Harry’s body was discovered Wednesday afternoon, more than a day after he disappeared from his home on Freda Lane in the Pawtucketville section of the city on Tuesday. Found by a State Police diving team in a pond not far from home in Lowell. The lake was searched Tuesday and Harry was not found. A day later, police reopened the areas because it is believed the boy was on the move. Harry was wearing the clothes he was last seen in and was found in about five feet of water. There were no signs of injury on his body. “This is obviously every parent’s worst nightmare,” Middlesex prosecutor Marian Ryan said Wednesday. Investigators said Harry was left at home Tuesday morning. A neighbor saw him playing in the yard around 9:15 a.m. About 15 minutes later, the babysitter called 911 to report that Harry had disappeared. “We have a very narrow window on when he disappeared,” Carlisle Police Chief John Fisher, the incident commander for the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Law Enforcement Task Force, told reporters. Fisher said this was Harry’s fifth visit with the babysitter and that he appeared to have walked out the door alone. The babysitter was also watching another child at the time, Fisher said. Two different police dogs picked up the smell of Harry, both heading in the same direction towards the forest behind the house. Harry was last seen wearing a long-sleeved shirt and gray trousers with a white stripe on them. Police did not suspect a bad game and treated it as a search for a missing child. Fisher said they began searching the home and extending it in all directions Wednesday to a nearby state forest and Tyngsboro. About 200 people attended, and Fisher added that the FBI’s kidnapping rapid development team also offered to help. About 180 police officers from various police stations searched the area all day Tuesday. People living in the neighborhood were asked to check their video surveillance, bell cameras, property and cars.
“We do not have him on video,” Fisher said Wednesday, noting that the boy’s size may not have turned on the door camera. “We have the material, we do not have it on it.” Ryan said her department would now shift its focus from finding Harry to finding out what happened. CBSBoston.com staff The CBS Boston team is a team of experienced journalists who bring your content to CBSBoston.com.