Ten-year-old Lindsey Baum was last seen Friday evening, just before she set out for a five-block walk home from a friend's house in McCleary.
MCCLEARY -
Nearly a week after her disappearance, there's still no sign of missing 10-year old Lindsey Baum.
Detectives say they're now taking a closer look at her computer and how she may have used the Internet before she vanished.
No one has seen Lindsey since last Friday night when she left a friend's house in McCleary to walk home.
Today local residents handed out more flyers with Lindsey's picture.
One local family who hasn't given up is selling cupcakes to raise money for Lindsey's family.
Loretta McCarty says she's doing it because she loves Lindsey and wanted to do something to help.
"Anything that'll help," said McCarty. "Anything."
Others in the close-knit community of McCleary continued passing out flyers with Lindsey's picture to passing motorists.
Duane Norris says he'll stay on the streets handing out the flyers until Lindsey is found or until someone tells him to stop.
"I don't know if more tips are coming in or not," Norris said. "But you know, all it takes is the right one."
"We're going to continue to have cops on the street through the weekend," says Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott, "through the holiday, interviewing people and doing what we have to do."
Scott says even though a physical search has been called off in McCleary, an intense investigation will continue into the girl's disappearance.
"We're taking police officers and putting them on the street to follow up on the stack of tips we've received," said Scott.
Authorities expect Lindsey's father to arrive in town Thursday night or Friday. He's in the military service, stationed in Tennessee. Police hope he may be able to share new information with them to help them solve the disappearance.
We're looking at what's being said on the Internet. Looking at some of the communication that's being done in the community. The people that live here, the friends, the family, the neighbors, are the people that know this community better than you, than I, than any of the officers working it," said Scott. "So it's talking to them and hopefully prompting someone's memory and dragging out that seemingly meaningless piece of information that they have that's going to unravel this mystery."
Detectives say they're now taking a closer look at her computer and how she may have used the Internet before she vanished.
No one has seen Lindsey since last Friday night when she left a friend's house in McCleary to walk home.
Today local residents handed out more flyers with Lindsey's picture.
One local family who hasn't given up is selling cupcakes to raise money for Lindsey's family.
Loretta McCarty says she's doing it because she loves Lindsey and wanted to do something to help.
"Anything that'll help," said McCarty. "Anything."
Others in the close-knit community of McCleary continued passing out flyers with Lindsey's picture to passing motorists.
Duane Norris says he'll stay on the streets handing out the flyers until Lindsey is found or until someone tells him to stop.
"I don't know if more tips are coming in or not," Norris said. "But you know, all it takes is the right one."
"We're going to continue to have cops on the street through the weekend," says Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott, "through the holiday, interviewing people and doing what we have to do."
Scott says even though a physical search has been called off in McCleary, an intense investigation will continue into the girl's disappearance.
"We're taking police officers and putting them on the street to follow up on the stack of tips we've received," said Scott.
Authorities expect Lindsey's father to arrive in town Thursday night or Friday. He's in the military service, stationed in Tennessee. Police hope he may be able to share new information with them to help them solve the disappearance.
We're looking at what's being said on the Internet. Looking at some of the communication that's being done in the community. The people that live here, the friends, the family, the neighbors, are the people that know this community better than you, than I, than any of the officers working it," said Scott. "So it's talking to them and hopefully prompting someone's memory and dragging out that seemingly meaningless piece of information that they have that's going to unravel this mystery."
