Who Was the Convicted Felon Elijah Vue’s Mother Chose to Raise Her Three-Year-Old?
Jesse Vang had a felony conviction for harming a child when he was seventeen. He’d been charged with human trafficking. He’d done federal time for a drug conspiracy. And when he was released in 2022, he was placed on supervised release through 2025. By February 2024, Katrina Baur was dropping off her three-year-old son at Vang’s apartment in Two Rivers, Wisconsin for what she described as “disciplinary reasons.” The question that hangs over this case: did anyone around Jesse Vang know what his record looked like before Elijah Vue disappeared?
The criminal complaint paints a picture of coordinated cruelty between Baur and Vang. Text messages show two people discussing how to make a toddler “fear” them. A deleted photograph recovered from Baur’s phone shows Elijah blindfolded and bruised at 3:13 in the morning. Standing punishments lasting hours. Cold water. One diaper change a day. Vang called it “boot camp.” Baur called it teaching her son “how to be a man.” Elijah was three years old, still in diapers, still bottle-fed.
And the history between these two adults goes deeper than anyone initially realized. In 2015, Baur herself told police that Vang had trafficked her — that she was his “property.” Those charges were eventually dropped. Years later, she put her child in his care. Both now face felony charges in connection with Elijah’s death. Both have pleaded not guilty. Tony Brueski breaks down who Jesse Vang and Katrina Baur are, the “structure” Baur described between Vang and Elijah’s biological father, and what Two Rivers knew — and didn’t know — about the man living in that apartment on Mishicot Road.
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