According to Lieutenant Delmar Lange, the police initially thought that the three ran away together, but the two other kids returned home by the weekend. Steven did not, so the police determined the three were not connected. Steven traced to Harbor Haven Rescue Mission On Saturday, police used a blood hound to track Steven s scent. They traced his footsteps to the back door of the Harbor Haven Rescue Mission. Steven often went there with the dogs to play.
Investigators say the mission was one of the first places they looked.
We thought perhaps he had somehow gotten into the church and was hiding in there, says Lieutenant Delmar Lange. So we had the church opened up and searched and he wasn't there. Steven's dogs return home without him Sunday morning, Molly, one of the dogs with Steven the day he vanished, returned home. Unfortunately she was alone. Monday, search teams found the German Shepperd puppy, Chopper, about a mile from the house.