Missing Palm Beach Girl Found Dead

POSTED: Sunday, September 21, 2008

UPDATED: 8:46 am EDT September 21, 2008

WELLINGTON, Fla. -- Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies have called off the search for a 5-year-old girl with autism who went missing Saturday.

Investigators said Kaitlin Bacile wandered away from her home in Wellington. Bacile was found dead in a pond behind her home Sunday morning.

There is still no word on how the girl died.

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