Note: The video in the player above is from a previous report on the disappearance of Elijah Vue.
Authorities in eastern Wisconsin were no closer to finding missing 3-year-old Elijah Vue, police revealed Friday, following additional searches in recent weeks.
The Two Rivers Police Department provided an update on search efforts for the toddler one day before the two-month mark of his disappearance. Air, sea and land searches have taken place over the past two weeks but have turned up no signs of the 3-year-old, according to a police Facebook post.
Several researches were conducted in water using solar technology, while others took place on area farms in collaboration with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Two Rivers police said the FBI conducted an aerial search Friday in several unspecified areas.
The search efforts come more than a month after a blanket belonging to the young child was found in an area between Manitowoc and Two Rivers, about 3.7 miles from where the young boy was seen for the last time.
Elijah disappeared from an apartment in Two Rivers on Feb. 20, where he was staying with his mother’s boyfriend, Jesse Vang. The boy’s mother, Katrina Baur, told police she left the 3-year-old with Vang several days earlier because she wanted him to teach her son “how to be a man,” and that she intended to pick him up on February 23. , according to a criminal complaint.
In the weeks that followed, police asked residents to scour surveillance videos in hopes of locating a vehicle of interest. The vehicle in question, a beige 1997 Nissan Altima four-door, had a license plate starting with “A” and ending with “O.”
Police, writing in a Facebook post, stressed that they were not interested in the current owner of the vehicle.
Around March 8, additional charges were filed against Baur when prosecutors revealed they had new evidence regarding Elijah’s final days before his disappearance.
Prosecutors previously told the court they had evidence that Baur left the 3-year-old unsupervised for at least an hour on Feb. 16 while she and her boyfriend, Vang, drove to other locations in Manitowoc, WLUK-TV reported. They also said they had evidence that Baur left a 6-year-old child unattended in a vehicle on Feb. 14 for about an hour in subzero temperatures, without the vehicle moving.
Baur, of Wisconsin Dellsin, in mid-March pleaded not guilty to several charges, including chronic child neglect, in connection with her son’s disappearance. Vang separately pleaded not guilty to a charge of chronic child neglect on April 16.
Neither Baur nor Vang have been charged in connection with the toddler’s disappearance.
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