{"id":145717,"date":"2026-02-26T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:02:31","slug":"queens-da-seeks-to-solve-cold-case-involving-toddler-the-rockaway-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145717\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens DA Seeks to Solve Cold Case Involving Toddler \u2013 THE ROCKAWAY TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz is hoping to solve another cold case, this time a case involving a deceased toddler found 21 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On February 5, 2005, unidentified male child remains were found on the beach at Beach 110 Street in Rockaway. The child was wrapped in a special edition \u201cfire chief\u201d Disney blanket. The remains were placed in a yellow plasticized canvas duffle bag, which was wrapped in duct tape.<\/p>\n<p>The boy, either Caucasian or Hispanic, was approximately 3 to 5 years old, about three feet tall and had brown, slightly wavy hair about 7.5 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information as to the identity of the victim, please contact the NYPD cold case squad or Crimestoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS Or visit: CrimeStoppers.NYPDONLINE.ORG. You can also download and use the Crime Stoppers app. All tips are confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is never too late for justice,\u201d Katz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz is hoping to solve another cold case, this time a case involving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-145717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}