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SEARCH INTENSIFIES FOR MISSING CITRUS COUNTY (Fla.) GIRL (Jessica Lunsford, age 9) New Info
Bay News 9 ^ | Feb. 25, 2005 | Bay News 9

Posted on 02/25/2005 8:26:18 AM PST by varina davis

Search intensifies for missing Citrus County girl

Friday, February 25, 2005

Over 100 federal, state and local law officers are taking part, as the search for Jessica Lunsford continues.

The 9-year-old was last seen about 10 p.m. Wednesday. That's when authorities said her grandparents put her to bed in their Homosassa home.

They said her father Mark, who also lives there, returned home early Thursday to find her missing.

Today, authorities are beefing up the search for Lunsford.

"We've activated the CART Team which is the Child Abduction Response Team from the Tampa area," Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsey said. "We expect 20 to 25 additional investigators to hit the ground."

Search crews scoured the area around Lunsford's home Thursday using bloodhounds and helicopters.

Dawsey said the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is also getting involved.

He said even though family members are not suspected in Lunsford's disappearance, investigators interviewed them Thursday.

The search continued Thursday for Lunsford. "We're going through some basic investigation with them and we'll bring them back," Dawsey said. "Guess the real reason is we're looking at all avenues right now. It does not mean they're suspects by any means, but it was a very unique way the girl went missing and I'm not going to leave any stone unturned."

Lunsford is described as four-feet-ten-inches tall, weighing about 70 pounds with light brown shoulder length hair and brown eyes.

She was last seen wearing a pink nightgown and white silk shorts.

Meanwhile, Lunsford's father Mark and her granparents Ruth and Archie Lunsford held a news conference this morning pleading for her return.

"I ask you to please help me find my daughter and bring her home," Mark Lunsford said.

He also said his daughter has been with him since she was one-year-old and the last whereabout of her [Jessica] mother was in Ohio.

If you see Lunsford or know anything about her disappearance, call the sheriff's office at 352-726-1121 or call 911.


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KEYWORDS: florida; intensifies; jessica; jessicalunsford; lunsford; search
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Jessica still missing and clues are few. Whole community on alert.
1 posted on 02/25/2005 8:26:27 AM PST by varina davis
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I don't understand how this sort of thing happens.

How do someone just walk into your house and grab one of your children?

I don't get it.


2 posted on 02/25/2005 8:30:47 AM PST by l00rk3r
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To: l00rk3r

How do = How does


3 posted on 02/25/2005 8:31:08 AM PST by l00rk3r
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To: varina davis

Prayers.

I don't understand either but I hope they find her unharmed.


4 posted on 02/25/2005 8:38:05 AM PST by kcvl
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To: varina davis

Prayers for the little girl and her family.


5 posted on 02/25/2005 8:38:58 AM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: varina davis

I don't know about this one, but something stinks.


6 posted on 02/25/2005 8:43:02 AM PST by speed_addiction (Ninja's last words, "Hey guys. Watch me just flip out on that big dude over there!")
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To: varina davis
A picture of Jessica from the article:


7 posted on 02/25/2005 8:43:28 AM PST by KJC1
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To: l00rk3r
How do someone just walk into your house and grab one of your children?

Rare, but it happens. Look at Elizabeth Smart. Then look at the hell of suspicion they put the family through, and then that one handyman who died before he had been exonerated. Think about that, everyone, before you rush to judgement.
8 posted on 02/25/2005 8:45:40 AM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: l00rk3r

They'd have to be fast enough to dodge or outrun that .40 Corbon semi-jacketed hollow point first.


9 posted on 02/25/2005 8:51:52 AM PST by Dixie Pirate (Deo Vindice!)
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To: beezdotcom

Polly Klaas was taken from the bedroom of her home too.


10 posted on 02/25/2005 8:52:14 AM PST by KJC1
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To: beezdotcom
Look at Elizabeth Smart. Then look at the hell of suspicion they put the family through, and then that one handyman who died before he had been exonerated. Think about that, everyone, before you rush to judgement.

Good point. The Smart family in particular was dragged through every bit of slime reporters could think of. And none of it was true.

11 posted on 02/25/2005 8:53:43 AM PST by xJones
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To: beezdotcom

How do someone just walk into your house and grab one of your children?

If you had a hound or 2 (actually - 3) like I do, a cricket shifting it's weight gets the dogs up and into silent stealth/stalking, investigatory mode. They feed off each others fever and God help the soul that tries this in my place.


12 posted on 02/25/2005 9:04:20 AM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: beezdotcom; Dixie Pirate; KJC1; xJones
beezdotcom: Rare, but it happens. Look at Elizabeth Smart.

KJC1: Polly Klaas was taken from the bedroom of her home too.

xJones: Good point. The Smart family in particular was dragged through every bit of slime reporters could think of. And none of it was true.

Look, I'm single, never married, no bastard children, so I don't have any first hand experience with this, but I can't imagine that, if I did have a family, every door wouldn't be locked, there wouldn't be very large, very aggressive work dog in the house [preferably a mastiff], and there wouldn't be a 12 gauge shotgun by the side of my bed.

So I'd say the same thing to the Klaas & Smart families: How the hell did someone get inside your house in the first damned place?

You can't even take a nap around here for the sounds that the doors make when people open and close them.

13 posted on 02/25/2005 9:11:12 AM PST by l00rk3r
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Fox News:

She's found! In Ohio being debriefed.


14 posted on 02/25/2005 9:16:44 AM PST by windchime (Hillary: "I've always been a preying person")
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I believe the mother's been found not the girl...


15 posted on 02/25/2005 9:19:56 AM PST by pamlet
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Correction:

In continuing to listen......questioning MOTHER in Ohio. Child NOT found. Sorry.


16 posted on 02/25/2005 9:20:10 AM PST by windchime (Hillary: "I've always been a preying person")
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To: pamlet

Thanks! I realized this as I listened. When the LEO used the word debriefed, I jumped to conclusions.


17 posted on 02/25/2005 9:21:31 AM PST by windchime (Hillary: "I've always been a preying person")
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To: l00rk3r
Look, I'm single, never married, no bastard children, so I don't have any first hand experience with this, but I can't imagine that, if I did have a family, every door wouldn't be locked, there wouldn't be very large, very aggressive work dog in the house

Occasionally, somebody forgets to lock a door.

Elizabeth Smart was taken by someone who snuck in through a second-floor window and cut the screen, and who scared her little sister into not sounding the alarm.

Some people used to have big dogs until their kids got a nasty bite.

There's about a zillion possible things that could contribute...do I really have to name them ALL? It's obvious that most of the time, all of them DON'T go wrong, since stranger abduction from the home is an exceptionally rare phenomenom. But it doesn't take a lot of imagination to consider that, statistically, somebody in the entire world is going to let their guard down, just for a moment, right when somebody is ready to take advantage of it.
18 posted on 02/25/2005 9:27:08 AM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: windchime

Do you know where in Ohio?


19 posted on 02/25/2005 9:40:34 AM PST by varina davis
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To: l00rk3r
ALL OUT SEARCH FOR MISSING GIRL -- acc this the front door was found unlocked when father came home at 5:_ _ am. cousin interviewed on Greta last night had helpful add'l info.
20 posted on 02/25/2005 9:52:48 AM PST by cyn
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