The family members and three men drove together to an area east of Interstate 15 off Sabre Springs Parkway. They hiked down around a dirt trail around an abandoned fenced-in water pump station.
"I just want to find my daughter," van Dam said.
The men fanned out from the path and trudged through 7-foot-high dried reeds along Los Penasquitos Canyon Creek and dipped walking sticks into the creeks and ponds.
Van Dam got on his stomach to try to look under a small concrete bridge. He climbed up and peered down into a large water tank, and dislodged a manhole cover to check inside. Other searchers looked in pipes and in high brush areas.
Volunteers also looked for areas where the ground was disturbed ---- signs that someone might have gone off the path.
Meanwhile, back at the van Dam family home, investigators took a bloodhound into Danielle's room to pick up her scent. They put a shirt belonging to Danielle on a stick and led the dog to the house next door,but not across the street to where a neighbor, who has been questioned in the case, lives
The family members and three men drove together to an area east of Interstate 15 off Sabre Springs Parkway. They hiked down around a dirt trail around an abandoned fenced-in water pump station.
"I just want to find my daughter," van Dam said.
The men fanned out from the path and trudged through 7-foot-high dried reeds along Los Penasquitos Canyon Creek and dipped walking sticks into the creeks and ponds.
No, Rheo, this is right near their house. Maybe about 2 miles west of their house.