WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- A body was found in an empty pool behind a house where a fire occurred in December in north suburban Waukegan on Monday, police said.
The body was found at around 2:30 p.m. in the 1300-block of North Jackson. Police opened a death investigation.
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Although the remains have not been identified, many area residents said they believe they may be of Lucio Cambrey, a young man missing since Christmas.
"In the bottom of my heart always I wish that he's alive," said Odalis Cambrey, the missing man's sister. "You just think about the last moment you saw him, and you're like, if he's really gone, I would have said so many things."
Christmas night, Lucio asked friends to drop him off near a BP gas station at the intersection of Jackson and Grand, police and family said.
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"The second someone said he was missing and no one knew where he was and he wasn't calling anyone, that's when I knew something was wrong," Cambrey said.
Cambrey and her friends spent days searching for Lucio, but never found him.