UPDATE: Police say body of missing 10-year-old girl found
[Baraboo Police Department]
UPDATE: Wisconsin police said the body of a missing 10-year-old has been found.
The Baraboo Police Department confirmed the update Tuesday in a Facebook post, stating additional information is forthcoming.
An earlier version of this report can be found below:
A 10-year-old girl has been missing in Wisconsin since Monday, according to the Baraboo Police Department.
Police said, at about 5:40 p.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to apartments located on the 1100 block of 12th Street on a report of a missing juvenile.
The mother of the missing child confirmed the girl’s identity as Kodie B. Dutcher, her 10-year-old daughter.
Kodie is described as 4 feet 9 inches tall, about 110 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Information learned through the initial search of the residence suggested the girl had threatened self-harm.
Officers immediately searched the area around the residence. Additional assistance from the Baraboo Fire Department and Wisconsin Dells K-9 expanded the search area on foot. Drone teams from Sauk County Sheriff’s Office and Middleton Fire Department responded to further expand the areas being searched.
The department says they are now concentrating their efforts on a secondary search of the area near the residence with volunteers on foot. For anyone wanting to help, please go to the Baraboo Civic Center, located at 124 Second Street in Baraboo.