Truck Signs Used In Hunt For Lindsey Baum

MCCLEARY, Wash. -- Pictures posted on two trucks are being used in the investigation of a girl who has been missing since last summer.

Graham Trucking donated two trucks with pictures of Lindsey Baum that are parked in McCleary, where the girl lived, and a parking lot near Elma.

The truck in McCleary is parked on Simpson Avenue. The other truck is parked along State Route 8 at Heise Road east of Elma in the parking lot of Cabinet Distributors.

Volunteers and police have combed McCleary and surrounding locations but have not found evidence as to where the girl might be.

Baum was last seen in McCleary on June 26, 2009. She was 10 years old at the time of her disappearance.

Lindsey is 4 feet 9 inches tall, 80 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a light blue hooded pullover shirt and blue jeans.

Officials have not had any new developments in the case but ask anyone with information to contact the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s office at 866-915-8299 or send an e-mail to: soadmin@co.grays-harbor.wa.us.

FBI Joins Search for Missing 10-Year-Old-Girl

Seattle Times- FBI agents have joined the search for a 10-year-old Grays Harbor County girl missing since Friday night.

Lindsey Baum was last seen walking home from a friend's house about six blocks from her home in the small town of McCleary.

Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott says law-enforcement officers were canvassing the city Sunday. He says search-and-rescue volunteers and others combed the area Saturday where the girl was last seen but "didn't yield anything."

Scott says there's no evidence of foul play, but his agency is "beginning to investigate with that possibility in mind."

Officers were re-interviewing neighbors to see whether any clues had been missed in earlier canvassing by volunteers, Scott said.

The girl's mother reported her missing Friday night.

"I just need my daughter home," Melissa Baum told The Aberdeen Daily World.

She said she's afraid someone has taken her daughter away from McCleary, a town of about 1,500.

McCleary Police Chief George Crumb told the newspaper that while his department hoped she ran off, "she's been gone far too long."

"This is a small town. These things don't happen. And yet here they are," Melissa McCann, a family friend told KOMO-TV. "She comes from her friend's [house] a lot, so it doesn't make sense that she didn't show up at home. We're just baffled."