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Search Effort For McCleary Girl Doubles
Posted: 3:10 pm PDT June 28, 2009
Updated: 9:51 am PDT June 30, 2009
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On Monday, Lindsey's mother, Melissa Baum, said she believes her daughter was abducted as she walked home.

&#8220;Each hour that goes by, I am starting to get more and more panicky,&#8221; said Baum. She said Lindsey wanted to spend the night at a friend&#8217;s house about six blocks from her own home, but her friend&#8217;s mother, Kara Kampen, told her no.

&#8220;We're convinced somebody took her," Baum said.

Scott said his department is not yet ready to conclude that Lindsey was abducted because there is no evidence to indicate that's what occurred.

Meanwhile, candlelight prayer vigils will be held Tuesday night in both McCleary and a neighboring town, Elma.

Article:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19886572/detail.html
 
CANS Alert Issued for 10 Year Old Washington Girl
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Code Amber News Service (CANS) issued this Missing Endangered person Alert after the girl went missing on Friday evening (06-26) while walking home from a friends house in McCleary Washington. McCleary is a small town of about 1,500 residents and is about 15 miles west of Olympia. There is no evidence of foul play in this case but the FBI is joining the investigation and search today (Monday 06-29). The FBI will also be bringing in additional law enforcement personnel to help in the investigation and search. No Amber Alert has been issued in this case.

Article:
http://codeamber.org/baumwa/wa_062909_1207_CANS_alert_baum.php
 
Search for missing girl includes aircraft, door-to-door
MCCLEARY: No leads days after 10-year-old vanished
Published June 30, 2009
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The last person to see Lindsey was a resident driving through town who saw her walking on Maple Street between Fifth and Sixth streets around 9:15 p.m. &#8211; about the halfway point between the two homes, Scott said.

Investigators have reviewed surveillance video from the downtown Shell Station that Lindsey would have walked by on the way to Mommsen Road, but it turned up nothing, Scott said. Detectives are waiting for additional video surveillance from local businesses.

Kempen said her daughter Michaela had spent Friday with Lindsey and a group of other girls, swimming at a friend&#8217;s pool before they returned to the home on Maple Street.

Linda Cunningham, owner of McCleary Video, said she remembers Lindsey coming into her store with a group of friends to rent movies around 8:15 Friday night. &#8220;They were all laughing and joking and having a good time.&#8221;

Investigators have taken Lindsey&#8217;s computer into evidence, Scott added. Police have checked her MySpace page and the phone numbers she dialed and received on her cell phone without finding any new leads, he said.

Photos: Massive search continues for missing McCleary girl
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/v-standalone/story/896613.html

Article:
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/896613.html
 
Where is Lindsey Baum? Police, FBI Search for 10-Year-Old
Girl's Mother Frantic After Lindsey Never Made it Home From a Friend's House
June 30, 2009
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Baum said 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.

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 daughter.

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.

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.

Scott said that there were a few businesses located just off the street Lindsey would have used to get home, and while the little girl did not appear in any of the videos, police have received clues about who was in the area at the time she disappeared.

VIDEO: Washington Police Search For Missing Girl
FBI joins the search for 10-year-old Lindsey Baum who vanished walking home.
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7969243

Photo: Where is Lindsey Baum? Police, FBI Search for 10-Year-Old: Girl's Mother Frantic After
http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/abc_lindsey_baum_090630

Article:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7966924&page=1
 
McCleary&#8217;s still searching
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:49 AM PDT
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Lindsey was leaving a friend&#8217;s house about four blocks away between 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Friday, traveling from Maple Street to Mommsen Road. Scott said a neighbor spotted her &#8220;two-thirds of the way home,&#8221; still on Maple Street.

&#8220;We have her coming back from the residence alone consistent with the friend and friend&#8217;s family,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;We cannot put her to the main street here or to the street in front of her house. This wasn&#8217;t somebody who said she saw someone who looks like (Lindsey) or might have been; she was very confident it was Lindsey because she knew her and was on her way to work.&#8221;

&#8220;She wasn&#8217;t intentionally supposed to be alone,&#8221; Melissa Baum said. &#8220;She was with a friend and was supposed to come back together. And it was a fluke because normally she would have her cell phone with her. She takes her cell phone everywhere.&#8221;

But the cell phone battery was dead and she plugged it in five minutes before leaving.

