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gwen
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Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:13 am |
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FBI Joins Search for Missing WA State Girl-Lindsey Baum
SEATTLE — FBI agents have joined the search for a 10-year-old Grays Harbor County girl missing since Friday night.
Lindsey Baum was last seen walking home from a friend's house about six blocks from her own home in the small town of McCleary.
Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott says law enforcement officers were canvassing the city Sunday. He says search and rescue volunteers and others combed the area Saturday where the girl was last seen but "didn't yield anything."
Scott says there's no evidence of foul play, but his agency is "beginning to investigate with that possibility in mind."
The girl's mother reported her missing at Friday night.
"I just need my daughter home," Melissa Baum, the girl's mother told The Aberdeen Daily World. She said she's afraid someone has taken her daughter and away from McCleary, a town of about 1,500.
McCleary Police Chief George Crumb told the newspaper that while his department hoped she ran off, "she's been gone far too long."
"This is a small town. These things don't happen. And yet here they are," Melissa McCann, a family friend told KOMO-TV. "She comes from her friend's [house] a lot, so it doesn't make sense that she didn't show up at home. We're just baffled."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529419,00.html?test=latestnews
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| gwen
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Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:01 pm |
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Mother of Missing Washington Girl Begs Those With Information to Come Forward
The mother of a 10-year-old Washington state girl who vanished over the weekend pleaded for those who might have seen anything out of the ordinary to come forward.
Lindsey Baum was last seen walking home from a friend's house Friday night, about six blocks away from her home in the tiny town of McCleary.
Her mother, Melissa Baum, said on FOX News Tuesday that "if anyone has seen or heard anything — any little thing that they saw and thought, hmm, that's kind of odd," they should call police immediately.
FBI agents have joined the hunt for Lindsey, of Grays Harbor County.
"They have informed me that they are expanding the search," Melissa Baum told FOX. "At this point, it's being treated as an abduction."
Lindsey has been upset over her parents' ongoing divorce and may have run away.
Baum said the child's father was 3,000 miles away when she disappeared.
Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott said authorities canvassed the city Saturday and Sunday but didn't find any clues.
He said there's no evidence of foul play, but his agency is "beginning to investigate with that possibility in mind."
McCleary Police Chief George Crumb told The Abderdeen Daily World that while his department hoped Lindsey ran off, "she's been gone far too long."
Baum reported her daughter missing Friday night about 10 p.m. when Lindsey failed to come home.
Neighbors and friends say the whole town is on edge.
"I'm starting to think the worst because it has been two days now and it is a small town and somebody would have said something," family friend Melissa McCann said earlier this week.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529582,00.html
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| gwen
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Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:31 am |
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Searchers on Horseback Hunt for Signs of Missing Washington Girl
Searchers on horseback hunted for signs of a missing 10-year-old Washington girl in her small hometown of McCleary and on nearby trails in areas they could reach.
Friends and townspeople gathered Tuesday night in the small Western Washington community for a candlelight vigil for Lindsey Baum, who has been missing since Friday night when she went to play with a friend.
Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott says several tips have been received, and investigators would like to talk to anyone who may have seen anything suspicious in McCleary between the hours of 8:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday when the little girl failed to return home from the friend's house.
Melissa Baum fears her daughter was abducted.
Lindsey is 4 foot-9, 80 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, last seen wearing a light blue hooded pullover shirt and blue jeans.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the Grays Harbor Emergency 911 Center at (360) 533-8765.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529688,00.html?test=latestnews
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Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:36 am |
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Once in awhile, these stories have a good ending. Let's hope this one does as well.
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Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:26 am |
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Race to Find Girl Before Dad Goes To Iraq
Lindsey Baum, 11, Missing More than Two Weeks; Dad's National Guard Unit Deploying Soon
CBS) A desperate search for a Washington State girl missing for more than two weeks is all-the-more urgent because her father is due to deploy to Iraq soon.
Police say Lindsey Baum, 11, of the small town of McCleary, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, vanished the night of June 26 while walking home from a friend's house just four blocks away.
More than 100 searchers have used dogs, horses and helicopters seeking any trace of Lindsey, but investigators says they have little to go on, and they're appealing to the public for help.
Lindsey's father, Scott Baum, made an emotional appeal to anyone knowing her whereabouts, saying, "Please bring me my daughter home before I have to leave" for Iraq.
With their daughter missing, Lindsey's parents, who are divorced, marked her 11th birthday on July 7 with a plea for her safe return.
On "The Early Show" Monday, Scott told co-anchor Julie Chen, "My heart's really heavy. ... I'm torn between sense of family and duty." He added that his commanders in the military have given him as uch time as he needs to see his personal ordeal through.
Asked by Chen what she would say if Lindsey could hear her, Lindsey's mother, Melissa Baum, repsonded, "I want Lindsey to know that I love her more than anything in the world and that I'm not giving up on her. I will never stop looking for her. I will look for her until I have her in my arms again."
