Iowa DCI provides update on search for Xavior Harrelson
DCI agents and Poweshiek County deputies continue to follow up on leads nearly 4 months after Xavior Harrelson disappeared.
DCI agents and Poweshiek County deputies continue to follow up on leads nearly 4 months after Xavior Harrelson disappeared.
DCI agents and Poweshiek County deputies continue to follow up on leads nearly 4 months after Xavior Harrelson disappeared.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says agents continue to follow up on leads nearly 4 months after 11-year-old Xavior Harrelson went missing.
Harrelson disappeared from his mobile home in Montezuma. A family friend reported him missing on May 27.
Investigators say a tip led them to Fox Forest County Recreation Area on Sept. 9. KCCI cameras captured approximately 25 law enforcement officials searching the rural area outside Montezuma.
"There was information that came up through the course of the investigation that led us to that. Unfortunately, I can't discuss at this time what that information is," said Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa DCI.
Mortvedt says agents also used K9s who are trained to track and recover a scent.
"We feel confident that we had covered everything that we needed to, and unfortunately there wasn't anything discovered at that time," Mortvedt said.
Investigators say they keep in regular contact with Xavior's mother, Sarah Harrelson, and have interviewed hundreds of people over the course of the investigation.
"We still are getting information in, of course, not as rapidly or not to the volume of information than we were in the beginning. We still have agents assigned to it who are working on it on pretty much a daily basis," Mortvedt said.
A reward fund for information in this case is approximately $34,000.
"We're hoping that if we just keep chipping away at it — we're going to have the piece of information come in that we need that's going to help resolve this," Mortvedt said.