James Julius Beaudrie Arrested: Iowa Man Who Allegedly Abused Own Children Found In Chicago

James Julius Beaudrie

An Iowa man who went on the run after he allegedly sexually abused three of his nine children was arrested early Thursday morning in Chicago.

Authorities with the U.S. Marshal Service located James Julius Beaudrie, 36, after tracking the suspect from Des Moines to Salt Lake City and back through the Midwest.

The investigations dates back six months to when Beaudrie's oldest daughter ran away from home, leading her father to be charged with assault, ABC-5 reported.

The Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force burst into a Chicago apartment complex North Lawndale Avenue around 7 a.m. this morning, according to a statement.

Beaudrie escaped, but not for long, according to the Marshals.

"Once the arrest team made entry into the apartment, task force officers learned that Beaudrie had fled through a rear door... moments earlier in an apparent attempt to avoid arrest," the Marshal Service said. "Following a short search of the area, task force officers located Beaudrie who was attempting to hide under a stairwell of the apartment complex. Task force officers arrested Beaudrie without further incident."

Authorities brought Beaudrie to Chicago Police Department’s central processing center. He is expected to be placed in Cook County Jail where he will await extradition to Iowa, police said.

Police initially thought that Beaudrie fled Des Moines for Salt Lake City, where his abandoned van was found on April, 13, parked at a Greyhound bus station.

At one point, police believed that the suspect was making stops at "Magic: The Gathering" trading card conventions during his run from the law.

"Beaudrie has an interest in “Magic: The Gathering” and “Yu-Gi-Oh” trading and game cards," according to a previous statement. "Beaudrie may be traveling the country and attending conventions and trade shows where these types of cards are bought and sold."

The Marshall Service noted that Salt Lake City was also the site of a “Magic: The Gathering” convention on March 31 through April 1.

On Monday, authorities arrested the suspects wife, Kijua Beaudrie, on three counts of neglect of a dependent child, KCCI reported.

Before going on the lam, Beaudrie was living with his family in the GameSip store inside Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines, which he operated, ABC-5 reported.

James Beaudrie faces eight counts of sexual abuse.

All nine of his children are under the age of 16 and now in foster care.

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Comments

[John Adleman]

02:41 AM on 04/22/2012

I know this may get me in trouble, but here goes any way because I think it's high time someone took a stand. How about a pedophile hunting season?

[jamesbb08]

03:22 AM on 04/22/2012

If you're being sarcastic then I suppose I'll be the one in trouble. Executing pedophiles and proven murderers is rational and logical. I agree.

[John Adleman]

03:49 AM on 04/22/2012

No, I'm not being sarcastic at all. I am sick of religious people standing in the way of justice and peace for people who've been victimized. Some of us have to still function and live while these monsters exist, and what's their purpose? Why do we pay to house, feed, clothe them? Waste of money. I can't afford the luxury of hiding behind religion to excuse destroying monsters.

[John Adleman]

03:52 AM on 04/22/2012

The query then becomes if you kill a pedophile, are you a murderer? I don't think so, but someone else just might.

[John Adleman]

02:33 AM on 04/22/2012

This guy needs to be put in the ground, and forgotten. Then those kids will heal. But the problem is, the religious will oppose that on the grounds that it goes against their beliefs. OK, so you're willing to ensure a lifetime of haunted memories and fear that this person will return and cause more harm in his children's lives than to allow them to have peace? How nice.

[GOCmember]

02:40 AM on 04/20/2012

sick mf'er

[rewith85man]

01:33 AM on 04/20/2012

Those kids are better off with strangers who love and care for them while their so-called parents can rot in a cell. They would be good bait for the other inmates/prisoners.

[Kynz]

05:39 PM on 04/20/2012

Have you seen/heard/read any of the recent news about what happens to kids living with strangers supposedly for the purpose of protection?! Sometimes CPS places kids in WORSE homes and kids die all of the time because CPS does not screen appropriately or check on the kids after they are placed. Some monsters put themselves up as foster parents for the purpose of access to kids they can abuse. There is NO LOVE for kids in the system.

[John Adleman]

02:33 AM on 04/22/2012

Precisely, and to further demonstrate your point, Anti-social personality disorder is pervasive in our society for one, for two, unless you know what to look for, their mimicking skills are quite developed in most cases to fool even the most well intentioned social workers, lawyers, judges, casa workers. In addition, there are many who work in group homes, and mental health institutions, juvenile halls, and other youth facilities all across this nation. The drawback that I see is that there's a need for accurate mandatory reporting of abuse in the system to the feds so that we can see what needs changed and to ensure those changes, make it so if you don't report, you lose your funding, jobs, and freedom, and are civilly liable for harm that comes to children in your care.

Like the recent religious camp in the news under suspicion of abusing children. There needs to be more oversight, and there's no one willing to pay for it. So all these kids that will be lost, well, those of us who can't or won't pay for it can do one of two things, look in the mirror and say hmm, I could have done more, or actually do more by getting involved. I have tons of ideas to help change this, but am met with resistance every time I talk to people.

[John Adleman]

02:35 AM on 04/22/2012

Had to say this too as I ran out of room. Unless you've been victimized like these kids you've no comprehension the terror they feel. I know personally, I lived that life long ago and am still haunted as many of my tormentors still breathes and there's not a damned thing I can do because justice doesn't exist in this world thanks to the pompous know it alls that think it's wrong to end people like this.

[scrapper7]

09:23 PM on 04/19/2012

It appears to me, that these trading cards he's 'in to', would allow him a ruse to gain access to children. This pig should be sliced and diced and used for fertilizer! His face is repulsive!

These low-life predators are EVERYWHERE! There is NO PLACE children are SAFE any longer.

I feel very sorry for the children growing up in today's society. THEY'RE THE FIRST GENERATION THAT ACTUALLY HAS LEGITIMATE REASON TO QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT THEY WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW UP!

If I were still of child-bearing years, I'm not quite sure how I would feel about having another child in this corrupt world.

[rewith85man]

01:35 AM on 04/20/2012

You're right. It makes me so glad that life is short. People who are evil and selfish won't live that long.

[Puzzlr]

07:34 PM on 04/19/2012

That's what these guys are doing these days. Creating their very on child abuse pool.