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milk carton he vanished in 1979. in 2001 declared legally dead, remains never found. tonight, though, just blocks away from his home in manhattan's soho district, police and fbi agents believe they're on to something. susan candiotti is there for us. what do you know? >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell me that they came here based on new and old information that led them to a man. a man who is now in his mid-70s. but at the satime he was a car carpenter and and befriended the boy and given him a dollar. we don't know the circumstances how this came about, in fact this informat...

areished in 1979. in 2001 declared legally dead, remains never found. tonight, though, just blocks away from his home in manhattan's soho district, police and fbi agents believe they're on to something. susan candiotti is there for us. she has the latest breaking developments. i understand you have something that tells us what led officials to that building. what do you know? >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell me that they came here based on new and old information that led them to a man, a man who is now in his mid-70s. but at the time he was a carpenter and and part-time han...

away from his home in manhattan's soho district, police and fbi agents believe they're on to something. susan candiotti is there for us. what do you know? >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell me that they came here based on new and old information that led them to a man. a man who is now in his mid-70s. but at the time he was a carpenter and and befriended the boy and given him a dollar. we don't know the circumstances how this came about, in fact this led authorize into a basement picking up a human scent, bringing in a team of investigators certaining the searching the basemen...

dead. his remains never found. tonight, though, just blocks away from his home in manhattan's sojo district, police and fbi agents believe they're on to something. susan canned yacht okand yaucan developments. you have some information on what led investigators to that building. what do you know? >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell me they came here based on new and old information that led them to a man, a man who is now in his mid-70s. but at the time he was a carpenter and part-time handyman. i'm told that he had contact with this little boy in his basement, had befriended h...

i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight we have breaking news. two of the secret service agents who lost their jobs in the fallout of the prostitution scandal have been identified. according to cbs news, david cheney was the supervisor who was allowed to retire. another supervisor, greg stokes, was, quote, removed with cause. he was recently listed as the supervisor of the canine training section of the secret service. that's what we were able to find out in our search just a few moments ago. now, a third employee who left the agency yesterday in connection with the scandal is still so fa...