AURORA — For the second time in as many weeks, investigators looking for an autistic child wearing an electronic device designed to send a signal if its wearer goes missing say the beacon failed.
Aurora police said Brandon Wells, 11, was wearing a Life Trak device on his ankle when he left his home near East Hampden Avenue and South Picadilly Street about 9:30 p.m. Sunday through a second-story window.
But the device was not sending a signal, investigators said.
On May 30, police activated the system designed to locate a Life Trak beacon that Kristina Vlassenko, 10, was wearing on her wrist, but they were unable to receive a signal. Her body was found the next day in murky water at an Arvada construction site.
Brandon was luckier. An Aurora park ranger spotted the silhouette of a boy inside the fence at the Plains Conservation Center, about a mile from his home, around 4 a.m. Monday. It was Brandon.
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