Nov. 11, 2026
SC Baby Rescued After Buried Alive In Dog Crate For 24 Hours; Father Arrested
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RSS Feed South Carolina first responders rescued an 11 month old little boy after police say his father buried him alive, wrapped in a towel, inside a dog crate. Search teams found a new patch of dirt, 50 yards into the woods and heard little Koah Sharpe crying, a deputy calling it “the most joyful sound you ever heard.” Koah’s father, 25 year old Michael Comer, is under arrest as police try to piece together a motive for this horrific crime. Comer’s own mother is speaking out saying there were no warning signs and what her son is accused of is “pure evil.”
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, November 11th, and we got Miracle on top of Miracle. That's what it took to find 11-month-old, a little boy who had been buried alive by his own dad. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Ropesy, actually, I didn't ask you this ahead of time. Is there any sense of a possible motive for what the.
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Speaker 2: Point of this was?
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Speaker 3: Look, police aren't giving the official motive, but his own mother and little Koa's grandmother is giving a little insight. And she believes, and a lot of folks believe, that this may have been some sort of revenge. He was angry at the baby's mama for moving on.
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Speaker 1: Like jealousy.
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Speaker 3: Yes. That is what one of the operating theories is, and that would make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but this started, Robes, or it shouldn't have started, this, I guess, incident. Robes, he was taking care of his kid. It seemed like normal, and then he decides to go do this. But, Robes, we cannot stress this enough. It's a miracle.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: That the kid died. survived and was breathing. They think it was buried for 24 hours. It's a miracle that authorities even happened upon the area where the kid was buried. Rose, where do you want to start with this? But thank goodness, 11-month-old Koa is alive right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, chills from head to toe.
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Speaker 3: Let's just start with the miracle itself. Because yes, 11 months old, think about this little baby. I was getting it, I was trying to imagine this is a baby usually before they can walk, before they can talk. I mean, helpless in every way. Maybe, you know, yes, Koba could sit up by himself and crawl, but that would be it. He was found clinging to life and wrapped in a towel in a two-by-two dog crate. A two-by-two dog crate.
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Speaker 1: And again, it's an 11-month-old robot. It's possible the kid could have been walking. Some kids do. The kid was mobile, what I'm saying. But the kid is, at 11 months old, that kid could move around and crawl. Could crawl, absolutely. But to think how horrific... Of a manner it is to treat a kid like that.
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Speaker 3: So according to police, 25-year-old Michael Comer, they believe he wrapped his own 11-month-old son in a towel, put him in a two-by-two dog crate, and then buried him about 50 yards into the woods himself.
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Speaker 2: Behind his father's home.
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Speaker 3: So the top of the crate was about a foot underground and police believe that that towel he wrapped his child in actually saved the baby's life because it created just enough of an air pocket and time was running out. They say cool weather may have also helped the fact that it was cooler temperatures. So the baby was able to not breathe as heavily, not get as exhausted.
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Speaker 2: Think about that.
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Speaker 3: But they say, yes, they could hear the baby screaming at the top of his lungs. And that crying, you said this on Morning Run, that the sheriff said it was the most joyful sound you have ever heard.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's cool. That is, okay, there is an upside. There is a God. There is a whatever you want to say, Robes. But just... And if you think about Robes, it's near the house or whatever, but Robes, 50 yards.
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Speaker 3: But not even the house where the baby went missing from.
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Speaker 1: 50 yards, that's some distance and ground to cover, a 50-yard radius around. And you're having to lift every leaf on the ground, if you will.
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Speaker 3: But they didn't even know that that was a house where the baby might be. So to take you through the timeline, basically little Koa had been staying with grandmother. This was Michael Comer's mom. And she said that the mom had full custody, but she allowed her to watch the little boy every now and then. Well, she had to go to work on Monday.
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Speaker 2: Her son, the baby's dad, lives with her. So yeah, she said, can you watch the baby while I'm at work?
