DISTURBING details have emerged about the family of missing seven-month-old Emmanuel Haro as the search for him nears a week long.
The baby's uncle was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend and trying to cover it up in 2017, according to local reports.
Police launched the search for Emmanuel after his parents, Rebecca and Jake Haro, said he was kidnapped from a parking lot in Yucaipa, California, 72 miles east of Los Angeles, on August 14.
Rebecca claimed that a stranger knocked her unconscious, leaving her with a black eye, and took the baby from her.
In the days following the alleged kidnapping, speculation began to grow after cops revealed Rebecca's story had "inconsistencies" and the parents weren't cooperating with investigators.
Then it was revealed that Jake had previously pleaded guilty to willful child cruelty after his baby daughter was hospitalized with broken bones in 2018.
Now, unsettling information has come to light about Rebecca's family, according to The CW affiliate KTLA.
Rebecca's brother, James Beushausen, is serving 50 years to life in prison for fatally shooting his girlfriend, Jaylynn Amanda Keith, in their apartment and trying to stage it as a suicide, prosecutors said.
On March 15, 2017, 27-year-old Keith was found with a single gunshot wound to the center of her forehead in the bathtub of the apartment she shared with Beushausen.
When questioned by investigators, Beushausen claimed he had been sleeping when his girlfriend shot herself in the bathroom, according to the Desert Sun.
Beushausen, 35 at the time, said he woke up to a "popping" sound before he found Keith dead in the bathtub.
But during the trial, prosecutors described Beushausen as a "gun enthusiast" who would have recognized the sound of a gunshot, which helped to unravel his entire case.
It also came out in the trial that Beushausen struggled with alcoholism and was in and out of rehab, which was a major cause of arguments for the couple in their five-year relationship.
A day before she was murdered, Keith told her family she was going to leave Beushausen.
Investigators alleged that Beushausen knocked Keith out, put her in the bathtub, and shot her in the head while shielding himself from blood splatter with the shower curtain.
In October 2018, he was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for Keith's murder.
No arrests have been made since Emmanuel disappeared.
His parents have insisted that they're innocent and begged the public for any information on their son's whereabouts.
After police said Jake and Rebecca were uncooperative, Jake fired back at the claims through his attorney, Vincent Hughes, who is representing him on a different case.
"I don't know where that statement that they stopped cooperating came from," Hughes said on NewsNation's Banfield on Tuesday.
He said both Jake and Rebecca voluntarily turned over their electronic devices and passwords to investigators.
San Bernardino police said they are unable to rule out foul play in Emmanuel's disappearance.
Cadaver dogs were seen combing the Haros' home after the baby's disappearance.