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3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford was last seen in her home at 6:30 am on Saturday, September 24. The search for her began at 11:30 am that day. Multiple searches have been done with no results.
Aliayah's ears are pierced and she is missing her top four front teeth. She was last seen wearing purple Dora pajama bottoms, a pink princess sweatshirt, and no shoes.
If anyone has information, please call 304-269-8245. This non-emergency number for the Lewis County 911 center is answered 24 hours a day.

Aliayah Lunsford
 
Lewis County girl missing
Almost four days into the search, and still no word from Aliayah Lunsford, 3, missing from her Weston-area home.
Wendy Alkire is one of around 1,000 volunteers who helped looked for Aliayah. Her search turned up cold and left her frustrated, like many others who want to help.
"You can't just disappear like that," she said.
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Authorities searching for missing three year old girl
The search continues in Lewis County for a missing three year-old girl who seems to have vanished from her home.

Emergency crews spent nearly 12 hours Saturday searching for Aliayah Lunsford, and they say they plan to continue the search until they can find answers for her family.

Police began searching for Aliayah around 11:30 a.m. Saturday after her family reported her missing from her south Weston home. K-9 units from both Lumberport and the South Charleston State Police Detachment combed the area for any sign of the 3-year-old, and police say one dog lead them down the street and near the banks of the West Fork River.
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Lewis County officials are looking for three year old girl
Lewis County officials are looking for a 3-year-old girl who was last seen Saturday morning at her home near Weston.
According to Sgt. Mike Posey of the Lewis County Sheriff's Department, the little girl was wearing purple "Dora the Explorer" pajamas and a pink princess sweatshirt.
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Community comes together to look for missing girl
The search continues for a three-year-old Lewis County girl who has been missing since Saturday.
More than 1,000 volunteers have joined police in combing the streets trying to find Aliayah Lunsford.
It seems as though Aliayah disappeared into thin air Saturday. Dogs can't track her scent and police don't have any clues as to where she could be, but that hasn't stopped the community from coming out to look for the girl.
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Search still on for missing girl in Lewis County
The search for three year-old Aliayah Lunsford continues with the FBI joining the investigation. Authorities still have no leads in the disappearance as the search continues on land and in the West Fork River.
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Search continues for three year old girl
Authorities continued to search Monday for a 3-year-old girl who went missing from her Lewis County home over the weekend.
Police say Aliayah Lunsford's family reported her missing from her Bendale home just 150 yards from the West Fork River on Saturday morning. Her mother, Lena Lunsford, told WDTV-TV that she went to wake the child at 9:30 a.m., and she was gone.
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3 year old girl missing in Lewis County
 
K-9s, volunteers, police search in WV for three year old
K-9 dogs and hundreds of volunteers have joined authorities in West Virginia to look for a missing 3-year-old girl, but a sheriff's department lieutenant said in the two days since she was last seen that "we haven't come up with anything."
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Search for missing girl enters 4th day
Authorities searched again Tuesday for a 3-year-old Lewis County girl in what a national expert called an aggressive and extraordinary four-day effort.
Aliayah Lunsford vanished from her home in Bendale Saturday morning, and hundreds of people have been helping local, state and federal authorities try to find her.
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GSC volunteers needed in search for missing girl
A call has been put out to the Glenville State College community for volunteers to help in the search for three-year-old Aliayah Lunsford in Lewis County. The child has been missing since Saturday morning when her mother went to wake her up and she wasn’t there.
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Crews still covering ground, water looking for missing three year old
Multiple law enforcement officials and volunteers continue to search for a 3-year-old Weston girl who has been missing since Saturday morning from her Dennison Street home.
"We have no leads," Lewis County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Mike Posey said Monday afternoon at the Bendale Church. "Hopefully, something will break."
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Search for missing girl in fourth day
The search for a missing 3-year-old girl from Lewis County is in its fourth day.
Police say Aliayah Lunsford's mother reported her missing from their Bendale home Saturday morning.
Lena Lunsford said she'd checked on her daughter about three hours before she realized she had vanished.
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Expert: Search for missing girl extraordinary
Authorities searched again Tuesday for a 3-year-old Lewis County girl in what a national expert called an aggressive and extraordinary four-day effort.

Aliayah Lunsford vanished from her home in Bendale Saturday morning, and hundreds of people have been helping local, state and federal authorities try to find her.
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Search for missing girl continues in "very confined" area
A collaborative effort was the theme of a news conference about the missing 3-year-old W.Va. girl.
The search for Aliayah Lunsford entered in its fourth day Tuesday. She vanished from her Bendale home Saturday.

