After a three month search across East Toledo and along the Maumee River in Ohio, police believe that they may have found the remains of Baby Elaina, an 18-month-old who was reported missing on June 2.
On Thursday, officials discovered human remains in the home where the missing toddler was last seen alive with her mother. Toledo Police Chief Derrick Diggs said an autopsy is being conducted to determine whether the remains belong to the toddler.
"We have found what we believe may be baby Elaina," Diggs said, at a press conference Friday morning, according to HLN-TV.
Police say they found a computer box containing "immature human remains" in the rafters of an attached garage next to other boxes in the home where the baby had been staying with her mother, Angela Steinfurth, and the mother's boyfriend, Steven King.
Elaina was reported missing by her father and Angela Steinfurth's estranged husband, Terry Steinfurth Jr. when went to King's house on June 2 to pick her up.
On Friday, Steinfurth Jr. told PEOPLE he's frustrated that the remains didn't turn up during previous searches of the house.
"I'm upset with the whole situation and really don't know how to feel right now," Steinfurth tells PEOPLE.
Diggs insisted that police "didn't drop the ball," by not finding the remains sooner and that the investigation was stymied by false leads.
"We had a lot of deception taking place being told to us by a variety of sources in the community," Diggs said.
Angela Steinfurth's stepfather, Richard Schiewe, told the Toledo Blade the computer box was not in the rafters during initial searches of the house. "Somebody went and got that body and put that body up there," he said.
The discovery was made after King spent several hours talking with detectives; however, police wouldn't say whether King told them where to find the remains.
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