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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Cold and Missing.

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I'm Ali.

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So today we're on episode 96.

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Let's get into it.

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And just as a quick content warning at the top, this case does involve a young person.

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Today we are talking about the missing person case of Kevin Jay Ayotte.

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And this takes place in September of 1982 in Bemidji, Minnesota.

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But first, a little bit about Kevin.

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Kevin is only three years old in 1982.

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He's the youngest of three boys, and early on his mother, Joanne, realized that he was

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developing slower than his brothers and peers.

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Kevin was partially deaf and wasn't able to speak.

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In fact, he wasn't able to make a lot of noise at all.

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While Kevin loves following his older brothers around, the family also have a new puppy that

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loves to follow Kevin around.

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Flash is a black and white springer spaniel that is always at Kevin's side.

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Kevin, his brothers, and mother live just outside of the town of Bemidji.

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Their house sits in a wooded area.

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And now a timeline of events.

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On Thursday, September 30, it's around 430 in the afternoon, and Kevin's brothers are

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due back any minute from school.

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Joanne, Kevin's mom, puts his socks and shoes on so they can walk out to meet his

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brothers.

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Kevin had a habit of removing his socks and shoes at every opportunity.

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Kevin is wearing lace-up shoes, blue jeans, and a checkered shirt.

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He also has on a disposable diaper, which he also had a habit of taking off whenever

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it was wet.

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Once his brothers arrive, Kevin and his mother walk them from the bus stop back to the house.

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As the boys run inside, Kevin follows them.

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Joanne stays outside.

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She told local media that she was working on some windows.

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A few minutes later, police say it was about 15 minutes that Joanne was outside.

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She heads back in and finds that Kevin is missing.

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The boys had been playing upstairs in their mother's room.

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Also missing is Flash.

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Joanne and her sons begin looking for Kevin.

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He and Flash had wandered off into the woods before, but they had always found him quickly.

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At three years old, there is only so far that he can get.

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However, as the minutes pass, the panic increases.

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Joanne and her sons are searching for any sign of Kevin or Flash.

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Joanne is hoping to find a shoe, sock, or diaper of Kevin's to help lead her in the

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right direction.

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However, nothing is found.

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After two hours of searching, Joanne calls the police around 7 p.m.

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Immediately, the county sheriff starts to send every available officer to the home to

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help search.

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Around 50 officers search the surrounding woods, bogs, and near the Turtle River for

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the toddler and puppy.

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Officers are worried if they don't find Kevin tonight.

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While still early in the season, the temperature was expected to drop to around 40 degrees.

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That's around 4 degrees Celsius.

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The fact that Kevin is partially deaf and unable to communicate complicates the search.

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Even if rescuers are nearby, Kevin may not be able to call out to them.

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Police and families search through the evening for any sign of Flash or Kevin, but they don't

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find anything.

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No shoes that Kevin loved to take off or diaper that he would shed when wet.

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The next day, Friday, October 1st, the police are eager to start searching.

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Through word of mouth and announcements over the local radio station, by the afternoon,

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over 200 volunteers turned up to help search for Kevin.

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Helping the police were also the local forest rangers.

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Police launch planes with heat-seeking equipment to try to find Kevin or Flash.

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The search is difficult.

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Police have trouble keeping a straight line due to the thick brush.

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One woman even gets tripped up in barbed wire that was on the ground and she had to be treated

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at the local hospital.

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However, as the afternoon turns into evening, it starts to rain and temperatures are dropping

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again back down to 40 degrees.

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The Beltrami County Sheriff, Tom Tolman, calls the search off for the evening.

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The sheriff is frustrated that there hasn't been any sign of Kevin or his dog.

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Sheriff Tolman says, quote, we have no real fertile ground developing and I don't think

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Police are hesitant to call this a possible abduction.

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They point out that hunters get lost in these woods all the time.

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But when pressed further, the police did note that all of the lost hunters were found within

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When asked if the search would continue over the weekend, the sheriff said, quote, it depends.

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The next day, police do decide to search again and they're starting to question if maybe

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Kevin had been abducted and ask for help from the FBI and the Minnesota Crime Bureau.

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When officials are asked why they believe that now, they say, quote, it centers around

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the dog.

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The dog was with the young boy when he disappeared.

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The dog has not been found in the woods.

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The dog has not returned home, leading us to believe the dog may not be in the area,

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One thing that seems to be on everyone's mind is that if Kevin is in the woods, he

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likely would not be able to survive this long in cold temperatures and rain.

