Missing 11-month-old baby found buried alive in a crate in South Carolina

Comer was seen travelling to multiple locations without the baby and was later arrested in Lexington County without Sharpe. A search party of 100 police and fire department officials were then sent to search for the child, the sheriff said.

He added that when they asked Comer where his son was, he "did not have much to say" about his whereabouts.

Koon said that rescuers searched the woods near Comer's father's house and saw some "freshly disturbed dirt". As they began to dig, they heard a baby crying - something the sheriff described as "the most joyful sound you ever heard".