ID MICHAEL VAUGHAN: Missing from Fruitland, ID - 27 July 2021 - Age 5 *ARREST*

Search continues for missing and endangered 5-year-old in Fruitland, Idaho

Michael Vaughan was last seen near SW 9th Street and S. Arizona Ave. in Fruitland on Tuesday evening. Crews and neighbors were out all day looking for the boy.

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Search continues for missing and endangered 5-year-old in Fruitland, Idaho​

Michael Vaughn was last seen near SW 9th Street and S. Arizona Ave. in Fruitland on Tuesday evening. Crews and neighbors were out all day looking for the boy.

The search for a missing 5-year-old-year-old boy intensified Wednesday as it entered its second day.

Michael Vaughn was last seen near SW 9th Street and S. Arizona Avenue in Fruitland around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The Fruitland Police Department said Michael is considered missing and endangered.

Michael is about three feet, seven-inches tall and weighs 50 pounds. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. He answers to the nickname "Monkey."

Michael was wearing a light blue shirt with a Minecraft picture on it, dark blue boxer briefs and sandals.

Idaho Mountain Rescue brought in highly-trained and rescue personnel to assist in the search.

Crews from multiple agencies searched the area near Michael's home by ground and air by drone and helicopter. They also went door to door, talking with neighbors.

Right next to the boy's home is a field where crews spent much of the day searching for him.

Neighbors say they learned about his disappearance about an hour after he was reported missing. They say Michael is a happy kid who lives with his parents and grandfather.

Cynthia Walker was walking her dog as the search was happening.

"At five years old, I don't know that he would wander too far without one us seeing him by now," she said. "There are volunteers, many, many volunteers out searching, scanning the fields and we just want to have Michael back, we just want him home safe."





MEDIA - MICHAEL VAUGHN: Missing from Fruitland, ID since 27 July 2021 - Age 5

 

[GrandmaBear]

Now, that makes sense.

Yeah, I think so too lol it just popped into my head and I thought bingo, now that fits...

 

[Regina]

Cadaver dogs specifically "hit" on human remains. Not animal remains. Not anything else. Five separate dogs found the scent of human remains on that property. Not finding a body does not support that there was never a body there. It only supports that there was not a body there when it was searched.
I may question the credibility of the information IF there hadn't been 5 separate dog hits AND anomalous ground-penetrating radar results AND areas that had been dug and re-filled. In the exact area that he said there would be.
False confession? WHY? To accuse the others in the household? Well, that really backfired then, since he's the only one facing charges at the moment. Also, confessing to his mom, writing an apology note to Michael's family, and then trying to kill himself does not support "false confession".
Not trying to argue, I just really don't understand.

I understand what cadaver dogs are trained to do. I didn't know how many it was but five strikes me as odd, that is, why so many?
Anyway, I think it's just that I'm not as confident as you are in the reliability of their indications, not enough to conclude for a fact that human remains had been there.
Re radar, I recall they said they used that but I don't remember why I wasn't impressed, just that I wasn't, lol.
Re why false, to me, the most important aspect is there's no corroborative evidence.

 

[Regina]

The affidavit states that a witness saw "Michael" on a "Big Wheel". First, unless the witness knew Michael, she can't positively identify him.
Second, a Big Wheel and a trike are distinctly different riding toys, so which was it?

 

[Regina]

Yeah, I think so too lol it just popped into my head and I thought bingo, now that fits...

All along, I've doubted that Michael wandered from his own street and info from a neighbor is that he was running down the street to where other kids live in the next block and as I recall, info is that the scent dog lost the trail in that direction and somewhere at or near the end of the street.

 

[GrandmaBear]

The affidavit states that a witness saw "Michael" on a "Big Wheel". First, unless the witness knew Michael, she can't positively identify him.
Second, a Big Wheel and a trike are distinctly different riding toys, so which was it?

I have heard of a Big Wheel being called a trike and vice versa many times. It is a 3 wheeled riding toy, both have 3 wheels. They also call a 3 wheeled motorcycle a trike. To me, that means nothing at all as they aren't distinctly different. I know what you mean though as I call one a Big Wheel and the other a trike but not all do.

