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| Scott Kleeschulte |
St. Charles police search home in missing child case from 1988
BY SUSAN WEICH • sweich@post-dispatch.com > 636-255-7207 STLtoday.com | Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:00 am
They got a search warrant. They used cadaver dogs. But they came up empty-handed.
A review of the case files in the disappearance of 9-year-old Scott Kleeschulte had given St. Charles police investigators a glimmer of hope about solving the 23-year-old mystery.
Their actions are a snapshot of the way these cases are handled. They get handed down from detective to detective. They aren't allowed to go cold.
St. Charles Police Lt. Mike Akers declined to say specifically what information spurred the most recent search, which happened at the end of November at a home in Kleeschulte's neighborhood. Akers would say only that it had come from a comment in an old interview.
"We feel now that maybe this person wasn't very reliable or wasn't giving us good information," he said.
Neighbors said authorities drilled holes through the concrete in the garage and other areas around the home in the 3400 block of Leverenz Drive. Akers said the dogs did not detect anything.
Kleeschulte has been missing since June 8, 1988. He was last seen not far from his home walking near a wooded area known as "The Trails" just before a fierce thunderstorm swept through the area. (more...)
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