As unsettling new details continue to emerge in the case of a missing 7-month-old boy from San Bernardino County, KTLA has confirmed the baby’s mother has a convicted murderer in the family.
Authorities in both San Bernardino and Riverside counties launched an extensive search on Aug. 14 after Rebecca and Jake Haro said their little boy was kidnapped from a parking lot of a Yucaipa Big 5 Sporting Goods store after a stranger reportedly knocked Rebecca unconscious, leaving her with a black eye.
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An AMBER Alert was never issued because there were no suspect or vehicle descriptions and despite the sheriff’s departments’ deploying helicopters and K-9 teams in the search for Emmanuel, neither the child nor a suspect was located.
In the days following the alleged kidnapping, new revelations emerged, including that the couple was being uncooperative with investigators from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, that video of Rebecca with a black eye on Aug. 3 may exist, that officials removed the couple’s 2-year-old from their custody and that Jake Haro has a previous felony conviction for willful child cruelty…