Lindsey Baum # 7 1/27/10 - 4/6/11

[MuffyBee]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/21/1234866/day-of-hope-set-for-lindsey.html
Day of hope' set for Lindsey
June 21, 2010


Missing girl: Event to offer kid ID kits
OLYMPIA - The first anniversary of Lindsey Baum's disappearance will be observed Saturday in Olympia's Heritage Park.

The observance, called “Lindsey’s Day of Hope and Awareness For the Missing,” will take place from 2-8 p.m.

Lindsey was 10 when she disappeared in McCleary on June 26, 2009. She has not been found, and investigators think she is the victim of foul play.

She was walking along Maple Street, going home from a friend’s residence, the evening she disappeared. The last time someone saw Lindsey, she was walking to her mom’s old home on Mommsen Road about 9:15 p.m.

The event in Heritage Park will feature guest speakers, and Washington State Patrol troopers will assist with child identification kits. Activities for children are scheduled. Balloons will be released during a ceremony to remember Lindsey and all of the other missing persons in Washington, according to a flier for the event.

Authorities are offering $25,000 for information that leads to Lindsey’s whereabouts, or for information leading to the arrest of and charges filed against the person or people responsible for her disappearance.

The investigation of Lindsey’s disappearance continues, Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott said during a recent interview.

Jeremy Pawloski: 360-753-5465 jpawloski@theolympian.com

Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/21/1234866/day-of-hope-set-for-lindsey.html#ixzz0rdfiQ800

[MuffyBee]

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/96842294.html
Reward balloons as police renew search for Lindsey Baum
June 21, 2010

MCCLEARY, Wash. -- The reward has just been increased in the search for Lindsey Baum as we approach the one year anniversary of her disappearance.

What was a $25,000 reward has been increased to $30,000.

Meanwhile, the anniversary is providing a time when detectives can talk to people who may only pass through here once a year. McCleary is a small town but a real crossroads with a lot of traffic, and state troopers and the FBI returned to McCleary to ramp up the investigation.

"We want to be out and have our presence felt in the community and keep the community remembering Lindsey's face," said Deputy Dave Pimentel with the Grays Harbor Sheriff's Department. "And hopefully something new will develop."

This week and next they'll be out canvassing some of the same areas as before, talking to people who may have been interviewed before, and also following up on any new leads.

They're still hoping to find the man seen in surveillance video the night Lindsey disappeared, and the people who were in this Honda Ridgeline truck. They're not seen as suspects -- just people who may have seen Lindsey or something suspicious.

"It's terribly frustrating," Pimentel said.

Lindsey's mother no longer lives in McCleary. She's moved to the Olympia area where a special event is planned for Saturday at Heritage Park -- Lindsey's Day of Hope and awareness. June 26, 2009 was the day Lindsey disappeared.

The FBI is here and also in Oregon to help with the search for Kyron Hormon, but we're told Lindsey's case is still a top priority.

"The FBI has been with us every step of the way and they continue to provide a great deal of resources," Pimentel said.

Detectives are hoping with the bump in reward money and Lindsey's face back in the forefront, they'll find that one clue that leads them to Lindsey.

[Nut44x4]

published Friday, June 25, 2010 at 6:32 PM

FBI seeks man, boy as witnesses in missing-girl case
Lindsey Baum of McCleary has been missing for one year now, and law enforcement agents are trying to attract new leads.

The 10-year-old disappeared at approximately 9:30 p.m. on June 26, 2009, while walking home from a friend's house.

On Friday, the FBI distributed a video taken inside a nearby Shell Mart at around that time, in hopes of contacting a man and boy in the clip, who might have witnessed something. The mini mart is along the walking route Lindsey normally took, FBI Special Agent Fred Gutt said.

The man is wearing a large brown T-shirt, dark knee-length shorts and a crimson baseball hat. He drove a white Honda Ridgeline, to the minimart at about the time the girl was last seen.

Grays Harbor sheriff's deputies previously released the video, which can be found at http://seattle.fbi.gov.

Anyone who has tips should call the FBI in Seattle at 206-622-0460.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012210586_lindseybaum26m.html

[no rose colored glasses]

Thanks Nut, I don't understand why this wasn't all done earlier, but since I have no idea how investigations work, I guess that I should just shut up, and pray this may help find Lindsey.

[sunshine12]

i am praying for lindsey and her family and friends today.  this is the case that brought me to scared monkeys. i cannot believe it has been a year since she went missing. 

[Tracygirl]

Awww Lindsey I am so sorry you are not home yet with your mom and brother. When I first read your story I had no idea we would be here one year later still wondering what could have happened to you.

I pray you are alive and well some where and who ever has you is taking good care of you. Until we learn otherwise I will never give up hope.

Prayers to Lindsey, her family and her friends. May you sometime very soon receive the answers you so deserve.

[sunshine12]

Awww Lindsey I am so sorry you are not home yet with your mom and brother. When I first read your story I had no idea we would be here one year later still wondering what could have happened to you.

I pray you are alive and well some where and who ever has you is taking good care of you. Until we learn otherwise I will never give up hope.

Prayers to Lindsey, her family and her friends. May you sometime very soon receive the answers you so deserve.

this is beautiful traceygirl!

[cartfly]

I haven't posted here in quite a while but came across this just now:


Missing girl turns up at Lindsey Baum gathering

By KOMO Staff


http://www.komonews.com/news/local/97264094.html 

[Nut44x4]

Well that's  interesting.....

