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Otto, thank you for the timeline and for your efforts..
As we all know, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Imo, when the tips was received about the boxlike SUV during canvassing. Priority should have been given to these tips. A red flag should have been immediately raised, imo..
Police re-canvass Evansdale for missing girls
October 18, 2012
Cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 11, and Elizabeth Collins, 9, disappeared July 13 while on a bike ride. Their bikes and Elizabeths purse and cell phone were found on a recreational trail along Meyers Lake.
After an extensive search of homes and wooded areas and a partial draining of the lake over the following week that turned up nothing, authorities declared the case an abduction.
Nothing was found the really stood out or was promising, Smock said. If we knew where they were at, wed go knocking on that door. Were still very hopeful; still very positive.
Authorities visited between 125 to 150 homes.
A rumor in town that air surveillance was ongoing is false, Smock said.
The decision was made two weeks ago to canvass the area again. Nothing in particular triggered the latest ground search, he said.
We continue to dig for more information, Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson said.
We continue to search for details that might have been overlooked.
http://wcfcourier.com/news/evansdal...cle_2c659ab8-1914-11e2-8c55-001a4bcf887a.html
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While the number of sex offenders who abduct and kill children is low, those offenders are the worst of the worst who need to be feared and understood and communities need to be ready with swift response to search for those kids when they are reported missing.
According to a study done in the state of Washington and with the U.S. Department of Justice,
44 percent of children will be dead in the first hour after abduction; 74 percent are killed within three hours.
Only 1 percent survive one day. Forty percent die before anyone reports them missing.
http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/va...cle_4d47027a-058c-11e3-a66f-0019bb2963f4.html
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For a week, law enforcement authorities classified the investigation as a missing persons case.
That changed on Friday, and now the case is called an abduction, something the girls families have pushed for since July 13.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ar...ieves-missing-Iowa-girls-alive?nclick_check=1