| father tossed kids off bridge; 2 of 4 bodies found
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The body of a 3-year-old boy was recovered Sunday in the search for four young siblings who might have been thrown from a coastal bridge by their father, the authorities said.
The body was found by two men looking for oysters about five miles west of the Dauphin Island bridge, a three-mile structure over the Intracoastal Waterway that connects Mobile to Dauphin Island, said Sheriff Sam Cochran of Mobile County. The body of the 3-year-old’s infant brother was found Saturday by a duck hunter about two miles west of the bridge, the authorities said.
Sheriff Cochran said the remaining two bodies might be in the same area or might have been swept westward by the current. The search, which will resume Monday and is expected to be concentrated on the marshes along the shore, was being expanded toward Pascagoula, Miss., to the west.
As the search was conducted by helicopter and airplane, airboats also shuttled volunteers into the shallow, boggy shoreline. Some walked hand in hand, upending logs and probing debris left by the high tide.
Mr. Luong, a shrimp boat worker who lives in Irvington, Ala., was being held without bail on four counts of capital murder.
District Attorney John Tyson Jr. said Mr. Luong, 37, had confessed to throwing the children — Ryan Phan, 3; Hannah Luong, 2; Lindsey Luong, 1; and Danny Luong, 4 months — off the bridge after arguing with his wife.
Mr. Luong later recanted, saying two Asian women had taken the children and had not returned them. A witness saw him on the bridge with the children, and another saw him leave the area without them, the police said.
Mr. Luong’s appointed lawyer, Joe Kulakowski, attempted to meet with him on Sunday but said he was unable to arrange it with jail officials. Mr. Kulakowski said he planned to ask the court on Monday to appoint a Vietnamese interpreter to help him.
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