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Speaker 3: She was having another caregiver come by around 11 a.m. to drop off some formula to check in on them. And the caregiver calls mom, grandmother, excuse me, at work and says, Michael and Koa are missing. She says to her boss, I need to go, something's wrong, and calls 911. And she said, I had a feeling that something was not right.
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Speaker 1: How did she know that immediately? The kid is with his dad. It shouldn't set off an alarm bell that the two are somewhere, something else in this background, something's going on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we'll get into that in just a bit.
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Speaker 3: So yes, this is now Monday afternoon. So first responders launch trying to go find Michael Comer and the baby, believing that they're together, right? But then they start looking at surveillance video and they find Michael Comer at several locations throughout the city without the baby. So now they're like, where is this baby? They eventually find Michael Comer Monday night and they describe it as an outbuilding at a house.
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Speaker 2: I don't really understand.
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Speaker 1: But hiding.
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Speaker 2: But hiding, for sure.
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Speaker 3: They said he had nothing to say about the whereabouts of his baby. So now they've got him in custody, under arrest. They charge him with burglary, resisting arrest. But they don't know where the baby is, and he's not talking. So now they have to go back and try to find any possible location. So, yes, the baby went missing from grandmother's home. They act to think that they were like, you would think it was just an off chance. Well, let's go look at other known family members' homes. How would they even know to go look at the grandfather's home and then look into the backyard, 50 yards into the woods?
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Speaker 2: This is miraculous.
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Speaker 1: This is where, give them credit and applaud them. That's some good police work. They did whatever instincts told them to do and they got lucky, whatever. Rosa, give them credit on this one. And to hear those cries and not, I wanted to look up the sheriff who made that comment about, it's like the greatest cry you'll ever hear. That dude is a dad or a granddad.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I would love to look that guy up.
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Speaker 3: Can you imagine the scene, though? You're looking, you're looking, and you're probably thinking this is a needle in the haystack. There's no way we're going to find this kid in these woods or whatever.
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Speaker 2: It's just a total.
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Speaker 3: shot in the dark, and you see freshly disturbed dirt. And as you're approaching this freshly disturbed dirt, you hear, can you imagine the sound of hearing muffled screams and cries?
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Speaker 2: You'd be thinking, what the actual hell?
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Speaker 1: You know, you're thinking, wow, we can save this kid. That was a freshly, what was he thinking? What was he doing? I know you're going to get into the motives of background here in a second, but just what Robes, and there was dirt. You had to dig a hole. You had to put a kid in a cage.
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Speaker 3: What I'm thinking is the baby's sleeping, and he wraps the baby in a towel. And, you know, you see this, and this is awful, but we watch enough true crime, and we've seen enough and reported on enough stories where when someone puts a blanket over a body or covers a body or wraps a body up, oftentimes posthumously after they've killed this person, it's usually because they loved that person.
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Speaker 2: They cared for that person.
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Speaker 3: And there's something about not wanting to see their face or see their body. And so I was imagining he probably wrapped this baby up so as to like remove himself from seeing the baby, but also in a loving way, that towel saved that baby's life. Cause imagine the dog crate has holes in it. So you go to bear the dirt would have all fallen into the crate. And if that towel hadn't been around that baby, the baby would have been smothered immediately.
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Speaker 1: That's an interesting theory you have and the credit you're willing to give him for possibly having some care or love for this kid. I hear you, and my mind ain't getting nowhere close to that.
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Speaker 2: Why do you wrap the baby in a towel?
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Speaker 1: Don't know what he was thinking or why, but I'm not giving him credit for it. It's horrific. You put an 11-month-old in a doll cage and buried the child to die. And when you had an opportunity to tell authorities, possibly to get to said kid, you would not tell them.
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Speaker 3: How, how, how could someone have that in their heart where you could actually.
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Speaker 2: Know this entire time your child, is he breathing? Is he suffering? Is he dead?
