10 Year Old Girl Found After Disappearing From Her Wisconsin Home

Kodie was last seen around 4 p.m. on July 6, 2020, in the 1100 block of 12th Street in Baraboo. Police responded to an apartment complex that afternoon and spoke with her mother. Concerned that the child was vulnerable and needed urgent help, authorities issued an Amber Alert. Officers, Baraboo Fire Department personnel, and K-9 teams from Wisconsin Dells joined the effort to locate her, searching nearby areas for any sign of where she had gone.

At approximately 11 a.m. on July 7, authorities located Kodie’s body near 11th Street and County Highway T. The search became an investigation into the circumstances of her death. The information provided did not establish a cause, leaving no basis for speculation about what happened. For those who loved Kodie and those who worked to find her, the outcome meant confronting the loss of a child they had hoped to bring home safely.

The account places the disappearance and discovery on consecutive days, showing how quickly the situation moved from an urgent search to a devastating outcome. For a family waiting for news, that sequence can be especially difficult to absorb. The hope that drives a search does not disappear gradually when a child is found dead; it is replaced by grief and questions that the available information may not immediately answer.

A missing-child search brings together people with different responsibilities. Police gather information and coordinate the response, while search personnel work through areas that may be relevant to the child’s last known movements. K-9 teams can contribute another method of searching. The involvement of those groups in this account reflects the urgency with which the disappearance was treated, without establishing details beyond those that were released.

The locations mentioned in the report help describe the sequence, but they do not explain the cause of death. That distinction should remain clear. Knowing where a child was last seen and where her body was located can be significant to an investigation, yet neither fact gives readers a basis for filling in the missing circumstances themselves. The absence of a stated cause is a limit on the information available, rather than an invitation to speculate.

The transition from search to investigation also changes the nature of the work being done. Efforts initially directed toward locating a child become efforts to establish what happened. That process can involve information that is not immediately shared publicly. Respecting those limits allows an account to remain accurate while recognizing the family’s need for answers and privacy.

For people who followed the alert, the outcome is a reminder that a public search concerns an individual child and the people who love her. The names of agencies and the times recorded in a report are part of that response, but they should not obscure the loss at its center. Kodie’s death brought an end to the hope of a safe return described in this account, while the circumstances remained a matter for investigators.

Remembering her with care means keeping the known sequence intact and avoiding assumptions about the unanswered questions. The report describes a disappearance, an urgent search, and the discovery of a child’s body. It does not supply an explanation of how she died. That boundary matters both for the accuracy of the account and for the dignity of the people affected by it.