Posted at: 03/22/2013 11:04 AM
Updated at: 03/23/2013 12:25 PM
By: Jennie Olson
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Email to a FriendSearch Continues for Kira Trevino at Keller Lake
Crews continued searching a Maplewood park on Saturday looking for a missing St. Paul woman. The day's first search came up with no new evidence at Keller Lake.
Thirty-year-old Kira Trevino has been missing for nearly a month. Rescue crews have scheduled five search events this weekend to try to find her.
Trevino has been missing since Feb. 24, and her husband, 39-year-old Jeffrey Trevino, is charged in his wife’s death. Although Kira’s body has not been found, she’s presumed dead. Authorities believe that based on the amount of blood police found in her home and car and the fact that it's uncharacteristic for her to go missing without contacting anyone.
On Friday, the Ramsey County Attorney's Office released an updated criminal complaint. According to the complaint, Bloomington Police recovered video from Mall of America showing Kira Trevino's Chevy Cobalt in the parking lot and a man throwing what looks like the trunk liner out of the car.
The man then got in an Airport Cab and traveled to the 600 block of East Iowa in St. Paul, which is less than a mile from his home, according to the complaint. A witness told police she was driving on Highway 61 next to Keller Lake in Maplewood early on Friday, Feb. 22, and saw two men on the frozen lake struggling to carry something that was about the size of a person.
Kira Trevino's family then organized a search party of Keller Lake, and one of the witnesses found a plastic bag tied shut. Inside was a bloody pillow, a pillowcase, a sports bra, a shirt, and a sponge; DNA analysis indicates the blood matches Kira Trevino, according to the criminal complaint.
Cadaver dogs were then brought to Keller Lake and reacted positively to a hole cut in the ice, indicating there might be a dead human in the lake.
Investigators say their goal is to bring Kira home. If that means looking at every piece of evidence that comes in, then that is what they will do.
Police have set up a tip line for the case; the phone number for the tip line is 651-560-3277.
Here are the details about the searches this weekend:
Day: Saturday
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 2166 Maplewood Dr., Maplewood
Day: Saturday
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: 1050 Edgewater Blvd., St. Paul
Day: Sunday
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 2166 Maplewood Dr., Maplewood
Day: Sunday
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Bloomington
Day: Sunday
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Round Lake
The Ramsey County Attorney's Office has released an updated criminal complaint for Jeffrey Trevino. To read the complaint, click here. WARNING: May contain graphic material.