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Speaker 3: He's under the ground where no one may ever find him. I just, this story is, I mean, thank God. Thank God it had the ending it did because I don't even know how you'd report on a story like this otherwise because it just is that evil and that unthinkable. Yes, so when we come back, we are going to tell you because his own mother, Patricia Comer, the woman who actually was supposed to be watching the baby, she has given an interview to NBC News talking about her son and what she believes happened that led to this unbelievable discovery in South Carolina. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. This is nothing short of a miracle. An 11-month-old baby found buried in a shallow grave in a dog crate, wrapped in a towel, surviving 24 hours.
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Speaker 2: That poor little baby.
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Speaker 3: You know, the sheriff also said the hope is that because he is just 11 months old that there will never be a memory of this or any trauma associated with experiencing those 24 hours, who knows?
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Speaker 1: Is that how that works? they say a certain age you don't remember anything right I.
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Speaker 3: Don't know something this traumatic would something in your brain stay with you I don't know obviously this baby is going to learn that his own father buried him alive.
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Speaker 2: That that's going to be a tough tough piece of information to live with you have to know that I think you do.
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Speaker 1: He's going to ask at some point Can you tell me about my dad? Oh, he's in prison? What for? Well, son, sit down. I mean, what are you doing?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Would you want to tell your kid this?
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Speaker 2: No, I would not.
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Speaker 1: Would you have to?
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Speaker 3: I would want to protect my child from that for as long as possible. Even changing their names so they couldn't Google themselves. I mean, I would literally consider that. Because the damage that would do to know that your own parent was willing to do that to you. Yeah. Because you can say, yes, your father was sick. Yes, your father was mentally disturbed. But does that still take away the pain that that would cause? Period.
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Speaker 1: Down the road, down the wide.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that just hit me too, right?
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Speaker 3: But his grandmother, Patricia Comer, Michael's own mom, so she told reporters that she had concerns about her son's mental health. She had concerns about the ongoing issues with the child's mother because, yes, police have said there have been domestic violence incidents situations between Michael Comer and Koa's mom that have resulted in charges. So yes, he has been charged with domestic violence in the past, and his mom said that he'd been diagnosed with schizophrenia and manic depression, and yet... she said that he had never had any issues with his son, that he had always been a loving father, and that despite that, and yes, he had a violent history, and yes, he had a criminal history, she never worried about leaving him alone with his own son, and there was no court order saying that.
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Speaker 2: He couldn't have unsupervised visits.
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Speaker 3: There was no reason why she should have been worried that anything like this would have happened, is what she's saying.
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Speaker 2: However... She did talk to your point.
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Speaker 3: Why did she immediately jump to the conclusion that the little boy was in danger? Because she said when she went to work on Monday and she left COA in her son's and his father's care, when she got that call from her friend saying nobody's home, she said, call it mother's instinct. I don't know what it was, but she left work, raised home and called nine one one.
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Speaker 1: That sounds like a panicked situation with very few answers to what was going on. Robes, you don't normally, you could have gone to the grocery store. Do you have to call your mama and tell her, hey, I'm taking my baby to the grocery store?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of options were there. Did she try to call? repeatedly and didn't get an answer.
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Speaker 2: Probably is what I would think.
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Speaker 1: We assume, but it sounded like she made a move so quickly.
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Speaker 2: She did. She moved pretty quickly.
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Speaker 3: Now, her quote was, just know that if I could have prevented this, I would have done everything in my power. I had no idea this was going to happen. Who would think their own child would do something like this? She said what her son is accused of doing is pure evil. And she says there were no warning signs that he was capable.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, this is extreme. No warning signs.
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Speaker 1: How documented is the mental health?
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Speaker 3: It's her word saying that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. And what was the other condition? She said manic depression. Now, she also did say her son lives with her because he just got out of prison. He drunkenly went to the home of an ex-boyfriend.
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Speaker 2: Of Koa's mom.
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Speaker 3: So that's where she believes jealousy had something to do with this because he just got out of jail for attacking an ex of Koa's mom.