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Sheriff Tolman says, quote, the boy has no food, no comfort, no shelter, and we're not

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getting anywhere in the search, end quote.

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Police continue to search the woods over the next few days and the FBI do get involved

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to try to determine if Kevin had been abducted.

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But day after day, there is still no sign of Kevin.

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Finally on Tuesday, October 5th, Kevin has been missing for five days.

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After searching 9,000 acres on foot and having helicopters and planes search over 60 square

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miles, the ground search is called off for Kevin.

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However, later that evening in a field across the street from Kevin's house, flash is spotted.

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Kevin's family sees the dog first.

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Flash is in good condition.

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He was taken to a vet to be examined to make sure he's okay and to see if he can offer

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any clues as to where Kevin may be.

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The vet will also pump his stomach to see what the contents are.

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It appears that his last few meals had consisted of swamp grass.

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Other than that, his paws and coat were relatively clean.

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Officials said, quote, he was dry and fairly clean.

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His fur wasn't matted and it looks like he had plenty of water but perhaps had not been

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eating since Thursday night, end quote.

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While flash is getting checked out at the vet, the family and police search the field

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for any sign of Kevin until it gets dark.

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The next day, Wednesday, October 6th, the search is back on.

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Police put a tracker on flash's collar and launch a helicopter to keep an eye on him.

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Police take him back to the field to see if he will lead them to Kevin.

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They take him to different spots, hoping that he'll lead them to the little boy.

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However, each time they do it, investigators say that flash would make a few turns and

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then start running back to the Ayotte house.

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Please try this for two days and every time flash heads back home.

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The press asked police if flash found his way home so easily, why did it take him four

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days to appear?

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Sheriff Tomlin responds with, quote, until we can answer that question, our investigation

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will be relentless, end quote.

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By the end of Thursday, it's been a week now that Kevin has been missing.

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And after flash failed to lead investigators to him, Sheriff Tomlin told the local paper

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that Joanne said to him, quote, Tom, I'm satisfied.

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The boy is just not here, end quote.

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Police do seem certain that flash had not been in the area when they were searching

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the days after Kevin's disappearance, as there had been no sign of him.

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No one had heard any barking.

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There was no heat signature, nothing.

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The FBI are still helping out with the case, but at this point, Kevin's case is not classified

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as an abduction.

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In April of 1983, so Kevin has been missing for seven months, police conduct a search

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of a thickly wooded area just northwest of Bemidji.

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When asked if they're launching another search, police say no, but that they'll continue

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to do searches as the weather improves.

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The next time Kevin's case really hits the news again is in February of 1985.

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So it's been over two years that Kevin has been missing.

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And he is one of the first children featured as a missing child on a milk carton.

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Most people know that Johnny Gosh was one of the first children featured, but he was

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first of four.

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Kevin, Johnny, Richard Udon from Wyoming, and Jackie Boyer of California.

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Just a few months after the milk carton campaign launched, in April of 1985, Joanne sits down

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with the local newspaper for an interview.

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She said, quote, it's like this every day.

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I wonder where is he?

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How is he?

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Who has him?

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Is he all right?

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I don't know how anyone could do this to another human being.

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It's also at this time that it's revealed that back when Kevin first went missing in

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1982, while police were searching the woods, the FBI investigated Joanne's ex-husband

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as a possible suspect.

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However, he's quickly ruled out when he passed a polygraph and had a strong alibi.

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Joanne still believes that her son is alive out there.

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She says, quote, yes, I believe he's still alive.

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And I hope and pray that somebody's taking well care of him.

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I mean, how could he be dead?

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Whoever did this didn't hurt the dog.

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Why would they hurt my baby?

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One thing has become clear.

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The case is now labeled as a non-parental abduction with law enforcement.

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Over the years, it seems like Kevin's case goes cold.

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There's not much mention of him in the media.

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But in 2016, his case gets some attention again.

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A man in Michigan was accused of stealing Kevin's identity.

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He was using his name, birthdate, and social security number.

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Police and federal investigators pay the man a visit, and they're able to determine that

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it's not Kevin.

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But that is all we know about the disappearance of Kevin Ayotte.

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So if you know anything about Kevin's disappearance or his whereabouts today, please call the

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Beltrami County Sheriff's Office at 218-751-9111.

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So that is the case of Kevin Ayotte.

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I feel like this is one of those cases where, yes, it is a missing case, but it feels as

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if Kevin vanished as opposed to just missing.

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As I was listening to you, all I kept thinking was that it was like he disappeared out of

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thin air.

