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Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news. Now. I'm Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 1: The search is over.

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Speaker 2: The remains found by the hunter and recovered by law

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Speaker 2: enforcement were taken to the Wisconsin Crime Lab for DNA

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Speaker 2: testing to identify the person. It is with a heavy

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Speaker 2: heart that I announced to you today those remains were

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Speaker 2: identified as Elijah vouv.

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Speaker 1: Two Rivers Police Chief Ben Minor describes how the three

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Speaker 1: year old's body was discovered.

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Speaker 2: The remains were found on private property by a person

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Speaker 2: getting his land ready for the hunting season, a thick

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Speaker 2: wooded area with heavy underbrush just to the north of Manitou.

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Speaker 2: This location is just over three miles northwest of where

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Speaker 2: he originally was reported missing. This area had been searched

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Speaker 2: several times, as had been reported by law enforcement searches,

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Speaker 2: by private searches by the landowner, by air, and with

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Speaker 2: various search and rescue teams.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately, a forensic anthropologist with the Wisconsin State Crime LAFE

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Speaker 1: Laboratories confirms the skull and bones as human remains belonging

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Speaker 1: to Elijah Vue. The remains found just three miles from

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Speaker 1: where the boy went missing and near a home where

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Speaker 1: mom Katrina Bauer used to live Here's Crime Onlines holding Zapple.

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Speaker 3: Elijah VU's grandmother confirms that her daughter, Katrina Bauer, lived

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Speaker 3: in the house across the street from the woods where

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Speaker 3: skeletal remains have been found in Manitowa County. There is

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Speaker 3: even a photo of Katrina Bauer holding Elijah VU, with

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Speaker 3: the blue railing and current front steps in the photo

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Speaker 3: matching the current property.

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Speaker 1: Crime Onlines. Nicole Parton tells us how the search for

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Speaker 1: Elijah began.

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Speaker 4: February twenty ten, fifty nine am, Jesse Vain calls nine

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Speaker 4: to one one to report the three year old boy

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Speaker 4: he cares for is missing. Vain says he fell asleep

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Speaker 4: caring for Elijah Vu at eight am, and when he

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Speaker 4: woke up at just before eleven am, Elijah was gone.

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Speaker 4: He is last seen wearing gray sweatpants, a long sleeved

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Speaker 4: dark colored shirt, and red and green dinosaur slip on shoes.

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Speaker 1: Local and regional groups use boats to search rivers and streams,

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Speaker 1: while air searches are conducted with drones. Canine units are

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Speaker 1: brought in for searches on land. Until now, the only

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Speaker 1: autumn recovered was a plaid blanket. View was last seen

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Speaker 1: with Katrina Bauer and her boyfriend Jesse Vang are now

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Speaker 1: behind bars charged with filliny child neglect. Here's Crime Online

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Speaker 1: Stave mack.

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Speaker 5: Elijah's mother is thirty one year old Katrina Bauer, but

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Speaker 5: she wasn't watching her son at the time he went missing.

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Speaker 5: Bauer's boyfriend, thirty nine year old jesse Vang, has been

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Speaker 5: taking care of the boy. Bauer says she's letting jesse

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Speaker 5: Vang discipline Elijah Vu, helping to teach him to be

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Speaker 5: a man. The three year old is not potty trained

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Speaker 5: and still takes a bottle, but Vang puts him in

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Speaker 5: time out when he disobeys an order. Jesse Vang explains

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Speaker 5: time out as a time where the three year old

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Speaker 5: must stand in one place and repeat I'm sorry, mommy,

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Speaker 5: or pray for two or three hours at a time.

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Speaker 1: For the latest on the investigation, tune into Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace six and nine pm Eastern on Doctor

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Speaker 1: Phill's Merritt Street Media. Or tune into the Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace podcast on your favorite podcasting app. More

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. A woman in Arizona

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Speaker 1: has been missing for over two decades and her family

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Speaker 1: is still sinking answers. Authorities believe foul play may have

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Speaker 1: been involved in the disappearance of Laverda Cerell. She was

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Speaker 1: forty four years old at the time. Last seen July

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Speaker 1: fourth of two thousand and two. Her husband told investigators

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Speaker 1: he dropped her off in an office in Fort Defiance, Arizona,

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Speaker 1: late that night, but she never returned home. A family

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Speaker 1: member reported her missing to the Navajo Police Department on

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Speaker 1: July eighth. The FBI has since taken over the investigation,

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Speaker 1: offering a ten thousand dollars reward for information leading to

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Speaker 1: an arrest and conviction. Sorell was in the process of

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Speaker 1: separating from her husband and had told her family she

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Speaker 1: wanted a divorce. She had also been seeing another man.

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Speaker 1: Her sister, Billina Guy, recalls speaking to her on the

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Speaker 1: day she disappeared. Talking to Kao, Guy says, quote, we

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Speaker 1: talked every day. I knew something was wrong when she

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Speaker 1: didn't come home or go to work. The FBI has

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Speaker 1: changed the case from a missing person to a homicide investigation,

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Speaker 1: but no suspects have been named. Crell's family continues to

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Speaker 1: push for answers. Guy says, quote, I want justice from

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Speaker 1: my sister. We won't stop until we know what happened.

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Speaker 1: Laverda Cerel would be sixty six today. She is Native

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Speaker 1: American with black hair and brown eyes, five foot one,

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Speaker 1: one hundred ten pounds when she was last seen. She

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Speaker 1: wears glasses. Despite the years that have passed, Cirell's family

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Speaker 1: remains determined to find closure. Her daughter, Tiffany Cerel, was

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Speaker 1: only fourteen when her mother disappeared and remembers her as

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Speaker 1: a loving, gentle person. Quote, she was the glue that

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Speaker 1: held our family together. We still feel her absence to

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Speaker 1: this day. The family has faced many frustrations in the investigation,

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Speaker 1: especially with jurisdictional issues between agencies, but they continue to

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Speaker 1: advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women. If you know

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Speaker 1: anything about the disappearance of Tiffany Cerel, call eight hundred

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Speaker 1: call FBI, or go to tips dot FBI dot com.

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