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Speaker 1: So he was in jail for a violent act.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 1: Against the mom's new guy. Yes. Am I piecing that together right? Okay.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 3: So clearly he had jealousy issues. Clearly he has violent issues. not only with the mom's ex, but apparently with the mom herself. But she said all he does is go to work and come home. He was on his best behavior, again, on probation, just released from jail. And so, yes, you might be able to be from the outside looking and saying, woman, how did you think it was okay to leave a man with mental health issues, a 25-year-old volatile man who has violent tendencies, who has mental health issues, who has clear jealousy issues against the baby's mom, How did you think that was a safe thing to do?
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, she's in defense mode right now.
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Speaker 1: Where do you ever, we talk, we see this now, I would never think somebody could do that to their kid.
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Speaker 2: And that's what she's saying.
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 1: You would never think that. You wouldn't think that about Lindsey Clancy. Right? All that stuff. He didn't have a problem going to the store and leaving him alone, her alone with her kids.
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Speaker 3: Right? Right.
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Speaker 1: Using, obviously that's a very glaring example lately, but I see what she's saying.
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Speaker 3: Yes. And to that point, the baby's own mom who had full custody, I mean, you let grandma have some grandma time with the baby while you're doing your thing. It sounds like these parents are young, so probably glad to have the help, but there was.
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Speaker 2: No, and I think it's fair, there was no court order.
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Speaker 3: There was no directive by mom, don't let dad, don't let Michael be around our baby. So look, this is, I don't think this is anything anybody.
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Speaker 2: Would expect from a father.
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Speaker 3: And especially when it's your own son, you wouldn't think, no one wants to believe their child is capable of this type of evil.
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Speaker 1: These are hard to keep covering, man. Dad's killing the kids, trying to kill their kids. This is a tough one. Even though we have a positive outcome on this story, the idea of it, it's just, it's horrific. It keeps tearing at you a little bit, baby, and just the humanity of what's around you. I don't know, this makes you paranoid baby unsafe it makes you feel like you can't trust anything or anybody or sometimes even your own instincts with people that are in your orbit maybe.
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Speaker 3: Yeah well it's it is a cautionary tale to to believe people when they tell you or show you who they are but there's also yes the silver lining that you just see so many good people hundreds of people volunteers first responders searching for this little boy and they found him alive just in the nick of time and with that everyone we always appreciate you listening to us I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes we'll talk to you soon
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, November 11th, and we got Miracle on top of Miracle. That's what it took to find 11-month-old, a little boy who had been buried alive by his own dad. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Ropesy, actually, I didn't ask you this ahead of time. Is there any sense of a possible motive for what the.
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Speaker 2: Point of this was?
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Speaker 3: Look, police aren't giving the official motive, but his own mother and little Koa's grandmother is giving a little insight. And she believes, and a lot of folks believe, that this may have been some sort of revenge. He was angry at the baby's mama for moving on.
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Speaker 1: Like jealousy.
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Speaker 3: Yes. That is what one of the operating theories is, and that would make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but this started, Robes, or it shouldn't have started, this, I guess, incident. Robes, he was taking care of his kid. It seemed like normal, and then he decides to go do this. But, Robes, we cannot stress this enough. It's a miracle.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: That the kid died. survived and was breathing. They think it was buried for 24 hours. It's a miracle that authorities even happened upon the area where the kid was buried. Rose, where do you want to start with this? But thank goodness, 11-month-old Koa is alive right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, chills from head to toe.
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Speaker 3: Let's just start with the miracle itself. Because yes, 11 months old, think about this little baby. I was getting it, I was trying to imagine this is a baby usually before they can walk, before they can talk. I mean, helpless in every way. Maybe, you know, yes, Koba could sit up by himself and crawl, but that would be it. He was found clinging to life and wrapped in a towel in a two-by-two dog crate. A two-by-two dog crate.
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Speaker 1: And again, it's an 11-month-old robot. It's possible the kid could have been walking. Some kids do. The kid was mobile, what I'm saying. But the kid is, at 11 months old, that kid could move around and crawl. Could crawl, absolutely. But to think how horrific... Of a manner it is to treat a kid like that.
