on foot with a drone and K9 unit (1)
2:04PM - LE state they are shutting down Chatham Parkway, Louis B Mills, and Buckhalter Rd to continue search (1)
2:48PM - LE state that Buckhalter Rd was reopened (1)
3:33PM - LE state that Chief met with media - nothing to indicate abduction; "does not appear to be a custody dispute, and all parties are cooperating"; have responded to two calls for service at the home in the last two years (neither for missing child) (2)
5:58PM - @BrettWSAV states FBI assisting (6)
6:52PM - LE state ground search continues; plan to search with helicopter and heat-seeking tech (2)
[TIME?] - Dive team also on scene (7)
10:08PM - LE state 75 LE officers and volunteers combed area (2)
[TIME?] - LE secured search warrant for residence (10)
PM - FBI Evidence Response Team & Chatham County Police search home with flashlights & cameras (8)
PM - LE cruiser remained on scene at residence overnight (14)
[TIME?] - Grandmother BH learned about Q's disappearance from phone call from Babysitter DM (14)
PM - Grandmother BH arrived home but with crime scene tape up, had to stay in a motel (14)
[TIME?] - LE contacted bio father and "did not believe he was involved" (4) due to the fact he "works very much, very north of here" (10), despite Q's mom telling Q's grandfather that Q's father came and picked him up (7)
[TIME?] - neighbors state they'd seen Q out wandering the home and street in the past (7)
Thur Oct 6
5:53AM - LE states no overnight developments (3)
10:11AM - FBI on scene with ATVs (11), searching trash cans in neighborhood including babysitter's (12)
and locked sheds on grandfather's other property (15)
11:11AM - LE is "obtaining other search warrants at other locations today" (13)
AM - Grandmother BH, who was working out of town in IL, states in phone interview with media "I couldn’t imagine that she would hurt one of her kids but I can’t say the thought hasn’t gone through my mind a hundred thousand times" (14)
SOURCES
(1)
ChathamCountyPD FB post (Oct 5)
(2)
ChathamCountyPD FB post (Oct 5)
(3)
ChathamCountyPD FB post (Oct 5)
(4)
Police searching for missing toddler in Georgia neighborhood (APNews - Oct 5)
(5)
Search for toddler missing from coastal Georgia neighborhood continues (Fox5 - Oct 5)
(6)
@BrettWSAV tweet (Oct 5)
(7)
Chatham County police, neighbors search for missing 20-month-old child (WSAV - Oct 5)
(8)
@BrettWSAV tweet (Oct 5)
(9)
WSAV3 video (Oct 5)
(10)
WSAV FB video (Oct 5)
(11)
@BrettWSAV tweet (Oct 6)
(12)
@BrettWSAV tweet (Oct 6)
(13)
@BrettWSAV tweet (Oct 6)
(14)
Search continues for Chatham Co. toddler last seen Wednesday morning (WTOC - Oct 6)
(15)
@BrettWSAV tweet (Oct 6)