Massive Search Planned For Joe Clyde Daniels

CHARLOTTE, TN -- The Dickson County Sheriff's Department is planning a massive search for the body of 5-year-old Joe Clyde Daniels and is asking for well-trained volunteers to act as team leaders.

The department is looking for "30 to 50 adult volunteers with emergency services backgrounds in law enforcement, firefighting, EMT or military services, to serve as team leaders for a large scale search for the body of Joe Clyde Daniels," according to a press release.

"All team leaders must be physically capable of leading a group of community volunteers through mixed terrain. All volunteers must have appropriate clothing, footwear and equipment to be considered as a team leader," the release said.

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Qualified people interested in being team leaders should meet at Freed-Hardeman Dickson at the Renaissance Center Saturday, May 12 at 3 p.m. The search, which will require significant numbers of volunteers, will be May 19. Information for general volunteers will be made available soon.

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 that has changed in recent weeks, although none of the locations he's offered have "panned out," investigators say.

Photo via Tennessee Bureau of Investigation