Lindsey turns 11 years old on July 7. The whole family wants her home for her birthday.

Melissa Baum talks to a television reporter in front of her home while waiting for news on her 10-year-old daughter Lindsey, who disappeared Friday and has yet to be found despite a massive search. Next to her is Lindsey&#8217;s 9-year-old cousin Kimberly Taylor. &#8220;I know she&#8217;s alive,&#8221; Kimberly said. &#8220;I just know it.&#8221;
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Article:
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/06/30/local_news/doc4a4a53f8addf4694664243.txt
 
NO LEADS
Search for missing girl includes aircraft, door-to-door
MCCLEARY: No leads days after 10-year-old vanished
Published: 06/30/09 6:35 am
Updated: 06/30/09 5:49 pm
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The last person to see Lindsey was a resident driving through town who saw her walking on Maple Street between Fifth and Sixth streets around 9:15 p.m. &#8211; about the halfway point between the two homes, Scott said. People said light was waning but the sun hadn&#8217;t gone down.

Investigators have reviewed surveillance video from the downtown Shell Station that Lindsey would have walked by on the way to Mommsen Road, but it turned up nothing, Scott said. Detectives are waiting for additional video surveillance from local businesses.

Linda Cunningham, owner of McCleary Video, said she remembers Lindsey coming into her store with a group of friends to rent movies around 8:15 Friday night. &#8220;They were all laughing and joking and having a good time.&#8221;

Investigators have taken Lindsey&#8217;s computer into evidence, Scott added. Police have checked her MySpace page and the phone numbers she dialed and received on her cell phone without finding any new leads, he said.

Article:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/updates/story/795384.html
 
MASSIVE OPERATION
Search effort for missing McCleary girl doubling today
Published: 06/30/09 10:08 am
Updated: 06/30/09 10:20 am
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A field operations vehicle arrived at the McCleary Police Department in Grays Harbor County Tuesday morning as crews prepared to resume the search.

Since Friday, police and FBI agents have been stopping cars, volunteers handed out fliers and Thurston County dive teams have searched local creeks. Other officers took the contents out Dumpsters looking for clues.

On Monday, K-9 units, search volunteers, police and a helicopter looked all day for the girl but found no sign of her.

Article:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/updates/story/795723.html
 
Social networking sites used in search for Lindsey Baum, missing WA girl
June 30, 6:32 PM
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Lindsey Baum, a 10-year-old Washington state girl, has been missing since the evening of Friday, June 26. Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, individual blogs, and the eHow community forums are all being used to get the word out about her disappearance.

Not long ago, people counted on radio and television news and newspapers to communicate the details and contact information of missing children.

Article:
http://www.examiner.com/x-14172-Onl...ed-in-search-for-Lindsey-Baum-missing-WA-girl
 
Candlelight vigil for missing McCleary WA girl
Friends and townspeople gathered Tuesday night in the small Western Washington community of McCleary in a candlelight vigil for a missing 10-year-old girl.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 11:22 PM
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Friends and townspeople gathered Tuesday night in the small Western Washington community of McCleary in a candlelight vigil for a missing 10-year-old girl.

Earlier in the day, the search continued for Lindsey Baum, both in town and on nearby trails as searchers on horseback checked areas they could reach.

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 8:30-10 Friday night when the little girl failed to return home from a friend's house.

Article:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009405095_apwamissinggirl2ndldwritethru.html
 
State Patrol plane helps search McCleary for missing girl
Published July 01, 2009
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A Washington State Patrol airplane was used Tuesday in the search for 10-year-old Lindsey Baum, who disappeared Friday night, said Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott.

Scott said investigators don&#8217;t have concrete evidence that she was abducted.

About 30 ground searchers and 30 law enforcement officials were involved in the search Tuesday, he said.

Article:
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/897694.html
 
FBI Joins Search For Missing Washington 11-Year-Old Girl
July 1, 2009 4:35 a.m. EST
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But the child's mother doesn't believe her daughter is still in the area. Melissa Baum reportedly said she thinks someone took her daughter.

"And I just wish, I'm begging whoever had her will take her to a gas station or a grocery store or a restaurant where she can go to a pay phone and call 911 and say 'I'm Lindsey Baum' so we can trace her and find her," Melissa Baum said of her missing daughter, according to The Daily World. "Just let her go. Give her a chance. Let her come home."

