• Police looking at surveillance tapes
• Disappearance makes national headlines
• Family looks to psychic for insight
• Reason an Amber Alert was not issued
• Fliers posted
• Vigil planned
• Parents of missing boy speak out
• LMPD to continue search
• Update
• Four-year-old missing

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The Latest:

It’s been five days and this is a mystery. With no sign and apparently few clues, police and Cesar Ivan Aguilar-Cano’s family are still searching and asking for any help they can get.

Ivan’s parents and other family members handed out more fliers today, thanking neighbors for their help.

Police say the family was questioned extensively again yesterday and was very cooperative. 

“There is no evidence, there’s noting to point to any wrongdoing by the family,” says Sergeant Jim Bland of the Louisville Metro Police.

Yet the questioning troubles the boy’s father, who says police accused him.

Cesar Aguilar:

“The police tell me I think you hurt the baby,” says Cesar Aguilar. “And I don’t hurt the baby.”

Aguilar lives in Lexington, which he says far enough away he couldn’t be involved in the disappearance.

“I want to tell the whole police. I didn’t hurt the baby. I want them to focus on my baby,” says Aguilar.

Police say they are doing just that—and have been around the clock since Friday.

“We’re going back and actually recovering some of our initial steps, retracing ourselves to make sure we haven’t missed anything,” says Sergeant Bland.

Did the boy wander off? Was he abducted? There’s no sign of him so far in more than 120 hours of security camera video from the area.

“That doesn’t change the investigation. It just doesn’t provide any more information for us,” says Sergeant Bland.

The family and police are holding out hope. It’s tough to stay optimistic, but we’re operating under that assumption,” says Bland.

Police say the holiday week could help them because people are out and about in different areas.  They encourage you to keep an eye out for Ivan.

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Previous coverage:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- There's more help today to find a 4-year-old boy who has been missing since Friday afternoon. A group called “ECHO” stepped forward to offer its services.

Cezar “Ivan” Aguilar-Cano was last seen by his mother around 3:15 p.m. Friday. He’s about three feet tall and weighs around 40 pounds and was last seen wearing a yellow tank top and grey shorts.

On Monday, volunteers posted fliers to assist in the search; now, ECHO is looking for even more volunteers to help redo what has essentially been done before.

“All of the experts recommend that after the initial canvass of the neighborhood that it’s very important to make a recanvass of the neighborhood,” says Lucy Lee of ECHO.

ECHO has been involved in searches like this before. The organization has about 150 volunteers.

Metro Police asked ECHO to get involved because they were getting inundated with calls from people looking to help in some way.

Web story produced by Jay Ditzer.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Louisville police are reviewing surveillance tapes to see if they caught an image of a 4-year-old boy missing since Friday.

Cezar Aguilar-Cano was last seen on Friday near the apartment complex his family lives in near Churchill Downs.

More than 200 officers, firefighters and neighbors searched for the boy over the weekend, posting signs in both English and Spanish asking for help in locating him.

An Amber Alert had not been issued because police do not believe the boy was abducted.

Cesar is 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. He was wearing a yellow tank top and gray shorts at the time of his disappearance.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Still no news in the search for a missing four-year-old boy.  The hunt for him continues and the community held vigils for his safe return Monday evening.  He’s been called a number of different names, from Cecil, to Cesar, to Evan, but according the Chaplin at the church where he and his family prayed, the boy goes by Ivan (pronounced E-von).

Cesar “Ivan” Aguilar-Cano has been missing since Friday when he disappeared from his apartment complex near Churchill Downs.  His disappearance is now making national headlines.  The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is stepping in to help.  They do not intend to take over the case, they would just like to be of assistance in any way that they can to bring the four-year-old back home to his family.

Even though the national attention is increasing, everyone involved is urging anyone with information to cal the anonymous tip line at (502) 574-LMPD. 

Web story produced by Joann Dickson 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Carla Grego was swinging a hammer instead of working the phones at the Kentucky Derby Museum.

Carla and some of co-workers at the museum, along with employees of Churchill Downs, hit the streets around noon.

Wearing tennis shoes and armed with maps, they set out to post 600 fliers featuring the face of 4-year-old Cesar Ivan Aguilar-Cano.

The boy was last seen Friday afternoon at a nearby apartment building, and his mom used to work on the backside of Churchill Downs.

“And I’m a grandmother. I have two grandsons and it just tears my heart out,” she says. “You don’t want people to stop looking. You just want them to keep going.”

So these volunteers fanned out in the neighborhoods around the track and businesses along Taylor Boulevard. And what wasn't nailed up was handed out, providing these volunteers with 600 more chances that Ivan will be found safe.

“You hope just maybe a person saw something somewhere that could help this family be reunited.”

Web story produced by Jay Ditzer.

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Earlier Coverage:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- It’s a baffling case for police: a 4-year-old boy seems to vanish into thin air with very few clues.

Cesar Ivan Aquilar-Cano was last seen Friday afternoon near his apartment close to Churchill Downs, where the boy's mother worked.

The chapel on Churchill Downs’s backside is open for people to come in and pray for the boy’s safe return, as well as for his mother, Rosa.

The chapel will host a vigil Monday evening at 7 p.m.

“The racing industry is a rather competitive industry, but when one of our workers suffers a loss or a disaster such as this, we all pull together,” says Pastor Ken Boehm. “That’s when the competitiveness leaves and the love and compassion takes over. And our folks just want Rosa and her family to know we are with her on this.”

Sources tell WHAS11 News that the family is consulting with a psychic as well.

Web story produced by Jay Ditzer.

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From The Associated Press:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Police have scaled back their search for a missing 4-year-old Louisville boy so they can focus on credible tips on the boy's whereabouts.

WHAS11

Cesar Aguilar-Cano, age 4, went missing from his home Friday evening, June 29, 2007

César Aguilar-Cano was last seen on Friday afternoon in front of the apartment complex his family lives in near Churchill Downs.  More than 200 officers, firefighters and neighbors searched for the boy over the weekend, posting signs in both English and Spanish asking for help in locating him.

Neighbors told police that Cesar was a curious boy who would sometimes run around the apartment complex unsupervised. It wasn't uncommon for the Cesar to go inside open apartment doors.

An Amber Alert has not been issued because police do not believe the boy was abducted.

  Cesar is 3-feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. He was wearing a yellow tank top and gray shorts at the time of his disappearance.