Athena Brownfield update: A missing four-year-old in rural Oklahoma has been found dead.
Police believe one of the child's caregivers beat her to death on Christmas night, then buried her remains.The state's medical examiner positively identified remains discovered last Tuesday in Rush Springs as those of Athena Brownfield.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced on Jan. 17 that the remains of a child were found in rural Grady County near Rush Springs. OSBI officials said at the time that they could not confirm that the remains were those of Athena and that the remains were sent to the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office for positive identification.
Police started looking for her the previous week after a postal worker spotted her 5-year-old sister wandering alone outside their home in Cyril.
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