12-year-old boy’s decaying body was discovered in a Buffalo, New Yorks attic months after his mother died, leaving no clue what happened to her son.

aylen Griffin’s body was discovered last Friday in the attic of a residence in upstate New York. The site is around five miles from where he was last seen on August 4, 2020, leaving his residence in Buffalo’s Central Terminal. Buffalo Police Commissioner, Joseph Gramaglia, stated that the body had been “up there in the house” for a “significant amount of time”. While they couldn’t say exactly how long the remains had been there, dental records confirmed the boy’s identification. The medical examiner deemed the death a homicide, but police did not disclose any other information about the cause of death. Jaylen’s 48-year-old mother, Joann Ponzo, died in September before finding out what happened to her son. She passed away from a deteriorating heart following her son’s disappearance.