How Did the Elijah Vue Investigation Go From a Missing Child Report to a Homicide Case?

On February 20, 2024, Jesse Vang called 911 and reported that three-year-old Elijah Vue had walked away from his Two Rivers, Wisconsin apartment. What started as a missing child case became a homicide investigation that uncovered surveillance footage, deleted photographs, coordinated text messages, DNA evidence inside a donated suitcase, and forensic findings of injuries that had been happening for weeks. This interview covers the full arc.

It starts with the people. Katrina Baur once told police Vang trafficked her. She later placed her son in his care and texted him to make the boy fear him. Vang called the arrangement “boot camp.” The criminal complaint describes standing punishments, cold water, one diaper change a day. Then the cover-up: Vang’s phone playing Netflix at the apartment while he drove a borrowed car through town, dropping a suitcase that tested positive for Elijah’s DNA. Baur coaching the story within sixty seconds of the 911 call. Deleted messages recovered by investigators.

Then seven months of searching. FBI, state agencies, community volunteers who never met this child. A birthday celebration in Appleton for a boy who was already gone. Remains found by a hunter on property that had been searched before. Healed fractures on his skull and face. Homicide. Now the legal fight: Vang faces life. Baur faces sixty years. Defense motions denied across the board. Both have pleaded not guilty. Tony Brueski and a reporter who’s covered every phase of this case lay it all out from the people to the investigation to the courtroom.

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