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1994 Krum, Kelli Jo August 11,1994; Arcadia 21 YO
Topic Started: Dec 3 2006, 05:12 PM (530 Views)
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Kelli Jo Krum


Above: Kelli, circa 1994


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: August 11, 1994 from Arcadia, Florida
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: January 12, 1971
Age: 21 years old
Height and Weight: 4'10, 135 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, blue eyes. Kelli has a scar on one of her elbows. Some agencies may spell her first name "Kellie."


Details of Disappearance

Kelli was last seen in her residence on Second Avenue in Arcadia, Florida with her infant daughter, Kelsi Krum, just prior to 12:00 a.m. on August 11, 1994. Kelli was in the process of moving to her parents' home in Sebring, Florida at the time. She and Kelsi were reportedly last seen by their cousin, James Dennis "Jimbo" Ford. Kelli was apparently speaking on the phone and packing boxes at the time Ford saw her. Neither she nor Kelsi have been heard from again.
Kelli and Kelsi's residence did not show any signs of a struggle when investigators searched the house shortly after their disappearances. Their belongings had been partially packed in preparation for the pending move. Ford was given a polygraph test in 1997 regarding the Krums' cases and failed. He refused to take another lie detector test and has never been charged in connection with the disappearances.

Ford was convicted and sentenced to death in 1999 for the 1997 murders of a Florida couple. The investigation into the homicides led authorities to investigate the renewed possibility Ford was involved in the Krums' cases, as well as an unsolved Florida homicide from 1984. Investigators searched an orange grove near Arcadia in 1997 after Ford's arrest when they received a tip that the Krums' bodies were buried in the area. No evidence was located at the site. There have been no arrests in the Krums' disappearances and the cases remain unsolved, but foul play is suspected.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
DeSoto County Sheriff's Office
863-993-4700



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
The Sun Herald
Florida Department Of Law Enforcement



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http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll.../NEWS/703060418

Buchanan to help find missing children
By ANTHONY CORMIER



anthony.cormier@heraldtribune.com

PALMETTO -- Clay Moore, a Parrish teen who was recently abducted, came home.

Kelsi Krum never did.

Twelve years ago, the infant and her mother disappeared from their Arcadia home. The lights were on. The car was in the driveway. A diaper bag lay near the door. Bottles of formula waited in the freezer.

Police called the disappearances suspicious, and later questioned a cousin who may have been the last person to see them alive and now sits on death row for two unrelated murders.

But the family of Kelsi and her mother, Kelli Krum, has always wondered: What happened?

"We hired psychics, there was a big write-up in the paper -- but we never found out," said David Krum, Kelli's father.

Now, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, and law enforcement officials in Southwest Florida hope 6-cent envelopes can help find out what happened to the Krums and other missing Floridians.

The District 13 congressman displayed sample envelopes Monday that feature pictures and data about missing people from this region. Buchanan's staffers will use the envelopes for his regular correspondence with constituents in the five-county district.

Buchanan said the gunpoint kidnapping of 13-year-old Clay moved him to initiate the mailing, which he compared with missing-children pictures on the side of milk boxes.

Clay was snatched two weeks ago as he and his classmates waited for a school bus in Parrish. The man suspected in the abduction, Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno, has not been captured and may have left the country.

The envelopes are a cheap way to potentially revive decades-old missing persons cases, Buchanan said. A spokeswoman said a box of 500 envelopes costs $30.

"It's not a lot of money, but to find one kid it would be worth it," Buchanan said at a Monday news conference.

For the Krum family, the idea is not new. Kelli and Kelsi were featured on milk cartons, fliers and Web sites, and police are no closer to finding them now than they were in August 1994.

Kelli Krum did not show up on a Friday morning for her job at Food Lion, and her daughter never appeared at an Arcadia day-care center. Police scoured DeSoto County, and psychics from Orlando and New Orleans offered to help.

One psychic said Kelli and Kelsi were alive and well in West Virginia. Another told the family that one day they would find out what happened to the girl and her mother, although their bodies would never be recovered.

Perhaps the best lead in the case came during a Charlotte County murder investigation. James Denis Ford was arrested and later convicted of the 1997 murders of a Punta Gorda couple, prompting an additional inquiry into the Krums' disappearances.

Ford was Kelli Krum's cousin, and the last person to see them alive. He left her Arcadia home after midnight and police said he later failed a polygraph test. Ford claims to know nothing of his cousin's disappearance and is currently on death row at Union Correctional Institution.

"Maybe when his time comes on death row, old Jimbo will know something," David Krum said in a phone conversation from his Pennsylvania home.

"It's always been something that has troubled this family. We'd just like to know what happened."
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Desoto County Sheriff's Office
Detective K. Lewis
863-993-4700

Agency Case Number:
C9408369

NCMEC #: NCMC794464

NCIC Number: M-759557120

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