Overview
- Detectives recovered the body from a shallow grave about 50cm deep after a six-hour excavation on Monday.
- Police describe the remains as those of an 18-month-old boy that may have been buried for more than a decade.
- Formal identification is pending after the coroner was notified and a postmortem was scheduled.
- Victoria Police say the Missing Persons Squad now leads the investigation following a reported tip from a relative, and current residents are not connected to the case.
- 7NEWS reports the child lived at the address with family in 2014 and was not reported missing before the family moved overseas, possibly to Albania.