Body Of 5-Year-Old AJ Freud Uncovered, Parents Andrew Freund Sr. & JoAnn Cunningham Charged With Murder

The body of 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freud has been found after a missing child report was filed last week.

His parents Andrew Freund Sr. and JoAnn Cunningham have been charged with his murder, after an interview and cell phone data led authorities to AJ’s body in Woodstock, Illinois, about 10 miles from their home in Crystal Lake, police said.

According to police, both parents are faced with charges of first degree murder, aggravated battery, aggravated domestic battery and failure to report a missing or child death. And his father, Freud Sr. also faces charges of concealment of homicidal death.

It’s unclear if Freud Sr. has obtained legal representation yet and Cunningham’s lawyers have not responded to requests for comment.

The search for the missing boy started when Freud Sr. called the police last Thursday claiming AJ went missing one morning while Freud Sr. attended a doctor’s appointment.

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“We have a missing child,” he said, according to a 911 call released by the Crystal Lake Police Department on Tuesday. “Woke up this morning and he wasn’t … he wasn’t. I had a doctor appointment this morning,” he continued,  “and when I got back from the doctor’s appointment and I checked in on him to say good morning and he wasn’t there,” the father told the dispatcher Thursday.

The resulting search included 15 police agencies, drones and rescue canine units. But police said it was likely that AJ had not walked away and was not abducted, and instead focused the investigation on the family home.

This is not the first time the family has been involved with the police.

Tuesday authorities released 63 pages of reports detailing several police calls to Andrew’s home in recent years, and in December an officer described conditions in the home as unlivable. Months earlier a neighbor called to check on the children as the home was without power.

In light of the investigation, the younger sibling has been removed from the home and is now living with another family.