Pros To Make Massive Search For Joe Clyde Daniels

CHARLOTTE, TN -- Trained professionals will conduct a large two-day search for the missing body of 5-year-old Joe Clyde Daniels June 1 and 2, the Dickson County Sheriff's Department said.

Fifty specially trained emergency medical service personnel will join a team from Texas Equusearch, which uses horses and ATVs to search for missing persons. Helicopters and drones will search from the air, as well.

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Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe taht bones discovered earlier this week in rural Dickson County are animal bones, according to a state analysis.

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. A huge search May 19 utilizing hundreds of volunteers yielded no clues.

Photo via Tennessee Bureau of Investigation