The numerous search crews, that were deployed to find the dead bodies of the children recently thrown off the Dauphin Island Bridge 6 days ago by their father, have reportedly found a second body, the sheriff said.

The announcement was made during a press conference this morning in Bayou la Batre.

The second corpse was found on Sunday by a search and rescue crew in the region where the first body was discovered by a duck hunter. The two bodies were found in a muddy region about five miles west of the bridge, said Mobile County sheriff's Sgt. Jerry Taylor.

The search for the four dead children - aged between a few months and 3 years - started Tuesday near the mouth of Mobile. Their father, Lam Luong, acknowledged that he threw them in the water in that area.

"The inevitable nightmare we have feared has now been confirmed," Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said Saturday. "We believe, certainly now, that the father of these children threw these children off the Dauphin Island bridge."

County Sheriff Cochran said the hopes of finding the rest of the bodies are higher after the search crew used sonar technology and saw images Friday that looked like three bodies.

"Currents were so strong divers were unable to get to the location," Cochran said. Divers re-entered the water Saturday beneath blue skies.

The 37-year-old father who killed his children is detained without bond on four counts of capital murder. Luong could be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole for his action.

According to District Attorney John Tyson Jr, Luong confessed to throwing his four children (Ryan Phan, 3, Hannah Luong, 2, Lindsey Luong, 1, and Danny Luong, 4 months) off a bridge after he had an argument with his wife.

Luong later changed his mind and claimed that his children were kidnapped by two Asian women. However, he was by a witness on the bridge with the children and by another one as he left the scene of the crime without the infants, said Cochran.