Danbury Wisconsin, Renna Williams 3

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Updated: 08/15/2012 1:47 PM Created: 08/15/2012 7:38 AM KSTP.com

Crews Continue Search for Missing Toddler in Western Wis.

Crews are continuing the search for a 3-year-old girl who went missing from her Western Wisconsin home.

The Burnett County Sheriff’s Office says they received the missing child report around 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The girl, Renna Williams, allegedly wandered away from her home in the town of Swiss. The home is located on a 40-acre island in the middle of Yellow River.

Burnett County spokeswoman Dawn Sargent says authorities searched by air and on the ground until about 3 a.m. and resumed the search at daylight Wednesday.

Helicopters from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Minnesota State Patrol, as well as K-9 units have been used in the search.

The DNR is searching the Yellow River and the Yellow River dam, which is two to three miles from the Renna's home.

Renna, is described as a white female with green eyes and blonde hair in a partial pony tail. She was last seen on the island wearing pants, a long-sleeved purple shirt, and no shoes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Burnett County Sheriff’s Office at 715-349-2121.

The town of Swiss is located about 15 miles north of Siren, Wis.

Click here to watch a press conference on the search.

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Published August 15, 2012, 11:57 AM

Volunteers, law enforcement officers search for 3-year-old in Burnett County

UPDATE: Renna Williams was last seen on the family property on an island in the Yellow River about one mile south of Danbury, Wilhelm said.

Dozens of law enforcement officers were joined by firefighters and volunteers in Burnett County today in the search for a 3-year-old girl who apparently wandered away from home Tuesday evening.

“We have several teams on the ground” conducting shoulder-to-shoulder searches for Renna Williams, Burnett County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Wilhelm said at a morning news conference. The area contains dense forest, swamps, waterways, areas of thick brush and open areas.

Renna was last seen on the family property on an island in the Yellow River about one mile south of Danbury, Wilhelm said. Searchers are operating on the belief that the girl wandered away from her home, though they are not ruling anything out, he said.

“We have some boats in the water to make sure she’s not in it,” Wilhelm said.

The island is connected to the mainland by several bridges.

Shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday the Burnett County Sheriff’s Office received a report that the girl was missing after she apparently wandered away from her residence in the unincorporated village of Danbury in the Town of Swiss, about 60 miles south of the Twin Ports.

Law enforcement and rescue personnel began searching the area immediately, and were assisted by multiple K-9 search and rescue teams as well as a Minnesota State Patrol helicopter equipped with an infrared imaging system. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is searching the St. Croix River and Danbury dam, which is two to three miles from the girl’s home.

About 70 volunteers helped search Tuesday night, Burnett County spokeswoman Dawn Sargent said. The ground search was suspended at 2:56 a.m. until it became light this morning.

Today about 50 law enforcement officers, plus firefighters and volunteers, are conducting the search within about a one-mile radius of where the girl was last seen.

“We will expand that” if needed as the day goes on, Wilhelm said.

Renna is white, with green eyes, and blonde hair worn in a partial pony tail. She was last seen wearing pants and a long-sleeved purple shirt. She was not wearing shoes.

Anyone traveling through Danbury on Tuesday evening who might have seen Renna should contact the Burnett County Sheriff’s Office at [phone].

Wilhelm said volunteers are welcome and should report to the ball field in Danbury. They should come appropriately dressed in boots, heavy pants, long-sleeved shirts, gloves and hats.

Rhonda Reynolds, Burnett County emergency management director, said search organizers put into practice lessons learned from a missing-person search in the county several years ago.

“They learned a lot from that search, and the need to search shoulder to shoulder,” Reynolds said. “We are doing that slogging search right now.”

Ashley Frye and Eric Haupt, both of Spooner, were among 14 volunteers in a team that lined up along Burnett County Highway F about 11:30 a.m. to search the woods to the east.

“If it was my kid, I would want as many people as possible to show up,” said Frye, who learned of the search on Facebook.

“It hits close to home,” Haupt said. “I figure if I had kids, I would want someone to help.”

The team was led by Wisconsin DNR Ranger Kirby Dernovsek, who briefed the team before leading them into the woods in a long line.

“You will be following everyone on your right, walking straight into the sun about 10 feet apart, Dernovsek said. “The thing with search and rescue is you have to follow the grids. We have to walk straight through everything.”

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Search resumes for missing 3-year-old girl in Burnett County

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:07 p.m. CDT

DANBURY, WI (WTAQ) - Authorities in far northwest Wisconsin have been looking Wednesday for a three-year-old girl missing from her home in Danbury.

Burnett County sheriff’s deputies said Renna Williams was last seen at her home around 7 p.m. Tuesday. She was not wearing any shoes when she disappeared.

She’s described as having blond hair and green eyes, wearing a long-sleeve purple shirt and jean shorts.

Helicopters from the Wisconsin DNR and the Minnesota State Patrol have joined the search for Renna, along with a K-9 unit.

The search was suspended around 3 a.m. Wednesday, and it resumed at daybreak. The search area included the St. Croix River and the Danbury dam, a couple of miles from Renna’s home.

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Updated: 08/15/2012 7:20 PM Created: 08/15/2012 7:38 AM KSTP.com

Body of Missing Wis. 3-Year-old Found in Canal

Authorities in Burnett County, Wis., say the body of a 3-year-old girl who went missing from her western Wisconsin home has been found.

The body of Renna Williams was found around 4:50 p.m. Wednesday in a water canal about 25 yards from her home. Dive team members found Renna in the canal, which is about 2 to 3 feet deep.

The Burnett County Sheriff’s Office received the missing child report around 7 p.m. Tuesday. She allegedly wandered away from her home in the town of Swiss in search of a dog. The home is located on a 40-acre island in the middle of Yellow River. The town of Swiss is located about 15 miles north of Siren, Wis.

Burnett County spokeswoman Dawn Sargent says authorities searched by air and on the ground until about 3 a.m. and resumed the search at daylight Wednesday. Hundreds of volunteers and law officers searched for her.

Authorities are continuing to investigate the case as a missing person case at this time.

An autopsy is planned.

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Parents smoking pot, and not smart enough to put up fencing. Lovely.


Reena Mae Williams' Parents, Jenna Danish And Thomas Jay Williams, Arrested After Daughter's Death



A Wisconsin couple whose young daughter wandered from home and drowned in a canal during August turned themselves in to police on Sunday.

Jenna Danish, 33, and Thomas Jay Williams, 44, face charges of child neglect resulting in death following the death of their 3-year-old, Reena Mae Williams, the Associated Press reports.

Police issued an arrest warrant for the parents on Friday, but when they arrived to search their Danbury home, nobody was there. They did, however, make several troubling discoveries.

WTAQ reports:

According to the criminal complaint, the windows facing the canal were covered with sheets. Officers also found regular and synthetic marijuana, along with paraphernalia in the home. The complaint also describes the home is [sic] surrounded on three sides by water without appropriate fences or safety devices, and that it was not a safe place for a three year old child.

When Williams disappeared on Aug. 14, more than 100 volunteers searched wooded areas surrounding the family's home, according to KARE.

Neighbors said they would often see the girl wandering around the neighborhood alone, according to the New York Daily News.

Danish and Williams are currently in the Burnett County Jail.

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