Ten-year-old Kodie was missing, and the search would end in heartbreak. On a July evening in Baraboo, Wisconsin, she had vanished without shoes or her phone, sending emergency crews and neighbors into an anxious wait. By the next day, a devastating discovery had ended hopes of bringing her home safely, leaving her family facing painful questions without clear answ… Continues…
Officers responded to an apartment complex in Baraboo on July 6, 2020, after Kodie’s mother reported the 10-year-old missing. Her mother also reported that Kodie had threatened to harm herself, adding urgency to the effort to locate her. Police, firefighters, and K-9 teams searched near the 1100 block of 12th Street before expanding their efforts. Through the evening and into the night, their priority was to find the child and bring her to safety.
On July 7, authorities confirmed that Kodie’s body had been found. That announcement brought the search to a devastating close, but the account provided does not establish how she died. The concerns reported before her disappearance should not be treated as a confirmed cause of death. Beyond those unanswered questions was an undeniable loss: a young life gone, a family grieving, and a community left confronting the outcome everyone had hoped the search would prevent.