FBI agents have joined the ongoing search. Police had earlier searched for Lindsey using dogs and the National Guard has also looked for the girl.

Although it has been four days since Lindsey disappeared, the mother has not given up hope.

Article:
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7015658178
 
Missing Washington Girl's Mother Thinks She's Alive, But Out of the Area
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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"I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s in McCleary. I don&#8217;t," Baum told The Daily World of Aberdeen, Wash. "Why would they keep her in McCleary? Whoever took her went on the freeway. There are three ways to get out of McCleary and all three ways there are freeways within five or 10 minutes."

Baum said she hasn't given up hope.

"I feel it in my heart that she&#8217;s alive," she told the paper. "I&#8217;m just trying really hard not to focus on the other things so I don&#8217;t fall apart. Because I know in my heart she&#8217;s still alive. But every hour that goes by, I just keep getting more and more anxious because how much time do we have left?"

Article:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529688,00.html?test=latestnews
 
Expert: Missing girl likely went with someone she knew
09:58 PM PDT on Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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"Based on the information I have, it&#8217;s someone she possibly knows or is in the area, not outside the area," said Henry Schmidt, with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Schmidt, a retired sheriff from Wyoming, arrived in McCleary to assist with the search Sunday.

Schmidt said the majority of abducted children are taken by people they know.

He said statistically, most abducted children are murdered within 24 hours. But, he said, that doesn&#8217;t make searchers give up hope.

Investigators say both Lindsey's mom and the father of the friend at the home where Lindsey had just left have both voluntarily taken - and passed - polygraph tests, and they are not considered suspects.

VIDEO: Missing girl likely kidnapped
http://www.nwcn.com/video/index.html?nvid=376539

Article:
http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_070109WAB-mccleary-KS.260ea8b9.html
 
Search intensifies for missing 10-year old Washington girl
Published: July 1, 2009
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The missing-girl&#8217;s mother said she volunteered to take a polygraph late Tuesday, wanting to clear herself - although police tell us she is not a suspect.

&#8220;I don&#8217;t want people saying oh maybe the mom got mad at her and stashed her and now saying she ran away, I don&#8217;t want anything like that. I want everyone to know my daughter is missing,&#8221; said Melissa Baum, the missing-girl&#8217;s mother.

Four fruitless days of searching and researching the same areas have turned up few clues about Lindsey Baum&#8217;s disappearance.

Police say they will likely ratchet things back a little Wednesday, but they&#8217;re not giving up.

VIDEO INCLUDED IN ARTICLE: Residents of McCleary, Washington, held a candle light vigil for 10-year-old Lindsey Baum who has been missing since Friday afternoon.

Article:
http://www.counton2.com/cbd/news/na...or_missing_10-year_old_washington_girl/40240/
 
She&#8217;s no runaway, family says
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:13 PM PDT
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Her family is holding out hope for her return, especially by her 11th birthday, which is next Tuesday.
Melissa Baum said Lindsey&#8217;s birthday wish was for a digital camera so she could upload pictures to her computer.

She didn&#8217;t spend much time watching television but she loved using the computer, including the popular social networking site MySpace and hanging with her friends, according to her family. MySpace.com lists two Lindsey Baums in McCleary with MySpace pages.

One, with a picture of Lindsey&#8217;s pet German Shepherd on the page, is marked &#8220;private.&#8221; It lists her mood as &#8220;adored&#8221; and the name of her account as &#8220;DISTURBED.&#8221; But it gives no other public information.

A second MySpace account is more public. Her nickname there is TWILIGHT FREAK. She loved the popular &#8220;Twilight&#8221; series of books, love stories about teen-age vampires. And Stephen King novels. And S.E Hinton, who wrote &#8220;The Outsiders.&#8221;

Cryptically, within two hours of creating this second MySpace account in May, Baum allegedly wrote: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of nightmares lately and I have this bad feeling that something bad is gonna happen.&#8221;

&#8220;Lindsey was having a hard time this school year,&#8221; Melissa Baum said. &#8220;This was not a good year for her &#8212; with the divorce and everything.&#8221;

The face of missing 10-year-old Lindsey Baum is pasted to the side of the van that is serving as the Incident Command Center for her search effort.
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Article:
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/07/01/local_news/doc4a4ba94721f78989072462.txt
 
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