Authorities are looking for the bodies of four young children along the Dauphin Island Bridge in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Lam Luong confessed that he threw the children into the water below the bridge on Tuesday night.
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children are 4 month old Danny Luong, 1 year old Lindsey Luong, 2 year old Hannah Luong and 3 year old Ryan Phan. All except for Ryan are Luong's biological children. Luong raised Ryan from infancy.
Luong is being jailed in Mobile. He is due in court Wednesday to face four capital murder charges.
It is alleged that Luong committed this heinous act as revenge aimed at his wife. He reported his children missing on Monday. He told the police that a woman who had the children failed to return them to him.
The bridge connects coastal Alabama to a barrier island three miles south of Mobile Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel. "We'll be back first thing in the morning. We'll have a command post set up here at the bottom of the bridge, and the sheriff's department is going to try to do all we can to help the situation or recover what we can," Cayton tells the station.
A press conference will be held at noon.
