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Skeletal remains discovered by a deer hunter in Wisconsin last weekend have been positively identified as Elijah Vue, a three-year-old who went missing from his mother’s boyfriend’s home in February. The remains — a skull and multiple bones — were found on private property in Two Rivers by “a person getting his land ready for the hunting season,” Two Rivers Police Chief Ben Meinnert said during a press conference Friday. The land was near the Girl Scout Camp Manitou property, and the body parts were found in a heavily wooded area with thick underbrush, Meinnert said. “This location is just...

TWO RIVERS, Wis. -- A blanket belonging to missing three-year-old Elijah Vue was found north of Manitowoc, the Two Rivers Police Department confirmed Monday. Police said the red and white-plaid blanket was found earlier in their investigation along Goodwin Road east of County Road B in Manitowoc County, roughly 3.7 miles from where Elijah Vue was reported missing. Elijah was last seen on Feb. 20 in the 3900 block of Mishicot Road in the City of Two Rivers. His mother, Katrina Baur, is charged with chronic neglect of a child as a party to a crime stemming from his disappearance....

A missing 3-year-old Wisconsin boy was sent to a torture boot camp 'to teach him to be a man' by his mother before he vanished, prosecutors claimed. Elijah Vue was last seen on February 20, at a home in Two Rivers where prosecutors said he was sent to stay with her boyfriend for 'disciplinary reasons' before he disappeared. During the boot camp, Vue is said to have been forced to take cold showers, stand for hours on end and endure a dirty diaper. He's also said to have been banned from playing with the only one of his toys at...