Body of 11-Year-Old Texas Girl Who Vanished on Way to School Reportedly Found in River

The body of an 11-year-old Texas girl who went missing last week on her way to school was found Tuesday in a nearby river, according to local NBC affiliate KPRC.

Details remain thin, pending an update by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office later this afternoon. A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety said the missing persons case had now become a criminal investigation.

A local man, 42-year-old Don Steven McDougal, has been named as a person of interest in Audrii Cunningham’s mysterious disappearance on Feb. 15. He lived in a trailer behind her father’s home in Livingston, a small town about an hour from Houston.

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