Posted on 01/30/2005 3:03:13 PM PST by nuconvert
Police Find Body of Missing Indiana Girl
Sunday, January 30, 2005
CROTHERSVILLE, Ind. — The body of a missing 10-year-old girl was discovered by a police officer on patrol Sunday, five days after she disappeared while returning home from an errand, authorities said.
A state trooper on patrol found the body of Katlyn "Katie" Collman (search), 10, in a stream in a wooded area about five miles north of Seymour, state police Sgt. Jerry Goodin said at a news conference.
Details of how the girl died were not released. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday in Louisville, Ky., Goodin said.
Authorities issued an Amber Alert (search) for Collman on Thursday, two days after her disappearance. Her parents issued a public appeal for her safe return on Friday, the same day authorities released a composite sketch of a young man in a truck whom investigators believed had abducted the girl. The sketch sparked a rash of telephone tips, but none that provided solid information.
"This is saddening day for law enforcement officials," Goodin said. "We've come to know Katie. It hits everyone very hard."
Authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information in the case.
No family members spoke during a news conference at the Vernon Township Fire Department in Crothersville, which has served as the command post for agencies that mobilized to search for the girl. It was there that Collman's parents, Angie Collman and John Neace, issued a written statement Friday appealing for their daughter's safe return.
"Please do not harm her. We ask that you just drop her off anywhere so that she may return to a family and community that loves her very much and misses her dearly," the parents' statement said.
Terry Goodin, superintendent of the Crothersville schools, said Katie "always had a smile on
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D*mn it.
Sad.
May God bless and keep her sweet, little soul.
RIP, prayers.
Sad ending.
She is in a good place right now.. Better then down here.
We say that and believe it...
but we've had our childhood
and she was robbed.
Most likely the killer will be someone Illinois's lenient system already released from a light sentence for child rape or murder. Some 28 year old man brutally killed a 14 year old girl --- and was let go after only a 20 year (life --- no joke) sentence he would only be about 48 years old now --- it could have been him.
My thoughts exactly....Crothersville is the epitome of a small town "safe" environment.....If a child is not safe there,........ well, it's just very unsettling.
God be with her family, such a d@#$n shame.
Oh God.
This is nothing more then a test, a soul in a skin box.. I look at it as she may have been robbed of her childhood, thats just more time for her to be with god. The people we should be upset for is her family. She is knows more about god and religon now then any of us.
You're right: it's not safe anywhere in actuality.
I hope she was not a pedophile's victim.
$^$&!
Damn. I got the automatic Amber Alert on her from my ISP a few days ago. May she rest in peace.
Why Illinois? This crime took place in Indiana.
*sigh* The problem is universal...
Can someone tell me why she was reported missing on Tuesday, but the Amber Alert was not issued until Thursday?
Katlyn was reported missing at 8 o'clock Tuesday night. She was last seen four hours earlier near a store and Crothersville Community School at the corner of Preston and Oak in Crothersville.
An Amber Alert was issued for Katlyn at 1:15 p.m. Thursday.
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=2865083&nav=0RZEVfgw
I wondered, too.
"Goodin said authorities waited two days to issue an Amber Alert for Collman because they needed a lead in her disappearance. Alert criteria say authorities must have a lead on a missing child's whereabouts before an alert can be issued.
Once police received a description of a truck — a white Ford F-150 pickup truck about 15 years old that appeared to be clean and well-maintained — they issued the alert, Goodin said."
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