In California a man suspected of murdering his 5-year-old son because of a "tumultuous divorce," reported investigators on Monday, 3 days after the 35-year-old Araras Andresen Sr. was arrested and charged with murder, although his missing son was found dead.

On Friday, Andresen was arrested on murder charges, and this week he will be prosecuted in Los Angeles, where he faces 25 years to life in prison if he's convicted. According to local media, Andrussian remains in custody and neither he nor his counsel commented on this on Monday.

His son, Araras Andresen Jr., missing since as last saw him at Disneyland with his father in April. "My heart is broken," said Ana Estevez, the missing child's mother, in her statement, read by the Deputy Sheriff of the County of Los Angeles at a press conference on Monday. "I will miss my son every second of every day for the rest of my life."

The last time the boy was seen at Disneyland with his father after midnight on April 21. A few hours later the father was found unconscious in the Park South Pasadena without the son, saying he did not remember what happened.

According to authorities, after questioning by the police Andressen spent 47 days in Las Vegas. While he was there, he shaved his beard, which grew up and dyed her hair. "He has participated in activities and demonstrated manners that would not be a grieving parent" - said to journalists on Monday Lieutenant Joe Mendoza of the Sheriff's Department County of Los Angeles.

Officials at the press conference did not elaborate on the divorce of the boy's parents.
According to the district attorney of the County of Los Angeles Jackie Lacey, indirect evidence for Andreassian, was enough to arrest him on murder charges, although investigators still have not found his son.
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