Pictured cuddling his baby two days before 'killing her': Father arrested after newborn is found dead in a truck after he told her 'distraught' mother she had been kidnapped.
A father has been charged with murder after the body of his three-week-old daughter was found in the cab of a truck - 12 hours after she allegedly disappeared from his apartment .
Matthew Warner was arrested on Saturday morning after police discovered the body of his baby during a search in Newhall, Southern California.
The 30-year-old and his wife reported their little girl missing from the apartment complex on Friday prompting police to begin a search of the area.
According to KTLA 5, officers searched the parent's property first but were unable to locate the child.
More than 50 emergency service personnel helped search for the girl with the help of air units until her father showed them to a location near the body on Saturday morning.
The cause of death is still under investigation and authorities did not say who owned the truck.
Warner has been booked into jail while the girl's mother is in custody waiting to be interviewed by homicide detectives.
The child's grandmother, Nan Allison, told the LA Times her daughter had gone to work on Friday morning- she works as a daycare provider.
She said she heard some rustling and unusual noises coming from the couple's bedroom and her granddaughter's crying seemed weak, but she did not hear any noises from her granddaughter anymore.
She became concerned at 5 p.m., when she noticed the breast milk her daughter left in the refrigerator had not been used and she told the newspaper that Warner - who has been to prison - was acting unusually hyper.
She tried to phone her daughter, but she said Warner had disconnected the phone line so she went to a neighbor's house to call police.
She says Warner had left and police were unable to find him.
Allison told ABC7, that neighbors saw Warner leave their apartment complex with a bundle and he later her daughter that their baby was missing.
She said her relationship with Warner was rocky and that he once broke a window of their apartment when she and her daughter refused to let him inside.
Warner posted a picture of him holding the child on Facebook just two days before she wound up dead.
A Facebook page believed to belong to his wife and the girl's mother shows a sonogram as her profile picture.
When officials were still searching for the infant, they said she was last seen wearing 'Sesame Street' diapers and a blue and pink beanie.
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