Indiana State Police said late Thursday that investigators had found the body of a missing 1-year-old girl and a suspect was in custody in her death.
Spokesman Curt Duil said a body matching the description of Shaylyn Ammerman was found near the White River outside Gosport. The child's mother, Jessica Stewart, confirmed to Fox59 that the body was that of her daughter.
An autopsy was scheduled for Friday.
The girl was reported missing Wednesday moing. Shaylyn's father and grandmother, Justin Ammerman and Tamera Morgan, were the last people known to have seen the child around midnight Tuesday. She'd been staying at the father's home about 50 miles southwest of Indianapolis under a joint custody arrangement with the girl's mother.
"I put her to bed around 10:00 or 10:30 and I checked on her at midnight before I went to bed," Morgan said. "She was laying in her bed sound asleep and then we went to bed and we woke up and she was gone."
Kyle Parker, 22, was taken into custody in coection with the case. The Indianapolis Star reported that he faced preliminary charges of obstruction of justice, unlawful disposal of a dead body, and failure to report a dead body.
Justin Ammerman said he was "just shocked that somebody would do this to me," and believes someone took his daughter from her crib in the middle of the night.
"Somebody's got a big grudge over us," he said.
Shaylyn's disappearance prompted a search involving more than 100 people, including including a search-and-rescue team, FBI agents, Indiana Department of Natural Resources staff and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.