Lindsey Baum -- Missing 6/26/09

Thanks J4A, that's all i could find too.... AJ pointed out to me that it might be too early to tell - as it would require bone marrow identification and it's only been a little over 2 wks...

no high profile cases in that area come to mind for missing adults...

OMG.. I might be reading to much into this but if they found remains of an unidentified person on Feb 19, and now they are doing a major push on, it seems to me that they may be her remains?????

It cud be coincidental however i wudnt be surprised if they think it is her ....

In the Caylee case we saw it take 8 days from the 11th to the 19th to identify Caylee. We know they worked around the clock and i am not sure what protocol they wud use in this case.. Also Caylees remains wud have been there for 6 months, where these remaons are almost 9 months (not sure if that makes a difff) but it may be harder or a longer process to extraxt the dna from this corpse from bone marrow??

None the less, it seems like they are under the idea that these remains are Lindseys..If so they may have found cliues at the scene qwhich have made them go bak and ask questions based on what they may have found...??

Here is an artice where they say the reamins are that of an adult male...

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:dCjjy977kbQJ:www.komonews.com/news/84777457.html+baum+%22toledo%22+lindsey&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca


also there were remains of a child and mother found over 10 yrs ago in that area that was deemed a murder and they havenever foud the father...

maybe its him?????????????????

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:ve_NC351TYMJ:www.co.cowlitz.wa.us/sheriff/unsolved/default.htm+remains+%22cowlitz%22&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

I still haven't heard anything about an identification of the body yet. I don't think LE believes it's her since they've stepped up efforts in the investigation recently and just doubled the reward for information from $10,000 to $20,000.

J4A, didn't they say the remains were from an adult male, and definitely not a child?

Someone will still get an answer to where their loved one is.......

Snaz wrote:J4A, didn't they say the remains were from an adult male, and definitely not a child?

Someone will still get an answer to where their loved one is.......

The police believe the remains belong to an adult, but said the gender, approximate age and identity of the remains has not been determined.

Officials continue push for new leads

Local and federal investigators plan to continue their push for new information into next week as they work on leads arising from recent interviews in the search for missing Lindsey Baum.

Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott said detectives and FBI agents have received huge amounts of information from McCleary residents as they work to create a “snapshot” of the rural town on the summer evening Lindsey disappeared.

“All of that’s helping us to more thoroughly investigate leads,” he said. “The focus of the case is much clearer.”

After a week of questioning residents, Scott said he hopes to keep extra officers from other regional departments around until next week to continue the recent drive for new evidence. He said deputies and FBI agents may conduct follow-up interviews beyond next week as information surfaces.

“It’s not like we’re going to just put the lid back on the box,” he said. “I don’t want to shut the stove off when we’ve got something cooking.”

Lindsey Baum went missing on June 26 while walking a short distance home from a friend’s house. Investigators have found no evidence in the past eight months to explain her disappearance.

Investigators are conducting their interviews based on recommendations from the FBI Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team, which recently reviewed the investigation and offered its expertise on the case.

“It’s doing exactly what the CARD team said,” Scott said of the recent interviews. “These are the techniques that have proved successful in their other cases.”

Scott said the recent interviews, which can last hours, allow residents to elaborate on their earlier statements to officers and provide new details.

He said investigators have been “pleasantly surprised” with the amount of detail many residents have been able to provide.

All of those details help “paint a picture” of the town on June 26.

“It’s like when Mount St. Helens blew,” he said. “People remember where they were and what they were doing. ... This was an emotional event for them.”

Scott said detectives are also asking residents about their theories on the case or rumors floating around the community.

“Now they’ve had a chance to think about it,” he said, later adding, “Everybody’s had a chance to play armchair investigator here. ... Some of (the ideas) seem plausible.”

As details come in, Scott said he and others felt the interviews were developing into new leads similar to other child abduction cases that were solved. Scott said he hopes and prays they can make a breakthrough in locating Lindsey.

“We are definitely making progress,” he said.

Law enforcement officials are asking anyone who might have any information about the whereabouts of Lindsey Baum to come forward with tips. Tips can be made by phone at 1-866-915-8299 or via e-mail at soadmin@co.grays-harbor.wa.us. A $20,000 reward is available for information leading to her.

http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2010/03/10/local_news/doc4b97feb8c5672122969959.txt

Special FBI Team Joins Hunt for Missing Girl
High-Tech Tools Join Old-Fashioned Police Work in Search for Lindsey Baum, 11

March 16, 2010





The disappearance last summer of 10-year-old Lindsey Baum continues to haunt her family and her small hometown of McCleary, Wash., pop. 1,500. Now the FBI has stepped in, deploying an array of cutting edge law enforcement techniques in an effort to crack the mystery.