"We’re trying hard to not miss anything we’re bringing in experts who have worked this type of matter, do it on regular basis that’ll help us in terms of helping where we’ve been and where we need to go," said John Hambrick, special agent with the FBI.
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Searchers for young girl reorganizing
Police in Lewis County are repeating their steps as they continue to search for a young girl from the community of Bendale.
Aliayah Lunsford, 3, was last seen early Saturday morning by her mother.
Lewis County Sheriff's Dept. Sgt. Mike Posey told MetroNews Tuesday afternoon investigators were planning on going door-to-door again in the small community south of Weston. Divers were also back in the nearby West Fork River.
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Officials still hoping to locate missing girl
A couple thousand volunteers and several law enforcement agencies have been involved in the search for a 3-year-old girl who turned up missing from her family's home on Saturday morning.
Officials remain hopeful they will find Aliayah (uh-LEE-uh) Lunsford, who was last seen at her home in the small community of Bendale outside Weston at 6:30 a.m. that day.
Although the Lewis County Sheriff's Department is leading the investigation, the FBI is taking a larger role.
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FBI joins search for missing girl
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has joined in the search for 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford missing since Saturday morning. The FBI will aid in a specialized search of approximately one quarter of a mile around the Dennison Street home in South Weston.
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Search for missing girl now in 5th day
Authorities remain tight lipped about any details of their investigation as the search for a missing 3-year-old girl from Lewis County enters a fifth day.
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Aliayah Lunsford press conference 9/28
The search for a missing 3 year old Lewis County girl has been underway since Saturday. Investigators and volunteers are continuing to search for Aliayah Lunsford as if she is still alive.
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Lewis County girl missing
Almost five days later and the Lunsford home in Lewis County is now a crime scene.
The home in which Aliayah Lunsford, 3, lived is where her mother said she was last seen wearing her purple pajamas.
But some question if it should've been turned into a crime scene much earlier and if police missed out on crucial evidence. The FBI, which took over the investigation Wednesday, doesn't think so.
"You can Monday morning quarterback almost any effort, but I would not make that statement," Special Agent John Hambrick said.
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There are no clues. She just disappeared
Police and FBI are desperately hunting for a three-year-old girl who went missing from her bedroom five days ago..
Aaliyah Lunsford, disappeared from her home Saturday morning in West Virginia.
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Massive search under way for missing W. Va. girl
Authorities are searching for a missing 3-year-old West Virginia girl in what a national expert called an aggressive and extraordinary effort to find her.

Aliayah Lunsford disappeared from her home in Bendale, W.Va., Saturday morning, and hundreds of people have been helping local, state and federal authorities try to locate her.
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Day six of search for missing girl
Denzil McHenry's home sits directly across from the Lunsford home on Dennison Street. But he remembers it usually being a quiet home.
"It's weird if you have five kids and you never see them out playing," he said.
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FBI Press Conference 9/29

Neighbors concerned for missing girl's safety
The disappearance of 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford has turned the small town of Bendale upside down.

"Bendale has never had an incident like this before; hopefully never will again," says Jeanie Stutler, a Dennison Street resident.

The situation is bringing thousands to Dennison Street.

"The volunteers have been around our house, and actually, we've had authorities in our house, coming to speak with us and take statements. They're trying diligently to find her and get to the bottom of this situation," she says.

But for now, they don't have many clues to go on.
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Search is still on for missing girl
A 3-year-old, little girl,Aliayah Lunsford, from the Bendale area of Weston has been missing since Saturday morning. By Saturday afternoon a massive search was underway and by Sunday evening more than 1,200 people helped in the search for the little girl as well as K-9 dogs, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
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Aliayah Lunsford: Neighbor says mom never asked about missing daughter
Aliayah Lunsford, 3, has been missing since September 28, from her Weston, West Virginia home and the investigation has been very quiet.

News12 has found out some new information about the case and says they have talked to a neighbor that lives across the street and said Aliayah's mom never asked him about her.

The neighbor, Denzil McHenry says he was working on his yard all morning and she never came over and asked him if she had seen her or heard anything going on across the street.
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Candlelight vigil held for missing child
As the search continues for Aliayah Lunsford, folks met up Thursday night to sing, pray and tell stories. The community and supporters had a candlelight vigil to show her the way back home.

"We were on Facebook Saturday, and about an hour after that we were up here. I just thought it would take, you know, a couple minutes to find her," said Margaret Blake.
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Aliayah Lunsford still missing on day 7
Seven days have gone by without locating Aliayah Lunsford, 3. And with the Friday weather cool-down, the search is turning desperate.
"That's a long time for a child to survive in this kind of environment without food, water and shelter and exposed to the elements," FBI Special Agent Jeff Killeen said.
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FBI: Few leads in case of missing girl
Federal, state and local officials continued to comb the Bendale area of Lewis County Wednesday searching for a three-year-old girl who went missing over the weekend, but investigators revealed few new leads or breaks in the case.

Aliayah Lunsford was last seen Saturday morning by her mother. Since then, members of the community have joined law enforcement officials to search for Lunsford who may have wandered off from her home
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Candlelight vigil held for Aliayah Lunsford
After almost a week of searching for Aliayah Lunsford, the three year old Lewis County girl missing since Saturday, the Weston community offered a show of support Thursday night with a candlelight vigil.
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