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Speaker 3: So according to police, 25-year-old Michael Comer, they believe he wrapped his own 11-month-old son in a towel, put him in a two-by-two dog crate, and then buried him about 50 yards into the woods himself.
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Speaker 2: Behind his father's home.
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Speaker 3: So the top of the crate was about a foot underground and police believe that that towel he wrapped his child in actually saved the baby's life because it created just enough of an air pocket and time was running out. They say cool weather may have also helped the fact that it was cooler temperatures. So the baby was able to not breathe as heavily, not get as exhausted.
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Speaker 2: Think about that.
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Speaker 3: But they say, yes, they could hear the baby screaming at the top of his lungs. And that crying, you said this on Morning Run, that the sheriff said it was the most joyful sound you have ever heard.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's cool. That is, okay, there is an upside. There is a God. There is a whatever you want to say, Robes. But just... And if you think about Robes, it's near the house or whatever, but Robes, 50 yards.
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Speaker 3: But not even the house where the baby went missing from.
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Speaker 1: 50 yards, that's some distance and ground to cover, a 50-yard radius around. And you're having to lift every leaf on the ground, if you will.
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Speaker 3: But they didn't even know that that was a house where the baby might be. So to take you through the timeline, basically little Koa had been staying with grandmother. This was Michael Comer's mom. And she said that the mom had full custody, but she allowed her to watch the little boy every now and then. Well, she had to go to work on Monday.
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Speaker 2: Her son, the baby's dad, lives with her. So yeah, she said, can you watch the baby while I'm at work?
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Speaker 3: She was having another caregiver come by around 11 a.m. to drop off some formula to check in on them. And the caregiver calls mom, grandmother, excuse me, at work and says, Michael and Koa are missing. She says to her boss, I need to go, something's wrong, and calls 911. And she said, I had a feeling that something was not right.
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Speaker 1: How did she know that immediately? The kid is with his dad. It shouldn't set off an alarm bell that the two are somewhere, something else in this background, something's going on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we'll get into that in just a bit.
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Speaker 3: So yes, this is now Monday afternoon. So first responders launch trying to go find Michael Comer and the baby, believing that they're together, right? But then they start looking at surveillance video and they find Michael Comer at several locations throughout the city without the baby. So now they're like, where is this baby? They eventually find Michael Comer Monday night and they describe it as an outbuilding at a house.
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Speaker 2: I don't really understand.
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Speaker 1: But hiding.
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Speaker 2: But hiding, for sure.
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Speaker 3: They said he had nothing to say about the whereabouts of his baby. So now they've got him in custody, under arrest. They charge him with burglary, resisting arrest. But they don't know where the baby is, and he's not talking. So now they have to go back and try to find any possible location. So, yes, the baby went missing from grandmother's home. They act to think that they were like, you would think it was just an off chance. Well, let's go look at other known family members' homes. How would they even know to go look at the grandfather's home and then look into the backyard, 50 yards into the woods?
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Speaker 2: This is miraculous.
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Speaker 1: This is where, give them credit and applaud them. That's some good police work. They did whatever instincts told them to do and they got lucky, whatever. Rosa, give them credit on this one. And to hear those cries and not, I wanted to look up the sheriff who made that comment about, it's like the greatest cry you'll ever hear. That dude is a dad or a granddad.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I would love to look that guy up.
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Speaker 3: Can you imagine the scene, though? You're looking, you're looking, and you're probably thinking this is a needle in the haystack. There's no way we're going to find this kid in these woods or whatever.
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Speaker 2: It's just a total.
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Speaker 3: shot in the dark, and you see freshly disturbed dirt. And as you're approaching this freshly disturbed dirt, you hear, can you imagine the sound of hearing muffled screams and cries?
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Speaker 2: You'd be thinking, what the actual hell?
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Speaker 1: You know, you're thinking, wow, we can save this kid. That was a freshly, what was he thinking? What was he doing? I know you're going to get into the motives of background here in a second, but just what Robes, and there was dirt. You had to dig a hole. You had to put a kid in a cage.
