Elijah Vue, Katrina Baur, and Jesse Vang (Two Rivers Police Department).
A Wisconsin woman and her boyfriend are charged in the death of her toddler son who went missing for months. Authorities announced charges during a press conference on Thursday. Elijah Vue, who disappeared at age 3 in February from the city of Two Rivers, was recently found dead by a deer hunter.
Prosecutors say his mother’s boyfriend, Jesse Vang, 39, killed him. Authorities do believe the child died around the time that the man reported him missing. They are not quite sure how he passed away, however. The medical examiner’s office in Fond du Lac County ruled that Elijah died from homicide by unspecified means, according to Green Bay CBS affiliate WFRV. Vang is charged with physical abuse of a child (repeated acts causing death), hiding a corpse and resisting or obstructing an officer, online records show.
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As previously claimed, authorities said that the mother, Katrina B. Baur, 31, put Elijah in Vang’s home for disciplinary purposes. Now they say that she told Vang to keep quiet while police questioned him about the missing child.
“Don’t say too much” or “Attorney K,” she allegedly messaged him, according to WFRV.
She claimed to authorities that she had worried that investigators were attempting to entrap Vang for drinking and taking medication while watching the child, they wrote.
