POST FALLS, Idaho — It has been years since any confirmed sighting of Kristopher Loesch, but Post Falls Police say it remains an active missing person investigation. Family members continue to hold on to hope.
“They haven’t proven that he has passed,” Jo Loesch said of her nephew. “They haven’t found any evidence he’s not alive, so that’s what keeps us going.”
Kristopher would be 35-years-old today. Jo says the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children worked with the family to produce a new age progression photo. She says she couldn’t help but cry when she first saw it.
“This is really probably what he would look like,” she said through tears. “We submitted photos of his mother Tina and his uncle, Charles. We sent pictures of their childhood, teenage years, young adult so they could pull from that. We were able to send the pictures because we found his half-brother.”
All the work led to the new image that Jo hopes will generate new tips and leads.
The family has been tormented since Kristopher seemingly vanished with his mother, Tina Loesch, and her partner Skye Hanson, in the early 2000’s. They took off as detectives were closing in on them for their alleged roles in the murders of Kristopher’s grandparents. Gary Loesch was shot to death as he delivered newspapers in Kootenai County in 1995. His widow Barbara was found dead in her hot tub in 1998.
A man named Bradley Steckman, when arrested for another, unrelated murder in Pullman, told investigators Tina and Skye were involved in the murders. Steckman alleged they promised him a cut of Barbara’s life insurance money if he killed her and made it appear to be accidental. He says he was never paid.
When word got back to Skye and Tina that he was talking, police say they left the area.
“They vanished,” Greg McLean with Post Falls Police said in a January 2020 interview. “It’s like they disappeared off the face of the earth.”
With Kristopher believed to be with them, they went on with life. That was until a 2008 America’s Most Wanted episode on the murders.
“We got a call that night from the Pima County Sheriff’s Office,” McLean said a previous interview. “They said, ‘I think we may have found (Tina and Skye).”
They were dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Investigators never found Kristopher or any answers on where he could be.
Jo’s husband Charles was Tina’s brother. She says it’s been horrific.
“He lost his whole immediate family,” Jo said. “Father, mother, sister.”
But she clings to hope maybe not Kristopher too. She says if she could tell Kristopher one thing it would be that he is loved.
“Kristopher, you have family members who have been looking an hoping you’re okay,” Jo said. “We just want you home and to know that you’re okay. You may not even know you have family out there with all the different alias names you had to go by, being on the run. We’re here for you.”
Jo says Kristopher’s biological dad passed away in 2011. Post Falls Police ask anyone with information about Kristopher to please call 208.773.3517.