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That was my overwhelming response from the beginning.

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Yeah, there's a lot of mystery around what happened to Kevin, obviously.

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It seemed like a short period of time and that he should have been inside with his brothers.

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I would be curious to know what his older brothers told police at that time about those

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15 minutes, like what happened exactly.

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I would be curious to know what their perspective was and if they heard anything, did they see

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anything?

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What was their experience in this at that time?

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Yeah, I echo that same interest in just to know what was said of his siblings, of his

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brothers.

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And also, I'm curious to know the layout of the house.

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I'm curious to know where he was exactly and how it related to the back entrance of the

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house or the front, just how he got out.

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My mind instantly started building the structure of the house to figure that out.

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I totally agree.

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I would be interested to know the layout of the home as well.

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I just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone of the time, it being 1982.

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This was even before I was born.

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So I imagine, like it was for me, for my mother to step away, hang some laundry or work on

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something while my siblings were surrounding me.

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That's something that would have been very normal in my home and I think a lot of my

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neighboring homes at the time.

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The behavior of everything to me seems very normal of how a family would be acting in

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the middle of the day.

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Absolutely.

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And Joanne had walked to the bus stop to pick up her other children and walk them back.

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So she was like a very thoughtful mother and I'm sure she did think that her home was safe.

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They were inside, they were safe.

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I really was just left with a lot of questions as I was listening to you.

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So jumping to when his dog was found, I was kind of shocked that they found him at all

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and that he seemed fine.

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And that to me immediately said that that dog was being held somewhere and perhaps Kevin

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as well.

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Yeah, the dog returning raises a lot of questions for me.

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A big thing about what made the search for Kevin difficult was rain.

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It started raining the night he went missing.

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It rained the next day.

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It kept raining and when the dog returned he was clean, not really muddy from any reports

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that I read.

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Nobody mentioned that the dog was muddy, his fur was not matted.

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He was a clean dog.

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They said his paws were clean and if the dog had been out in the woods for days in the

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rain I would suspect to see mud, especially on this kind of dog.

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I looked it up and it's a long haired dog.

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Yeah, you and I have one fluffy dog and one day of rain and he steps out and he's a muddy

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mop so it would have been very noticeable if that dog had been battling the elements

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and to me as a dog parent he definitely was not.

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He was being taken care of at least somewhat.

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Yeah, the timing of the dog showing up is also suspect.

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Police don't find any signs of the dog in the woods and that's when they start kind

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of changing their story or their investigation track of maybe he was abducted because there

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was no sign of the dog.

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For them to announce that and then after that the dog is found seemingly well taken care

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of like he at least had some kind of shelter and maybe access to clean water.

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It definitely raises a lot of questions.

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My next question was I can't remember who it was.

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I think maybe stepdad or her ex-husband.

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I just wanted to know more if there was information why was he a suspect.

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Yes, this was Joanne's ex-husband and I do believe that it was Kevin's biological father.

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He is referred to as his father in a couple articles but I think that the FBI needed to

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rule him out since so many times with missing children you know it is somebody that they

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know and parental kidnappings are the most common so I think it's you know like when

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somebody goes missing you have to look at like the spouse first or the boyfriend or

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girlfriend or their partner.

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So I think it's just like one of those things it's like they need to rule the dad out before

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they can really move on to the next person.

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Those were really all of the questions I had.

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I was surprised that there was so much information that like they really did investigate and

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comb that area and I so deeply want to be on his mom's side and believe that he's still

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out there somewhere but to also think about that is that he's just a few years older than

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us.

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I mean it's a lifetime to continue to exist and to not be with your family like I so deeply

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want answers for her and her other sons too.

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I'm sure there is a huge feeling of consistent loss in their life that like destabilizes

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their family dynamic I just can't imagine and because of the time period I am hopeful

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that something will turn up somewhere or that someone knows something which is usually the

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case when information does come out later in cases like this.

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Absolutely.

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I really hope that his family gets answers that they're looking for and yeah like you

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said like it's a lifetime to be you know missing from your family and they deserve a homecoming.

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The whole family deserves a reunion so hopefully those answers will come out.

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Again if you know anything about the disappearance of Kevin or his whereabouts today please call

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the Beltrami County Sheriff.

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At 218-751-9111.

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There's also an age progress photo that shows what he would look like now so we'll also

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Couldn't have said it better myself.

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Thank you so much for listening to Cold and Missing.

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I'm your host Allie and I'm your co-host Eli.

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Have a good week and stay safe y'all.

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