Joe Clyde Daniels: Another Fruitless Search

CHARLOTTE, TN -- Another search for the body of 5-year-old Joe Clyde Daniels came up empty Saturday.

Eight volunteers from Texas Equusearch checked dozens of road pull-offs in northern Dickson County Saturday, but found nothing.

"We're doing every pull-off that we can, that makes sense. We feel that that's what the suspect did," David Rader, director of the Midwest chapter of Texas Equusearch, told WKRN.

Joe Clyde Daniels was reported missing by his parents from their home in rural Dickson County northwest of Nashville the morning of April 4, launching a massive search utilizing hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement officers. The boy's father, Joe Daniels, was arrested April 7, charged with beating his son to death and hiding his body. His mother, Krystal Daniels, was arrested two days later, charged with aggravated child neglect.

Joe Daniels did not initially offer detectives any tips as to where the body was, though once that changed none of the locations he offered have "panned out," investigators say. A huge search May 19 utilizing hundreds of volunteers yielded no clues.

Photo via Tennessee Bureau of Investigation