The following content contains discussions of child injury and death,

including frank discussions and displays of emotion surrounding that loss.

Listener discretion is advised.

A criminal investigation is underway into the death of an area toddler.

Police say the child was discovered with injuries on October 27th and died in a London hospital.

Do you know what a Russian nesting doll is? Those are the sets of wooden dolls. They're usually

beautifully painted. Each one one smaller than the other.

Take the top off one.

There's another one inside.

Take the top off the next one.

There's another doll.

Take the top off...

You get the idea.

They are also called Matrioyska, or Motherhood dolls, and they date back to the late

1800s.

That's really what this story I'm about to tell you is.

A Russian nesting doll.

It's a story of layers and complexities, and beautiful things and sad things and really quite awful things.

At the center, well, in the tradition of the nesting doll,

that's where the secret is, that's where we find the truth,

or get as close to the truth as we can.

For almost six years now, I've been trying to find out what happened to a young boy named

...