harbor. body washed up on deer island which is a little to the east of there near boston's logan airport and a woman walking her dog on june 25th, her dog apparently had some interest in that bag. went over to look at it and the woman asked a person nearby to go with her to check out what was in the bag. they opened the bag and found what looked to be the limb of a small child, and of course they called the companies and that's how this all got started. now for almost 90 days the police and community had no idea who this child was. but as cliff van zandt was reporting in the last hour, because no one in this area had reported a child of that age missing, it became pretty clear to the authorities at least that they were looking at someone who was perhaps the caregiver of this child. the question again that a lot of people are going to be asking is, given this mother's history, having lost two of her kids to the state, why did the state not check more often on bella's condition given what happened to the older children. we've also learned that michael mccarthy, according to a friend