Authorities in Minnesota have focused their search for a missing 6-year-old on a park along the Mississippi River, where his mother was discovered dead following an apparent taking of her own life over the weekend.
According to Northfield Police Chief Mark Elliott, Elle Ragin has been missing since Sunday, June 19. Officers discovered her mother, 39-year-old Lisa Wade, dead in the family's Maple Brook Court house and cautioned that the deceased woman may have been implicated in the child's disappearance. On Tuesday, police stated they had no additional prospective suspects.
6-Year-Old Girl Went Missing After Mom's Death
Police monitored her mother's travels using a search warrant for her mobile information. "Lisa Wade drove from her home in Northfield to Mississippi River Park in Stearns County around noon on June 21," he said.
Her phone had shut off at 3 pm that day and had not been turned back on. According to Elliott, Wade made contact with a maintenance worker and a Stearns County deputy in the park on June 23. She was alone at the time and allegedly informed the officer that she had misplaced her phone and the keys to her black Honda CRV while trekking before requesting help.
Wade seemed disturbed when she called her family members the week of June 25, he said. Between June 23 and July 2, she was seen on security camera many times, each time without her daughter.
Police said they searched the house and surrounding area by land and air but found nothing. They then scoured the park and areas of the Mississippi River and discovered Wade and her smartphones.
Elliott stated on Tuesday that authorities discovered Ragin was last seen on June 19. Wade traveled to Mississippi River County Park near Rice in Stearns County two days later, he claimed, where they located mobile phones belonging to both Elle and her mother, according to KMSTP. She shut off her phone at 3 pm and never put it back on again.
Investigators say Wade called a deputy at the scene around 9 am two days later, informing him she had misplaced her phone and keys and was locked out of her car. The deputy arranged for Wade to be towed to a shop so he could obtain new tires, Fox News reported.
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Public Urged To Contact Authorities For More Info
According to WCCO reporter Kirsten Mitchell, a police chopper was spotted circling a cornfield near the missing girl's house on Sunday night. Authorities provided an update Sunday evening, sharing a fresh photo of the mother and daughter but providing no other information on the hunt for Elle.
Ragin has brown eyes and brown curly hair. She stands 3'6" tall and weighs 45 pounds. Authorities are requesting anybody who has had contact with Wade in the previous two weeks or who knows where Ragin is to call the Northfield Police Department at 507-645-4477.
The search for Elle Ragin is taking place fewer than 50 miles from where another Minnesota mother, Molly Cheng, is thought to have murdered herself and her three children on Friday near Lake Vadnais, Minnesota.
Their killings occurred just hours after Cheng's spouse, only known as Kos, committed suicide in his bedroom with a gunshot wound. The family belonged to Minnesota's Hmong community. With almost 66,000 Hmong residents, the Twin Cities area has the highest concentration of Hmong people in the United States.
Cheng was a Bangkok, Thailand-based beautician and tattoo artist. More information regarding what precipitated the horrific taking of their own life and subsequent triple murder death has not been revealed. If you need help, call the Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 or text 741741, as per Daily Mail.
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