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Speaker 3: What I'm thinking is the baby's sleeping, and he wraps the baby in a towel. And, you know, you see this, and this is awful, but we watch enough true crime, and we've seen enough and reported on enough stories where when someone puts a blanket over a body or covers a body or wraps a body up, oftentimes posthumously after they've killed this person, it's usually because they loved that person.
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Speaker 2: They cared for that person.
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Speaker 3: And there's something about not wanting to see their face or see their body. And so I was imagining he probably wrapped this baby up so as to like remove himself from seeing the baby, but also in a loving way, that towel saved that baby's life. Cause imagine the dog crate has holes in it. So you go to bear the dirt would have all fallen into the crate. And if that towel hadn't been around that baby, the baby would have been smothered immediately.
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Speaker 1: That's an interesting theory you have and the credit you're willing to give him for possibly having some care or love for this kid. I hear you, and my mind ain't getting nowhere close to that.
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Speaker 2: Why do you wrap the baby in a towel?
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Speaker 1: Don't know what he was thinking or why, but I'm not giving him credit for it. It's horrific. You put an 11-month-old in a doll cage and buried the child to die. And when you had an opportunity to tell authorities, possibly to get to said kid, you would not tell them.
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Speaker 3: How, how, how could someone have that in their heart where you could actually.
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Speaker 2: Know this entire time your child, is he breathing? Is he suffering? Is he dead?
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Speaker 3: He's under the ground where no one may ever find him. I just, this story is, I mean, thank God. Thank God it had the ending it did because I don't even know how you'd report on a story like this otherwise because it just is that evil and that unthinkable. Yes, so when we come back, we are going to tell you because his own mother, Patricia Comer, the woman who actually was supposed to be watching the baby, she has given an interview to NBC News talking about her son and what she believes happened that led to this unbelievable discovery in South Carolina. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. This is nothing short of a miracle. An 11-month-old baby found buried in a shallow grave in a dog crate, wrapped in a towel, surviving 24 hours.
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Speaker 2: That poor little baby.
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Speaker 3: You know, the sheriff also said the hope is that because he is just 11 months old that there will never be a memory of this or any trauma associated with experiencing those 24 hours, who knows?
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Speaker 1: Is that how that works? they say a certain age you don't remember anything right I.
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Speaker 3: Don't know something this traumatic would something in your brain stay with you I don't know obviously this baby is going to learn that his own father buried him alive.
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Speaker 2: That that's going to be a tough tough piece of information to live with you have to know that I think you do.
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Speaker 1: He's going to ask at some point Can you tell me about my dad? Oh, he's in prison? What for? Well, son, sit down. I mean, what are you doing?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Would you want to tell your kid this?
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Speaker 2: No, I would not.
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Speaker 1: Would you have to?
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Speaker 3: I would want to protect my child from that for as long as possible. Even changing their names so they couldn't Google themselves. I mean, I would literally consider that. Because the damage that would do to know that your own parent was willing to do that to you. Yeah. Because you can say, yes, your father was sick. Yes, your father was mentally disturbed. But does that still take away the pain that that would cause? Period.
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Speaker 1: Down the road, down the wide.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that just hit me too, right?
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Speaker 3: But his grandmother, Patricia Comer, Michael's own mom, so she told reporters that she had concerns about her son's mental health. She had concerns about the ongoing issues with the child's mother because, yes, police have said there have been domestic violence incidents situations between Michael Comer and Koa's mom that have resulted in charges. So yes, he has been charged with domestic violence in the past, and his mom said that he'd been diagnosed with schizophrenia and manic depression, and yet... she said that he had never had any issues with his son, that he had always been a loving father, and that despite that, and yes, he had a violent history, and yes, he had a criminal history, she never worried about leaving him alone with his own son, and there was no court order saying that.
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Speaker 2: He couldn't have unsupervised visits.
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Speaker 3: There was no reason why she should have been worried that anything like this would have happened, is what she's saying.
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Speaker 2: However... She did talk to your point.
