….(Jerry) Yelk himself has worked some 1,500 cases. He has a success rate in excess of 90 percent and holds what he believes is the world record for the oldest successful tracking operation.
….He’s retired, kind of, from tracking, though he still gets calls from all over the country and will take the occasional job. Dane County authorities contacted him in spring 2004 when Audrey Seiler was missing. “Turned it down,” Yelk said. “It smelled wrong right from the start.”
By Doug Moe