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Infrared Cameras Now Used In Search For Avonte Oquendo, The Missing Autistic Boy


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Jen Chung

Published Oct 18, 2013

Modified Oct 18, 2013


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The image on the left is of the actual shirt Avonte was wearing the day he went missing
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