10 Year Old Lindsey J. Baum Missing Since Friday, June 26, 2009 in McCleary, WA
10 year old Lindsey J. Baum has been missing since Friday night, June 26, 2009 at approximately 9:15 pm in McCleary, WA. Lindsey J. Baum was last seen Friday night walking home on Maple Street from a friend’s house. The distance was only about four blocks, she never arrived home. Lindsey has no history of running away.
Lindsey J. Baum Description:
- 4-foot 9-inches tall
- 80 pounds
- brown hair
- brown eyes
- She was last seen wearing a grey pullover hoodie with blue jeans and black shoes.
- McCleary Police say she doesn’t have a history of running away, and since there are fewer than 2,000 people in town, someone would recognize her if she were walking the streets.
If anyone has any information regarding the whereabouts of Lindsey, please call Grays Harbor E911 Center at 360-533-8765 or McCleary Police at 360-495-3107
UPDATE I: Search for Missing Lindsey Baum enters Second Day
As the search for a missing 10-year-old girl stretched into its second day in this small mill town, police and family are beginning to fear she may have been kidnapped.
10 year old Lindsey Baum Missing
Lindsey J. Baum was last seen between 9 and 10 p.m. Friday when she left her friend’s home on Maple Street, where she had been visiting, said Dave Pimentel of the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office.
The police are hesitant to refer to the missing girl’s disappearance a case of foul play; however, the more time goes by, the greater the possibility.
The search was resumed Sunday at 6 a.m., but so far with the same futile result as the day before.
Police are hesitant to call the girl’s disappearance a case of foul play just yet, but the girl’s family fears the worst.
“I’ve tried to keep the thought of somebody grabbing her out of my mind,” says her mother, Melissa Baum.
Search on for missing McCleary girl
Melissa Baum said Lindsey wasn’t angry Friday night, and left without money, a change of clothes or her cellphone. Police have searched for the girl in the homes of her friends, in case she had been “hiding out.”
“She wouldn’t have run away,” Baum said, her voice hoarse. “If she had been hiding she would have come out by now. She can’t hide that long, she loves to talk.”
National Center of Missing & Exploited Children: Lindsey J. Baum
UPDATE II: FBI Joins the Search for Missing Lindsey Baum
The FBI has now joined the investigation and search for missing 10 yea old Lindsey Baum. At this point between the short walk between her home and her friends house and the fact that the community was so small, it is hard to believe that Lindsey did not know her abductor.
The FBI has joined the search for a 10-year-old girl who vanished Friday while walking home from a friend’s house in this small mill town.
Officials said the federal crime-busting bureau was brought in because of its expertise and experience in solving missing children cases. The FBI also will be bringing in more law enforcement personnel to assist.
As the search for 10-year-old Lindsey J. Baum stretched into its second day Sunday, police and family – along with the whole town – are baffled and concerned at the girl’s disappearance in a town where everyone knows their neighbors.
UPDATE III: CANS Alert Issued for 10 Year Old Washington Girl