Missing Children from
Vernon County found Sunday
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| Kelly Otter |
The Vernon County
Sheriff’s Office has completed an investigation that involved two
children that went missing from Vernon County Thursday night. Missing
person’s reports were taken Friday morning by deputies and Nevada
Police of what appeared to be a planned run-a-way by the children and
their mother. One child was reported missing from Nevada, while the
other was reported missing from a rural county address.
Investigators
believed the children may have been taken by their mother Kelly
Otter, who had just been moved to Vernon County’s Most Wanted list
as a parole absconder and had multiple warrants for her arrest. An
endangered person’s alert was sent out all over Missouri in an
attempt to locate the children.
Deputies received
information Sunday afternoon that lead them to a house in Milo where
one of the children was seen through a window. Deputies made entry
into the house and located Kelly Otter and one of the children. The
second child ran out the back of the house and into some nearby woods
and was located several hours later.
The Sheriff said although
they had just moved Otter to the most wanted list, their main focus
was to locate the children. “We are glad their safe and we were
able to locate them before anyone got hurt” said Sheriff Jason
Mosher. Otter is currently being held in the Vernon County Jail.
Two other arrests were
made during the search for the children but were not related to that
incident. A deputy looking for the run-a-way juvenile stopped a
suspicious vehicle that turned out to be stolen. Both parties were
arrested and the vehicle was seized. Both names are being held
pending the filing of charges.