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Speaker 3: Why did she immediately jump to the conclusion that the little boy was in danger? Because she said when she went to work on Monday and she left COA in her son's and his father's care, when she got that call from her friend saying nobody's home, she said, call it mother's instinct. I don't know what it was, but she left work, raised home and called nine one one.
00:12:31
Speaker 1: That sounds like a panicked situation with very few answers to what was going on. Robes, you don't normally, you could have gone to the grocery store. Do you have to call your mama and tell her, hey, I'm taking my baby to the grocery store?
00:12:42
Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of options were there. Did she try to call? repeatedly and didn't get an answer.
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Speaker 2: Probably is what I would think.
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Speaker 1: We assume, but it sounded like she made a move so quickly.
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Speaker 2: She did. She moved pretty quickly.
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Speaker 3: Now, her quote was, just know that if I could have prevented this, I would have done everything in my power. I had no idea this was going to happen. Who would think their own child would do something like this? She said what her son is accused of doing is pure evil. And she says there were no warning signs that he was capable.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, this is extreme. No warning signs.
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Speaker 1: How documented is the mental health?
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Speaker 3: It's her word saying that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. And what was the other condition? She said manic depression. Now, she also did say her son lives with her because he just got out of prison. He drunkenly went to the home of an ex-boyfriend.
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Speaker 2: Of Koa's mom.
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Speaker 3: So that's where she believes jealousy had something to do with this because he just got out of jail for attacking an ex of Koa's mom.
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Speaker 1: So he was in jail for a violent act.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 1: Against the mom's new guy. Yes. Am I piecing that together right? Okay.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 3: So clearly he had jealousy issues. Clearly he has violent issues. not only with the mom's ex, but apparently with the mom herself. But she said all he does is go to work and come home. He was on his best behavior, again, on probation, just released from jail. And so, yes, you might be able to be from the outside looking and saying, woman, how did you think it was okay to leave a man with mental health issues, a 25-year-old volatile man who has violent tendencies, who has mental health issues, who has clear jealousy issues against the baby's mom, How did you think that was a safe thing to do?
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, she's in defense mode right now.
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Speaker 1: Where do you ever, we talk, we see this now, I would never think somebody could do that to their kid.
00:14:46
Speaker 2: And that's what she's saying.
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Speaker 3: Right?
00:14:47
Speaker 1: You would never think that. You wouldn't think that about Lindsey Clancy. Right? All that stuff. He didn't have a problem going to the store and leaving him alone, her alone with her kids.
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Speaker 3: Right? Right.
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Speaker 1: Using, obviously that's a very glaring example lately, but I see what she's saying.
00:15:03
Speaker 3: Yes. And to that point, the baby's own mom who had full custody, I mean, you let grandma have some grandma time with the baby while you're doing your thing. It sounds like these parents are young, so probably glad to have the help, but there was.
00:15:17
Speaker 2: No, and I think it's fair, there was no court order.
00:15:20
Speaker 3: There was no directive by mom, don't let dad, don't let Michael be around our baby. So look, this is, I don't think this is anything anybody.
00:15:31
Speaker 2: Would expect from a father.
00:15:33
Speaker 3: And especially when it's your own son, you wouldn't think, no one wants to believe their child is capable of this type of evil.
00:15:39
Speaker 1: These are hard to keep covering, man. Dad's killing the kids, trying to kill their kids. This is a tough one. Even though we have a positive outcome on this story, the idea of it, it's just, it's horrific. It keeps tearing at you a little bit, baby, and just the humanity of what's around you. I don't know, this makes you paranoid baby unsafe it makes you feel like you can't trust anything or anybody or sometimes even your own instincts with people that are in your orbit maybe.
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Speaker 3: Yeah well it's it is a cautionary tale to to believe people when they tell you or show you who they are but there's also yes the silver lining that you just see so many good people hundreds of people volunteers first responders searching for this little boy and they found him alive just in the nick of time and with that everyone we always appreciate you listening to us I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes we'll talk to you soon