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Nearly seven weeks after Wisconsin boy Elijah Vue disappeared, investigators have turned their sights to the junkyard where Steven Avery dumped a woman’s body in 2005, inspiring Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” .
The 3-year-old was last seen in late February. His mother, Katrina Baur, and her boyfriend, Jesse Vang, face felony charges of child neglect as part of a crime in his disappearance.
Baur, 31, left his son to stay with Vang for several weeks because he wanted to teach the boy “how to be a man,” according to a criminal complaint.
Vang, who regularly subjected the boy to physical punishment, according to the complaint, reported the boy missing from his Two Rivers home on Feb. 20 and told police that Elijah was gone after he woke up from a nap. three hours.
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There is no direct connection to the disappearance of Vue and the Avery junkyard, where freelance photographer Teresa Halbach’s remains were left, but the property is less than nine miles from the Two Rivers home where the boy was seen by last time. WSAU reported.
“There is always that dark side that makes you fear the worst,” search engine Nicole Rivera told the outlet. “I pray that he is well and alive, and I hope that he is found alive.”
The reward for information leading to the boy’s recovery amounts to $65,000 between the Two Rivers Police Department, the FBI and Manitowoc County Crime Stoppers, the outlet reported.
Elijah is Hmong and White with dark blonde hair and brown eyes. He is 3 feet tall and has a birthmark on his left knee. He was last seen wearing gray pants, a dark long-sleeved shirt, and red and green dinosaur slip-on shoes. Investigators found one of those shoes near Vang’s apartment, among other evidence, CrimeOnline reported.
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Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, were convicted of first-degree intentional homicide and mutilation of a corpse for Halbach’s murder after his body was discovered in Avery’s junkyard, according to County Court records. Manitowoc.
Dassey was also convicted of second-degree sexual assault, but a federal judge overturned his conviction on the grounds that his confession had been coerced, The Associated Press reported.
Prior to his conviction in 2005, Avery was wrongly convicted of attempted murder and sexual assault, and released after 18 years in prison.
Avery filed a $36 million lawsuit against Manitowoc County, its former sheriff and its former district attorney. He was arrested for Halbach’s murder while the civil suit was still pending. The 2007 Avery and Dassey trials and their associated issues are the subject of the 2015 Netflix documentary series.
Avery is currently serving a life sentence at Fox Lake Correctional Institution, according to Wisconsin inmate records.
However, Kathleen Zellner, Avery’s defense attorney, has said new evidence shows Dassey acted alone.
“Two new witnesses have emerged in Mr. Avery’s case with compelling new evidence about a murder mystery that has intrigued a worldwide audience,” Zellner wrote in a motion for post-conviction relief filed two years ago in Manitowoc County Courthouse in Wisconsin. “The rush to judgment and tunnel vision that led to Mr. Avery’s arrest, prosecution and conviction are exposed by these new witnesses who provide new, indisputable evidence directly linking Bobby Dassey… to Teresa’s murder Halbach and the incrimination of Mr. Avery.”
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In 2005, investigators found Halbach’s DNA in a burn pit, blood samples matching Halbach and Avery in a vehicle at their salvage yard, and a bullet with Halbach’s DNA in Avery’s garage, Fox previously reported. NewsDigital. Avery has said her blood was planted at the scene, collected after a cut on her finger dripped into the bathroom sink.
Two weeks ago, a special prosecutor responded to Avery’s attorney’s latest request for touch DNA testing on evidence in his case.
Special prosecutor Norman Gahn wrote in a letter to Judge Anthony Lambrecht that jurisdiction over the case rests with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and argued that circuit court judges did not have jurisdiction to make a decision. WBAY reported.
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