Johnny Doe Toddler (possibly Hispanic) in DuPage County, Illinois - Help Requested to Identify

Law enforcement has nick-named him “Dupage Johnny Doe” – and on Monday, October 15th at 2:00 PM at Assumption Cemetary in Wheaton he will buried, surrounded by people he never knew in his short life, but who have opened their hearts and their emotions to this toddler, abandoned in death by his family.

The Dupage County Sheriff’s office, led by Sheriff John Zaruba and his investigators, including lead Detective John Gradus, has searched relentlessly for the young boy’s identity without success.

Reconstructions of what he may have looked like in life are posted on the National Center for Exploited Children’s website. He has been featured on America’s Most Wanted, FACES laboratory in Louisiana did their own reconstructions and he is case number 886UMIL on The Doe Network – where, for the first time a Spanish version was created of his missing poster by a Doe Network volunteer, Arizona Area Director, Cheri Ross.

As a tribute to the two-year anniversary of when he was found, another Doe Network volunteer, Theresa Foxx, an area director for the state of Massachusetts, at the request of another member, created a poignant, touching video found on YouTube entitled “Dupage Johnny Doe-Little Boy Blue – a vidiminitary”.

He is featured on www.Illinoismissing.blogspot.com and on Someone’s Child: www.someoneschild.com; websites created to help families of missing persons in Illinois.

Strangers around the country have embraced the black-haired little boy, found stuffed in a laundry bag and discarded along the side of the road in unincorporated Naperville 2 years ago.

Now in the final days as his burial draws near, it is the fervent hope that someone hears his voice, hears the voices of the strangers that have cared about him for the past two years, pleading with his family, to please come back for your child. Let us bury him with his name, with dignity and with love.

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