Scott Baum hopes to see his missing 10-year-old before he's deployed to Iraq.The girl, who would now be 11 years old, disappeared on the evening of June 26, 2009. Melissa Baum, Lindsey's mother, is convinced she was kidnapped.

"To the person or persons who stole my daughter," reads an open letter Baum wrote to the kidnapper she imagines. "Please let my daughter go. She needs her family. I don't care who you are, I just want my Lindsay back safely."

Watch the full story tonight on "World News" and "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/lindsey-baum-missing-girl-fbi/story?id=10107104

Sources: Persons of interest ID'd in girl's disappearance

By KOMO Staff & ABC News
Story Updated: Mar 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM PDT



McCLEARY, Wash. -- A renewed investigative effort in the search for a 10-year-old girl who vanished last year has identified a dozen persons of interest, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Nightline reporters were given behind-the-scenes access to the FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) team, which has been leading the search for Lindsey Baum.

Lindsey disappeared while walking home from a friend's house last June.

Investigators from multiple agencies have spent months searching for the girl, and the FBI recently moved in a high-tech command center to coordinate efforts.

Agents with the CARD team have been checking hours of ATM security camera video taken from cash machines throughout McCleary and the surrounding area, looking for anything that seems out of place.

They have also been checking cell phone records to see who was in the area when Lindsey vanished.

"We can start putting a timeline together," FBI Assistant Director Kevin Perkins told Nightline. "And we may see that call and a certain cell phone and, perhaps, our missing individual coming together at a certain place at a certain time."

The agency also has profilers and psychologists analyzing evidence.

Detectives from the sheriff's department are working with the FBI to check new sites that might be connected to the case, and they're also re-searching sites checked previously.

The investigators are also interviewing most of the people in the town, hoping for new leads and watching for unease.

"We're looking for the whole picture, but there are sometimes when you get a gut reaction or gut feeling about a certain individual or their reaction to your questioning," sheriff's Det. Keith Peterson said.

Investigators have talked with more than two-thirds of the town's population.

Drawing on the interviews, searches, security camera video and cell phone data, the FBI has built a model and timeline of the day Lindsey was last seen.

Lindsey's mother, Melissa Baum, thinks someone is holding out.

"I guess what gets me is I know aliens didn't just beam her up and take her away," she said. "Somebody knows something."

Sources tell ABC news that 12 people identified as persons of interest in the case live inside and outside of McCleary, and at least two of those people are considered "high interest" by investigators.

While an arrest may not be imminent, police say the case is active and they are hopeful.

And Lindsey's mom is still spending every day working to find her daughter.

"I don't care who you are," she said. "I just want my Lindsey back safely."

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/88224357.html

Ten months later, Lindsey Baum's mom still hoping

By Keith Eldridge
Story Published: Apr 29, 2010 at 5:14 PM PDT



MCCLEARY, Wash. - Nearly a year after 10-year-old Lindsey Baum vanished while walking home at dusk, authorities are launching a renewed effort to figure out what happened to her.

Large pictures of Lindsey have been posted on Gordon Trucking semi rigs that drive up and down Washington state highways.

And a prominent photo has been posted alongside the highway in the small town of McCleary, where she disappeared on June 26, 2009.

The Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Office and the FBI are hoping those big photos, along with other new efforts - including a $25,000 reward - will help bring Lindsey home.

Local espresso stand employee Kristil Baun, like many other McCleary residents, hopes the new signs jog someone's memory.

"It's been a long time. I just hope it continues to bring it to people's attention, so when they are out and about, they have her picture in their mind," she says.

A local company, Cabinet Distributors, donated the high-profile photo of Lindsey alongside the highway in McCleary.

"Right on the freeway, and good exposure - so just a good way to let everybody know that she's still out there and needs to be found," says Teresa Andrews of Cabinet Distributors.

Along with the signs and the increase in the reward, a renewed investigative effort will be launched Monday.

FBI agents, sheriff's deputies and police detectives will be going back and interviewing some of the same people they talked to last month - and some people who've yet to be interviewed.

"We did develop information about people who we now know were in and around McCleary on June 26, 2009, during that time period we're focused on, that we didn't previously know about," says Undersheriff Rick Scott.

Investigators say there are several persons of interest - but no one has surfaced as a suspect.

Nevertheless, Lindsey's mother remains hopeful.

"I would still like everyone who was in the area on June 26th of last year to think back," says Melissa Baum. "I know it's been 10 months and four days, but maybe you don't realize (the importance of) something that you saw or heard."

The new effort is mainly door-to-door interviewing. But if needed, dogs and search teams are standing by - ready to help.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/92465749.html?

Two men sought in search for missing McCleary girl

by DREW MIKKELSEN / KING 5 News
NWCN.com
Posted on May 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM



McCLEARY, Wash. - Grays Harbor County investigators want to speak with two men seen on surveillance video the night a girl vanished in McCleary last June.

