Body of missing 4-year-old Alabama boy found two miles from home

In the quiet hills of Walker County, Alabama, the new year arrived with a grief that no calendar can soften — a 4-year-old boy named Johnathan Everett Boley, last seen playing near a fence line on New Year's Eve, was found two miles from his father's home, his loyal dog alive beside him. The search that drew drones, dive teams, and federal agents ended not in relief but in mourning, leaving behind a family fractured by distance and circumstance, and questions that investigators are only beginning to answer. In the oldest and most painful of human stories, a child's vulnerability met a world th