{"id":29296,"date":"2026-01-05T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=29296"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:02:08","slug":"florida-boy-johnathan-boley-4-found-dead-in-alabama-woods-after-disappearing-with-dog-on-new-years-eve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=29296","title":{"rendered":"Florida Boy Johnathan Boley, 4, Found Dead in Alabama Woods after Disappearing with Dog on New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities searching for a 4-year-old Florida boy who disappeared on New Year&#8217;s Eve near an Alabama home said Friday that days of intensive efforts across Walker County had entered a critical stage.Johnathan Everett Boley, affectionately called &#8220;John John,&#8221; was the subject of a multi-day search that drew local, state, and federal agencies as well as hundreds of volunteers, authorities said. What followed was a rapid response that began within minutes of Boley&#8217;s reported disappearance.<br>How the Search Began<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boley was last seen around 11:30 a.m. on New Year&#8217;s Eve near the 7000 block of Highway 195, between the Manchester and Thach communities in north Walker County, according to the Walker County Sheriff\u2019s Office.Deputies received a call reporting a missing child at approximately 12:28 p.m. that day. Investigators later learned that Boley had been outside playing with his brother near a fence line when he followed a black Labrador named Buck across it.&#8221;The indications were that (Johnathan) and his brother were outside playing around the fence line, with a dog,&#8221; Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith said during the search. &#8220;The brother said that the dog and his brother went across the fence line.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities searching for a 4-year-old Florida boy who disappeared on New Year&#8217;s Eve near an Alabama home said Friday that days of intensive efforts across Walker County&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":208,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29298,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296\/revisions\/29298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}