New Details Shared in Case of Missing Milford Township Teen

Pennsylvania State Police at Dublin have shared additional information about a missing 13-year-old from Milford Township, Bucks County, according to news reports published Wednesday and in a news release issued by the barracks.

Kadin Kent Willauer reportedly left his Quakertown area home around 3:30 a.m. Sunday in his family’s white Chrysler Town & Country minivan, which bore a license plate that read JVZ-0143.

Police said he later changed the license plate to a stolen tag that reads ZGW-4969, according to a Fox News story. That report also said Willauer was captured on store surveillance putting gas in the minivan at an Upper Saucon Township service station at around 4 a.m. Sunday.

Lehigh Valley Live has reported that the van was next seen around 1 p.m. Sunday on I-95 in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., although it apparently wasn’t clear if Willauer was behind the wheel at that point.

The news site reported that Willauer did not take his cell phone with him when he left home, has not contacted his parents since running away, has no known connection to the area in which the van was last spotted and left home with “some” money.

In the news release issued by state police Wednesday, however, police said that a 13-year-old boy who disappeared from his home in Milford Township Sunday morning took with him “a significant amount of cash in order to runaway (sic),” in addition to a minivan.

Police initially said they believed Willauer was likely still in the Bucks County area, and Trooper Nathan Branosky of the Dublin barracks has told media that he is a skilled ATV and dirt bike enthusiast who’s accustomed to spending time outdoors.

That information apparently prompted police to search a section of the Appalachian Trail Tuesday.

Police have not outlined a motive for Willauer’s apparent decision to run away, however Branosky made a personal appeal to him to return, telling him “your family and support system really cares about you,” according to the Fox News report.

Willauer is 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs approximately 140 pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to call the Dublin Pennsylvania State Police barracks at 215-249-9191.