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Daddy goes out of town to work and then gets the distressing news. His son is missing driving straight home through the night overnight.

He arrives to find more questions than answers in the last hours.

We learn the autopsy result of that little boy, five-year-old Lucas Hernandez.

His little body found under a bridge in an obscure rural area and who but his own stepmother led a private investigator to that obscure spot Emily Glass.

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.

In addition to obtaining the autopsy report on little Lucas, we have also learned the cause of death on the stepmother Emily Glass.

Joining me right now, we now medical examiner, Dr. William Moroni.

Let's first start with little Lucas, five-year-old Lucas who goes missing in the care of his so-called stepmother.

Dr. Moroni, what do you make of it?

The autopsy is an autopsy of a body of a child in advanced state of decommission.

So there's not a lot of traditional landmarks. There's the skeletal remains and there's a sample from the liver and the body or the remains were tested for drugs.

The most important thing is the liver and the kidneys were tested because in the case of drugs, drugs are metabolized and they're metabolized through the liver and through the kidneys.

There does not appear to be skeletal trauma or damage, but the cause of death and the manner of death is officially listed as undetermined.

But when you go to the evidence, the liver and the kidney, there is a positive drug result for something called beta phenylethylamine and phenylethylamine stimulants.

So we do know there is a stimulant, a central nervous system stimulant in the remains of this five-year-old child.

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