My AZ relatives always called a 4 wheeler a bike. ??? Why I don't know lol. We call them 4 wheelers. Some call them ATVs (which they are).

Anyhow, BIg Wheel or trike means little to me as I've heard it done on many an occasion.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I understand what cadaver dogs are trained to do. I didn't know how many it was but five strikes me as odd, that is, why so many?
Anyway, I think it's just that I'm not as confident as you are in the reliability of their indications, not enough to conclude for a fact that human remains had been there.
Re radar, I recall they said they used that but I don't remember why I wasn't impressed, just that I wasn't, lol.
Re why false, to me, the most important aspect is there's no corroborative evidence.

I think 5 because of the very reason of evidence and ensuring not just one dog hit and that they can back it up when a defense tries to tear the dog evidence apart but saying FIVE dogs struck on it.

In reading the affidavit, it clearly is a circumstantial case but a strong one. The dog evidence imo is very strong and adding all else in, it is plenty. Honestly it reminds me of others like Adelson, that was almost all circumstantial.

I keep thinking they need a prosecutor like Georgia to tie it all together well and bring it home to the jury

 

[GrandmaBear]

All along, I've doubted that Michael wandered from his own street and info from a neighbor is that he was running down the street to where other kids live in the next block and as I recall, info is that the scent dog lost the trail in that direction and somewhere at or near the end of the street.

I never believed some of the early accounts and I recall doubting some of them (I'd have to look back).

They never give everything in the first affidavit or even the probable cause hearing generally. I keep wondering how the splash pad thing ties in... I don't know, do you? Thinking that will become clear in time.

Also I don't believe all he said. I don't think the confession was coerced but I think he is lying about some details... It makes little sense to me just for one example they'd take Michael to the mother's but then bring him all the way back to town to bury him... I also think he did some of the things he claimed others did. I don't know that I believe it went down the way he said or that Michael was maybe not already dead when stuffed into the duffel. I also don't know that I believe they planned on selling him...

That doesn't make me doubt his guilt though one bit, it just makes him a liar like many a criminal and one who minimizes his own involvement where he can.

 

[Regina]

I have heard of a Big Wheel being called a trike and vice versa many times. It is a 3 wheeled riding toy, both have 3 wheels. They also call a 3 wheeled motorcycle a trike. To me, that means nothing at all as they aren't distinctly different. I know what you mean though as I call one a Big Wheel and the other a trike but not all do.

My AZ relatives always called a 4 wheeler a bike. ??? Why I don't know lol. We call them 4 wheelers. Some call them ATVs (which they are).

Anyhow, BIg Wheel or trike means little to me as I've heard it done on many an occasion.

It's that it isn't clear to me that the "Big Wheel-witness" identified the same riding toy that was initially found by another witness.

 

[GrandmaBear]

It's that it isn't clear to me that the "Big Wheel-witness" identified the same riding toy that was initially found by another witness.

And hopefully that will be clarified in trial whether by the P or the D.

 

[Regina]

I never believed some of the early accounts and I recall doubting some of them (I'd have to look back).

They never give everything in the first affidavit or even the probable cause hearing generally. I keep wondering how the splash pad thing ties in... I don't know, do you? Thinking that will become clear in time.

Also I don't believe all he said. I don't think the confession was coerced but I think he is lying about some details... It makes little sense to me just for one example they'd take Michael to the mother's but then bring him all the way back to town to bury him... I also think he did some of the things he claimed others did. I don't know that I believe it went down the way he said or that Michael was maybe not already dead when stuffed into the duffel. I also don't know that I believe they planned on selling him...

That doesn't make me doubt his guilt though one bit, it just makes him a liar like many a criminal and one who minimizes his own involvement where he can.

No, like you, I have yet to see that the splash pad is of any relevance.

 

[GrandmaBear]

No, like you, I have yet to see that the splash pad is of any relevance.

wonder if it was just to show they were looking for children, children would be at a splash pad. one possibility anyhow.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Like you all, I don't know if the "big wheel" and the "tricycle" are the same thing or what Michael was riding. But here is a pink, big wheel trike that could be described as either.



