Every morning, Kevin and Kelly Kautzer play the card game UNO in the kitchen of their rural Montezuma mobile home.
And every morning, they said, they always see the boy next door 11-year-old Xavior Harrelson riding his blue bike outside their north-facing window. I think he tries to get our daughter s attention, said Kelly Kautzer, 51. She s 10, and they play and ride bikes together all the time. I think he has a little crush on her.
But on the morning of May 27, Kevin and Kelly Kautzer didn t see Harrelson outside.
“I’ve never seen him leave the mobile home park except to go to school,” said Kevin Kautzer, 59. By then, Montezuma schools had already started their summer vacation.