Body of missing boy found in Randolph County after days-long search

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published September 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM EDT

Image is a picture of missing boy Liam King — Liam King

The search for a missing nonverbal 7-year-old in Asheboro has ended.

The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office says Liam King’s body was found Tuesday morning in a pond near where he went missing Sunday.

The sheriff’s office says he left the area on foot, and hundreds of first responders from multiple agencies as well as volunteers combed the area looking for him.

King’s death remains an active investigation.

Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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