ETA: Per the PCA, it was actually a Big Flyer that was found, not Big Wheel like the witness said. But they look similar / could easily be mistaken. Just a branding thing.

 

[Guess Who]

I understand what cadaver dogs are trained to do. I didn't know how many it was but five strikes me as odd, that is, why so many?
Anyway, I think it's just that I'm not as confident as you are in the reliability of their indications, not enough to conclude for a fact that human remains had been there.
Re radar, I recall they said they used that but I don't remember why I wasn't impressed, just that I wasn't, lol.
Re why false, to me, the most important aspect is there's no corroborative evidence.

They do that for verification purposes. That's why I do not take much consideration into a dog hit if they only used one and did not bring in at least one more, from a different entity, come to confirm.

 

[Guess Who]

The affidavit states that a witness saw "Michael" on a "Big Wheel". First, unless the witness knew Michael, she can't positively identify him.
Second, a Big Wheel and a trike are distinctly different riding toys, so which was it?

The grands here called their big wheels "trikes". They are 3 wheeled, which is where the term trike comes from. They, by definition, are tricycles.

 

[Guess Who]

I have heard of a Big Wheel being called a trike and vice versa many times. It is a 3 wheeled riding toy, both have 3 wheels. They also call a 3 wheeled motorcycle a trike. To me, that means nothing at all as they aren't distinctly different. I know what you mean though as I call one a Big Wheel and the other a trike but not all do.

My AZ relatives always called a 4 wheeler a bike. ??? Why I don't know lol. We call them 4 wheelers. Some call them ATVs (which they are).

Anyhow, BIg Wheel or trike means little to me as I've heard it done on many an occasion.

Exactly. Just like the term "bike" means two wheels and not if it has a motor or pedals.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I don't think the splash pad was really brought up in the PCA, was it? Other than:

3. The video of a male seen walking near the splash pad that police had asked for help identifying, turned out to be Brandon Shurtliff, who was living with the Wondra's. (See post 196-199, & 332)

There were several people and vehicles that investigators asked for help identifying. One turned out to be this dude living at the Wondra's.
That alone doesn't implicate him in anything. Just interesting.
I know the splash pad was brought up early on by people wondering if Michael could have gone there to look for kids to play with. But nothing like that was ever confirmed.

 

[Guess Who]

I don't think the splash pad was really brought up in the PCA, was it? Other than:


There were several people and vehicles that investigators asked for help identifying. One turned out to be this dude living at the Wondra's.
That alone doesn't implicate him in anything. Just interesting.
I know the splash pad was brought up early on by people wondering if Michael could have gone there to look for kids to play with. But nothing like that was ever confirmed.

It sounds to me like LE went to the splash pad to look at their cameras and saw this guy that did not belong there or was doing something that stood out to them at a certain time and caught their attention and it went from there.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I don't think the splash pad was really brought up in the PCA, was it? Other than:


There were several people and vehicles that investigators asked for help identifying. One turned out to be this dude living at the Wondra's.
That alone doesn't implicate him in anything. Just interesting.
I know the splash pad was brought up early on by people wondering if Michael could have gone there to look for kids to play with. But nothing like that was ever confirmed.

Yeah, I am not sure if it is significant or not, just that it was put in there and wondered if it is.

 

[Regina]

Like you all, I don't know if the "big wheel" and the "tricycle" are the same thing or what Michael was riding. But here is a pink, big wheel trike that could be described as either.

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ETA: Per the PCA, it was actually a Big Flyer that was found, not Big Wheel like the witness said. But they look similar / could easily be mistaken. Just a branding thing.

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I think it's that when I think of tricycle, I'm not thinking of a "Big Wheel" and so I'm not fond of LE's use of the word "tricycle".
That, and I'd have preferred that the affidavit stated it as a fact that the "riding toy with the big wheel" (lol) that was recovered was identified by the witness as the same one.

 

[Regina]

Per the affidavit, Brandon lied about why he was walking around between 6:08 and 6:28 but it's of no relevance to me being that he's nowhere near where Micheal was known to have been during that timeframe.
Now I don't know where he went or why but I do know why he was on foot, you know, it was because his car was broken down in Kuna.