"My heart tels me she's alive," Melissa said. "I really don't doubt that. Where, I would give anything if I had a clue as to where she was."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/13/earlyshow/main5154789.shtml?tag=stack
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Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:52 pm |
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Cops' Search in Lindsey Baum Case Comes Up Empty
Police Served Warrants, but Found No Evidence of Missing Girl
Volunteers gathered in McCleary, Wash., this weekend to hunt for any trace of Lindsey Baum, the 11-year-old girl who has been missing for more than three months. Police acknowledged they are looking for new leads after a search failed to link a possible suspect to the girl's disappearance.
"There was no evidence that clearly indicated that the people and the individual we were looking at had anything to do with her disappearance," Undersheriff Rick Scott, of the Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department, one of the agencies investigating the girl's disappearance, told ABCNews.com. "Having served these warrants, we found nothing, so we're pursuing other leads."
The affidavit for the warrants, which were released Friday and were served on Sept. 25, indicated that there were discrepancies in the alibi of the person police were looking at, a man who works at a retirement home near where Lindsey, who should have started sixth grade this fall, was last seen.
According to the affidavit, from Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department Det. Matt Organ, police originally wanted to talk to the man because a person called and said his car, a small white sports car with a loud exhaust, was seen in the area the night of Lindsey's disappearance and then was not seen around for several days afterwards, which the tipster considered suspicious.
When police contacted the possible suspect, according to the affidavit, he told them he was working a second job at a youth camp that night, but a supervisor at the camp told police he was in fact not there and had been suspended two weeks earlier.
Police also became suspicious when they spoke to a former girlfriend of the man, who told them that the day after Lindsey's disappearance he said he was very concerned that something like that could happen in the town, the affidavit said.
Sibling Squabble Separated Lindsey From Her Brother Night of Disappearance
The man allegedly told the woman "he could not believe that a girl had been taken and cut up and dismembered," the affidavit said.
At that point, however, police were still treating the disappearance as a missing person case and had said nothing about suspecting foul play, according to the affidavit.
The man was the most recent in a series of people who police have looked closely at in the case, Scott said.
"There's been a lot of different people who had our attention and might have been called persons of interest," he said. "It might have been a matter of hours or a matter of days. The case where we served these warrants was just like that, but after having looked at what was found, we are pursuing other leads."
Lindsey disappeared the evening of June 26, somewhere along the 10-minute walk down a densely populated suburban street between her house and a friend's.
Lindsey's mother, Melissa Baum, told ABCNews.com days after the disappearance that she last saw her daughter when Lindsey, along with her 12-year-old brother, Josh, headed out to Lindsey's friend's house in hopes she could get permission to spend the night at the Baum's house.
Baum said her children began squabbling over the use of Josh's bike on the way there and were stopped by a family friend who sent Josh home to end the argument. Lindsey continued on to her friend's house. When Lindsey's friend found out she couldn't stay the night, Lindsey headed for home around 9:30 p.m.
"When she wasn't home by 10, I started to get nervous," Baum said, adding that 10 p.m. is the curfew for her children.
She began calling Lindsey's cell phone, only to find that her daughter had left it plugged into the charger. Initially thinking that her daughter must have met up with friends in the neighborhood, Baum set out on foot to find her.
Lindsey Last Spotted Mere Blocks From Her Home at 9:30 p.m.
But there was no sign of her. Eventually, her friend's parents joined the search by car. Baum even let her daughter's beloved German shepherd, Kadence, off its leash in hopes the dog would help find her. Finally, around 10:45 p.m., Baum said she called the police.
At the time, Scott said there were a few businesses located just off the street Lindsey would have used to get home, and while the girl did not appear in any of the videos, police received clues about who was in the area at the time she disappeared.
Scott said witnesses were able to put Lindsey within a couple of blocks of her house just after 9:30 p.m. The last person reported to have seen her, he said, was a neighbor on her way to work.
Baum described her daughter as outgoing, talkative and mature for her age. She loved to read and write, and had big plans for her future.
"She insisted when she grows up she's going to be an author and an illustrator and a veterinarian," Baum said.
Lindsey was 10 at the time she disappeared, and her mother said she was looking forward to celebrating her 11th birthday July 7.
At the search headquarters Friday, Baum told ABC News Seattle affiliate KOMO-TV that she became hopeful after learning police have a person of interest.
"I'm hoping they'll find her and give her back," she said.
Volunteers from McCleary and all over the region came to join the most recent search, which began Friday and continued through today.
"I can easily imagine how how hard it is, and this is the least I can do," Jen Page, a mother who drove 90 miles to help look for Lindsey, told KOMO-TV.
Scott said that though police have kept their efforts separate from the volunteers', investigators welcome the help.
"We're encouraging everyone, hunters in the woods, to have their head on the swivle to look for evidence of Lindsey and her disappearance," he said. "We're at the same time continuing our criminal investigation."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/lindsey-baum-missing-months-disappearance/Story?id=8744233&page=1
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