Kelsie Schelling’s mother demands answers

Kelsie Schelling’s mother, Laura Saxton, calls her lawsuit a last resort and hopes the more she pushes for answers, the sooner she’ll get them.

She has hundreds of supporters but she doesn’t have what she wants most of all: Kelsie.

“The investigation really isn’t being handled properly,” Saxton said.

She hopes a lawsuit against Pueblo police, and the man she claims is behind her daughter’s disappearance, will give a distraught mother those clues.

“It breaks my heart that any of us have to out here,” she said. “It breaks my heart that we have to march to make the police do anything.”

When Kelsie Schelling disappeared, Saxton said Kelsie was meeting her boyfriend, Donthe Lucas.

“I do know detectives have been in contact with him,” Sgt. Eric Gonzales, the Pueblo Police Department public information officer, told KRDO Newschannel 13 in February 2013.

But police insist Lucas is not a suspect.

Lucas has stayed quiet in the case, his only comments were in a 2013.

“I’d rather just have my name stay out of the media altogether,” he told KRDO Newschannel 13 at the time. “I’m not gonna answer your questions so at this time I’m going to hang up again.”

A Colorado Courts Search found Lucas has a clean record, with only a few traffic tickets.

He was accused of identity theft, suspected of using Schelling’s credit card shortly after her disappearance. But the case was dismissed in court.

While Lucas hasn’t talked, Saxton hopes the more she does the sooner she’ll get the answers she desperately wants.

“We’re going to see it through to the end. And do what we have to do to get justice for her,” she said.

While the lawsuit names Lucas, police never named him a suspect and the District Attorney’s office never charged him with anything.

The Pueblo Police Department was also named in this suit for ignoring evidence, but won’t comment on ongoing litigation.