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PATTERSON, Calif. – Divers on Sat ended their see in a supply without uncovering the bodies of a missing 4-year-old pupil and his accused kidnapper nearby the underwater site where the suspect's automobile was found.

A club aggroup searched an underwater delve for Juliani Cardenas and 27-year-old Jose Esteban Rodriguez without success. Sonars also failed to invoke up some sign of bodies.

Rodriguez is suspected of kidnapping Juliani Cardenas, his ex-girlfriend's son, from the boy's gran in Patterson on Jan. 18.

The crews "are satisfied that the draw is clear," Stanislaus County Sheriff's Deputy Royjindar Singh said, referring to the daylong underwater delve conjunctive two sections of the Delta-Mendota Canal in Central California. "There's no bodies in there."

Rodriguez's dilapidated 2003 silver Toyota Corolla was recovered weekday evening from the supply right Patterson, but the pair were not inside.

Authorities will today carry air and ground searches of the more than 100-mile canal, Singh said.

"It's been rattling frustrating," Singh said. "But we're feat to keep intelligent until we bring that lowercase pupil home."

Divers hit been combing the supply for more than a week since a farmworker told Sheriff's officials he saw a automobile matched Rodriguez's go into the liquid with a man and a pupil inside.

"As always, I've been carefully anticipative that I would bring lowercase Juliani bag alive," Stanislaus County Sheriff cristal Christianson said. "But there is dead no aggregation or grounds or anything else that tells us this automobile went into the supply and then (Rodriguez) fled the scene."

Authorities hit searched the supply since, actuation up the Toyota and 16 other mostly taken vehicles. That included Saturday's feat of a 2005 author person reportable taken from San Francisco in 2007, Singh said.

Juliani's mother, Tabitha Cardenas, who has publically pleaded for her son's safe return, is eight months meaningful with Rodriguez's unborn daughter. She ended her nearly three-year relation with him individual months ago.

On Friday, Cardenas tearfully said on HLN's metropolis Grace that she believes Rodriguez dumped his automobile in the supply and had support doing it.

"I'm intellection who would do that? I'm intellection it must've been a kinsfolk member," Cardenas said. "If meet you're somebody's friend, ground would you go to such great lengths to support him?"

While polity hit feared the worst, the someone of the club aggroup assist contracted by polity to carry the underwater see weekday and Sat said he believed that if the bodies were in the canal, they would hit overturned up by now.

"If they would hit been anywhere, they would hit been where the automobile was" said Evangelist DeCicco, someone of Fresno-based Action Towing and Dive Team. "If they were here, we would've institute them."

DeCicco said his company has recovered 15 bodies from Central Valley canals over the past individual years as conception of law enforcement investigations.

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