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A Texas medical examiner confirmed Monday that the body of a small child found in a garbage bag in Arkansas was that of Maleah Davis, age 4, missing.
The remains of Maleah were found Friday along the I-30 highway at Hope by workers and transported to Houston for identification.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Science was still determining the cause and mode of death, FOX26 Houston reported.
REMAINS FOUND IN ARKANSAS MAY BE THAT OF MALEAH DAVIS MISSING, SAYS POLICE
Derion Vence, 27, who told police that Maleah had been kidnapped by criminals who released him and his son, reportedly filed a complaint on May 4.
Derion Vence, the man who reported that 4 year old Maleah Davis, had been abducted on May 4th, was arrested a week later on charges of falsifying a human corpse.
(Houston Police Department)
He was imprisoned on May 11 for altering a corpse after dead dogs detected an odor in the trunk of his vehicle.
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Maleah's body was found after a community activist told reporters that Vence had confessed to throwing his body into Arkansas. Vence is also reported to have said that death was an accident.
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