The men are not considered suspects in the disappearance of ten-year-old Lindsey Baum.

Police say they were seen entering a convenience store near the spot where Baum was last seen walking home from a friend's house June 26, 2009.

Investigators believe one of the men was driving a white Honda Ridgeline pickup truck.

Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott said investigators consider the men potential witnesses.

"Perhaps something they saw that's important to us was meaningless to them," said Scott.

Several dozen detectives are spending the week in McCleary conducting follow up interviews with other potential witnesses.

http://www.nwcn.com/news/Two-men-sought-in-search-for-missing-McCleary-girl-92704724.html

I hope some answers will come with this renewed search for Lindsey. Maybe someone will recognize these men and they will remember something out of place, or they could end up being suspects. These videos are proof that surveillance tapes should never be taped over. I know places that do it, but you just never know what they can hold. Did they not look at these tapes when Lindsey went missing?

Missing girl's mom now homeless

By KOMO Staff
Story Updated: May 12, 2010 at 6:29 PM PDT



TUMWATER, Wash. -- The mother of missing girl Lindsey Baum has new troubles, as not only has she lost her daughter; now she's lost her home.

"I never thought we'd be homeless, and we are," said Melissa Baum. She and her son can't afford another night in the Tumwater motel they've been staying.

"We have truly lost everything," she said.

Paralyzed by pain, Melissa Baum hasn't worked since her daughter Lindsey disappeared from McCleary while walking home last June.

"You feel like you're being suffocated every waking moment," Melissa Baum said.

She's survived on her son's Social Security, but that wasn't enough to remain in the home they rented before Lindsey vanished.

"What if she gets away and comes home... and we're not there?" Melissa Baum worried. "As hard as it was to walk by bedroom and see police tape and not go in there, she still had a room."

But Baum says her son with special needs could no longer cope in McCleary.

"He has horrible nightmares every night," she said.

Josh expresses guilt over fighting with Lindsey before she disappeared and not walking her home. His behavior problems have escalated and Baum says that prompted a relative who took them in to lock them out.

The Problem Solvers have paid for Baum to stay another two weeks at the motel. The extended stay gives Baum time to send her son back East for the summer to stay with his dad while she looks for work, a place to live, and her missing daughter.

"I would live in a hotel or car the rest of my life if it would bring my daughter home," she said.

Baum is working with the housing authority in Thurston County to find a subsidized apartment but says she's told there's little hope of an opening before July.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/93633999.html

"We have truly lost everything," she said.

"I would live in a hotel or car the rest of my life if it would bring my daughter home," she said.

Statements made and lives ruined all because of the monster/s that decided to take someone who didn't belong to them.

Crews Search Sewers, Canal For Missing McCleary Girl

Updated: 6:45 pm PDT May 25, 2010

MCCLEARY, Wash. -- Crews searched manhole covers and searched a canal in McCleary for missing 11-year-old Lindsey Baum.

Grays Habor County Undersheriff Rick Scott said it’s a “routine follow up search” for Baum who has been missing since June 26. They were searching the sewers near where Lindsay was last seen.

SLIDESHOW: Crews Search Sewers, Canal In McCleary

The FBI called Lindsey’s mom, Melissa Baum, Tuesday morning and informed her of the search, said Baum's friend Kam Burkey.

Burkey told KIRO 7 that divers had some new equipment to search the sewers that they had not used before. She said this was not the first search below ground.

Crews didn’t find anything, Burkey said.

Anyone with information on Baum’s disappearance should contact the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s office at 866-915-8299 or send an e-mail to: soadmin@co.grays-harbor.wa.us.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/23676081/detail.html#

Surely there's not much left of her if she's been deceased for this long...I pray that she is still walking amongst the living and doing well...There is still hope if nothing has been found...

That's right Estee. I'm still hoping she's alive too. It's sad that her mother and brother are homeless now or will be.

I agree, Gracie. What would make one care about a job in this situation? I will never be able to understand how these mothers function day to day, let alone trying to keep a job. Their entire world has fallen apart.......

Police Hope New Video Prompts Clues To Baum's Disappearance

Richard Thompson
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News South Sound Bureau Chief
Updated: 1:35 pm PDT June 3, 2010

MCCLEARY, Wash. -- The Grays Harbor Sheriff's Office has released video to KIRO 7 showing missing 11-year-old Lindsey Baum.

Detectives hope seeing the girl's mannerisms and hearing her voice in the video may help jar someone’s memory and lead to a tip that will help find Lindsey who vanished on the way home from a friend’s house in McCleary on June 26, 2009.

Read more: http://www.kirotv.com/news/23784360/detail.html

Go to the link to see the video.

Hopefully something will help find Lindsey

Does anyone know if the landfill was checked?