It is very customary for LE to give family members hope. Hope is what is keeping them going.
I pray this beautiful little baby girl is found alive. Each minute that passes without finding her has to be gut wrenching for family, and LE.
Imo, it all depends on the motive for taking her, but to murder her own mother means she is in a very dangerous situation with a very violent offender, and LE painfully knows that all too well. Whoever has kidnapped her knows they have nothing to lose now.
There is so much evil in the world now, including evil motives for kidnapping little children. The little victims seem to be younger, and younger recently.
Jmho