Body of 5-year-old Minnesota girl found after Amber Alert

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Last Updated : Aug 21 2016 | 10:22 AM IST
Authorities said they found the body of a 5-year-old Minnesota girl just hours after they had issued an Amber Alert saying she had been abducted by a family friend.
The body of Alayna Jeanne Ertl was found yesterday in Cass County, about 200 miles north of Minneapolis. The suspect in her disappearance, family friend Zachary Anderson, 26, has been arrested and a vehicle found, police said.
Ertl's body was found shortly after 5.00 PM (local time) in the rural town of Motley, Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze told the Star Tribune. She was dead when police arrived on the scene, he said.
"That's part of our follow up right now, to figure out- why there?" Cruze said.
Police said Anderson was staying overnight at the girl's home in Watkins, about 75 miles west of Minneapolis. The girl's mother discovered them gone at 8.00 AM (local time).
No other details were immediately available.

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First Published: Aug 21 2016 | 10:22 AM IST

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