Idaho prosecutors are filing murder charges four years after the disappearance of a Fruitland 5-year-old who is believed to have been abducted and killed in his own neighborhood.

“My office is moving forward with charges against the individuals involved in the disappearance and murder of 5-year-old Michael Vaughan, which occurred in the summer of 2021,” Payette County Prosecutor Michael Duke said in a statement late Friday morning.

He stopped short of explaining who or how many suspects were being charged, and a woman who answered his office phone said she could not share anything beyond Duke’s statement.

However, a felon who had previously been suspected in the case and lived near the victim when he vanished has been named in an arrest warrant, according to KTVB-7 , a local outlet

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