Posted on 03/01/2005 6:28:07 AM PST by MisterRepublican
HOMOSASSA, Fla. — The full-scale search for a missing 9-year-old girl ended its final day as law enforcement officers turned to child abduction experts for help.
Investigators and hundreds of volunteer searchers have uncovered little evidence during five days of scouring the rural area where Jessica Lunsford disappeared, and the full-scale search was suspended Monday afternoon.
"To continue this, we would be spinning our wheels," said Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy.
Instead, law enforcement officers were turning to 20 experts from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help crack the case. They planned to focus on a three-quarter mile radius area around Jessica's home.
Jessica's father described the change as a second phase of the investigation. After making a plea for her safe return while choking back tears, he expressed confidence that his daughter would come home.
"Just drop her off. I'll come get her," Mark Lunsford answered when asked what he would say to whoever had Jessica. "I know whoever has got Jessie, they have to have a heart."
He also expressed gratitude for the outpouring of support. "It's been overwhelming, the people that have shown up," he said. "It makes me feel real good to know everyone's trying to help me out."
Lunsford said he remains convinced that his daughter did not leave home voluntarily even though authorities have uncovered no evidence she was abducted. He said it's unlikely Jessica was lured away.
"She just didn't go with strangers," Lunsford said. He said authorities also are looking for a stuffed purple dolphin missing from his daughter's room.
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Let me give you the nexus of my profiling the teeth of Mark Lunsford.
Understand that I do this for a living.
Noticing that he has teeth that could indicate that he had a meth problem could lead the investigation into who he knew in the drug world who would possibly take the daughter for money or revenge. It's an avenue of investigation.
Noticing that he and his mother looked to be spending more attention to their clothing and several pieces of clothing were new as well as new hair color would leave me to question if they knew that their daughter wasn't coming home and were spending the donated money.
I was not accusing anyone of anything, but until 5:30 this evening everyone was a suspect and we are looking at possible clues.
They will probably find binoculars in the home of Couley's sister. We will probably find out that Jessica's father often left the home late at night to go to the girlfriend'w house and the perp knew that pattern.
Look how things twisted and turned in this investigation when we learned that the grandfather had a criminal past.
These are all clues that can lead to a conclusion. They aren't slanderous, they are part of an investigation.
Don't post to me....ever again. I'm telling you for the second time.
I'm willing to forget it ... but it was singularly the ugliest incident I have experinced online. We were dealing with people who were bent on a pedophile's release. It was sick!
Keep up the good work.
It isn't sliming when the perp has confessed (or, as in the other case being referenced, Westerfield, when a mountain of evidence points a veritable neon sign at him).
Et tu, Bunny?
All valid points. Logically stated, no personal attacks. Works for me. No mention of a mullet...THAT really cheesed me! There's investigation, and then there's supposition. Naturally, since you do this for a living, your word carries more weight than us Miss Marples! Thanks for explaining.
It was a good thread till it go hi-jacked. LOL.
Greta has Couley's old boss on and he fired Couley for writing a love letter to a 14 year old employee.
I don't dislike you ... but you must admit that was really ugly. And you affect the name Bunny when you know I was always "BS". You are a classic on revisionist history.
The Westerfield case was a lesson in the deepest pits of online existence, Nevertheless, Ella Minnow was right in both cases ... that one and this.
Who do you think the 3 people in the white toyota are that they issued the bolo for?
IMHO, sliming is ... well, sliming.
Not unlike what's being done to fellow freepers on this thread.
Thanks, I tuned in.
I don't want to rehash it, but EllaMinnow has a valid perspective and others who don't know the story really aren't in a position to make (false) equivalencies.
Justice
Saw that. He also said the sa,e thing that several here had said. People need to know where these perverts are. And that is the truth. So many offenders in such a small area!
Would you like for me to make a list of the things I've been called this very day on the Terri threads?
My lord, FR has gone insane.
I went through at least 6 months of freepmailed porn and death threats from the westerfield groupies, and I didn't run to the mods and tattletale.
If using someone's own words - that are posted online for anyone in the world to read - is sliming them, then I'm sliming.
You and I don't hit abuse, I notice.
But boy! Did we get falsely accused of doing it time and again.
LOL
I like to let the remarks stand (on whatever topic).
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