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The remains of missing girl Baum, who disappeared in 2009, were found in September 2017 by hunters, and Baum was identified through a DNA match in follow-up investigation.
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An initial search was done after the remains were found last year, before the first snowfall. Last week, police said the last of the snow in the area had melted, prompting another search.
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Background of the case
Videos released in investigation
In May 2010, the Sheriff’s Office released surveillance video from a Shell gas station in McCleary showing a white truck as well as one of a man who went into the convenience store. It was recorded on the night of Baum’s disappearance.
According to the Sky Valley Chronicle.
Police said the man was not a suspect, but they wanted to talk to him as well as the people in the truck, a white Honda Ridgeline, to find out if they saw anything that could help with the investigation.
In October 2011, several search warrants were served at the business, storage unit and home of a man who police said was a person of interest in the case. The man's business was on the route Baum would have taken to get home the night she vanished.
In 2012, authorities
released surveillance video from a McCleary minimart, also recorded on the night Baum disappeared. Sheriff Scott said they had the video since the start of the investigation, but didn’t want to release it until they could investigate further.
In the video, two women are seen in the market talking to the person of interest who had told police he was not in McCleary the night Baum disappeared, though the video showed otherwise, MyNorthwest said. Police identified and interviewed the women, who turned out to be sisters from the McCleary area.
Age-progressed photo released in 2013
On June 26, 2013, four years to the day when Baum disappeared, an age-progressed photo done by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was released showing what Baum would look like at age 13. Baum's mother, Melissa Baum, helped by contributing photos of herself and Lindsey's father when they were roughly the same age.
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Baum would now be 19.
In February 2014, the age-progressed photo was added to Gordon Trucking trailers as part of the Washington State Patrol's Homeward Bound Program.
At that time, posters of Baum at age 10 had been traveling around the country on 10 Gordon Trucking trailers since 2010.
See home video of Lindsey below, then scroll down to continue reading.
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“When we heard of the link to the Shelton property, and its proximity to McCleary, and the nature of the paper work they found at the [Seattle home] … We immediately began to see if there’s anything that would link to our investigation,” Scott told KIRO 7 News last August.
There was a
$35,000 reward to find Baum.
Lindsey Baum found: Missing McCleary girl's remains found in Eastern Washington
I hope they put this old case back on the front burner! p.s. I use to be designated, "a well known member", but when we changed computers over, somehow I lost that designation along the way and had to start over .
