MONROE, Mich. (July 14) -- Autopsy results indicate a 5-year-old girl whose body was found buried near a Michigan river suffocated after inhaling dirt.
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The Monroe County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday that Nevaeh Buchanan either was buried alive or had her face forcibly pressed into dirt by another person. The autopsy could not determine the exact manner of death.
Nevaeh's body was found covered by cement in a shallow grave on June 4. She disappeared 10 days earlier from outside an apartment complex in Monroe, triggering a massive search by police and residents of the city about 35 miles south of Detroit.
Two fishermen found her grave along the River Raisin in nearby Raisinville Township.
No one has been arrested in the girl's death.
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