Body Of Missing 10-Year-Old Girl Found In Woods: Chippewa Falls Police

CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI — Police found the body of a 10-year-old Chippewa Falls girl on Monday after she didn't return home Sunday night, multiple sources reported.

The Chippewa County Coroner office confirmed that Iliana M. Peters' body was found in a wooded area near Duncan Creek Trail around 9:15 a.m., Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm said in a news conference. Police are treating the discovery as a homicide and no one is in custody.

"We are continuing to follow up on multiple leads," and has "numerous assisting agencies," Kelm said. Police would work diligently and tirelessly on the case, the chief added.

Iliana M. Peters did not return home from a trip to her aunt's house, her father told police. Family members told police Peters was last seen that evening and she was supposed to be headed home to the 50 block of Birch Street, according to the police news release.

Officers located a bike believed to be owned by Peters in the woods a short distance from her aunt's house, near North Grove Street and a brewery parking lot. Police went door to door and searched the woods alongside the Chippewa County Sheriff's Department with no luck, the news release says.

Anyone with information was asked to call the Chippewa County Dispatch Center at 715-726-7701 option 1.