[mamacrazy30]

kinda ot but not really..harry oaks is looking for kyron horman

Monday, June 28, 2010
We’re starting our search today for Kyron Horman

On 06-28-2010 International K9 Search and Rescue services will be entering the PRIVATE search efforts for Kyron.
No one has hired us. We’re just sick and tired of the local teams not getting any results.

Without the family cooperating with us to give us a scent article we have less then 5% chance of success. We’ll be using cadaver scent.

We’ve received over 100 request by email and telephone calls asking us to get involved.

Since the family of Kyron refuses to help us help them, and the sheriff’s office refuses to bring in private resources, we’re doing this ourselves.

I’ve made the decision to go search areas that are open access to the public on my own.

The last time I did a search in Mult. Co. for a missing child two deputies from Mult. Co. SO grabbed me by my arms and escorted me in front of the missing child’s family OUT of the search area even though PORTLAND POLICE asked me to come in. I was threatened with arrest if I returned.

So I waited until they were done three hours later. They found nothing. I went in in front of the mother and found her daughter dead in less then 30 seconds. In the search area.

She is my witness along with a doctor of vet medicine who witnessed the event and another dog handler. Here’s the case file.
08-10-97 97-1056-133(A). Mult. Co. Lost Child. Jessica Nicole Clark, (Victim). WFJ. age 4. Last seen wearing a yellow one-piece bathing suit with “tweety Bird” in front and “Sylvester the cat” in back. She has dark blonde hair, blue eyes, 3 foot tall, 35 lbs. Missing from Sellwood Riverfront Park on the beach by the dock since approx. 1400Hrs. on 08-10-97. MCSO used the same K9 search dog team as listed above in failing to find the other victims. They went public after they couldn’t find the victim.
We were called in by Portland Police bureau. But MCSO had the case. So we ended up there privately on the mother’s request and located the child’s body in less than 30 seconds with our own 2 dog teams. Both of our search dogs alerted in the water.

The child was recovered the next day as her lifeless body popped out from under the boat dock in front of children playing nearby, right where we told MCSO and PPB that’s where the victim was. They ignored our findings and paid the price of embarrassment.
One more oops to list.
And of course the one that made the news where we embarrassed the FBI and Oregon City PD. Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis and another “Jane Doe”. March 2002 we located all three remains when the FBI and Clackamas County Sheriff’s Dept and Oregon City PD had completed over 7 documented searches on and near Ward Weaver’s property and publicly stated, “There was nothing there to be found”. This again with the same search dog teams that failed to find the above listed victims.

We came in on behalf of the National Missing Children’s locate center of Portland, Oregon and found 3 bodies, not two. The media gave us full credit for the Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis findings. (Note) the FBI refused to dig up her remains when we sent them our report March 30 2002. It wasn’t until Aug 25 2002 under public pressure they finally went in and dug up the cement slab and recovered Ashley’s remains. They also recovered Miranda’s remains and said absolutely nothing about the third body we located. Nor would they ever give us any credit for our documented findings.

MSNBC Dateline TV show “Into Thin air” gave us 100% credibility.

So now you can understand that Politics and Egos repeatedly cost people their lives and fail to find the missing.

Two weeks ago a four year child found a missing Alzheimer patient dead in some berry bushes in Molalla, Ore. Three years after the victim disappeared and the Molalla police dept. “bad mouthed” our teams to the family so they wouldn’t use us. Now how bad it that? A four year old did the job the local sheriff’s and their SAR resources failed to. Again the same SAR Dog team that has failed over and over again was used on the original search for this older woman.

When do we say “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”? When does the public ask the sheriff to, ”ALLOW the family to call in PRIVATE RESOURCES IN to assist in the search”? If this was your son or daughter would you want us to wait a week or two or would you want us in right away?

So if they threaten me again, I will work within the law to do what I can.
But there are some bad feelings between us regarding SAR.

What would be nice if there was a credible person or group of credible persons to raise money and manage the money to cover the cost of this search.

I want absolutely nothing to do with the handling of the money.

Since I’m NOT A NON PROFIT and in fact a for profit and since the family of Kyron doesn’t want to bring me in then the I will end up paying for my own expenses.

It would be nice if I could have a resource to turn to where I would submit my receipts for expenses paid for the search, then the group can make a group decision on whether they will reimburse me or not. This way I have no control over anything but my own search efforts.

This also prevents certain search teams and certain cops in Oregon trying to pull their usual crap and making false statements about me taking advantage of anyone in their time of need.

I’m donating my time and efforts. But this is going to be a costly search in regards to fuel, meals, travel, and some equipment needed. I can’t ask for donations, as we’re a FOR PROFIT search team.

So if anyone has any thoughts on this feel free to email me.
Thanks
Harry

If anyone wants to help us in our search efforts, email me at
searchdog@iinet.com

Thank you

Mr. Oakes
SAR Coordinator.

http://www.k9sardog.com



International K9 Search and Rescue Services
Office 360-414-8093.
Email: searchdog@iinet.com 

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?ui...4246&topic=144

[mamacrazy30]

and another thing that sent chills down my spine, as far as these two being so close (Kyron and Lindsey and the state of washington)...this was from a local in Kyron area...sounds too familier (imo)

I spent the weekend in the Pearl district of Portland this weekend. It's a busy downtown business district, was disappointed to see only one sign (bill board) with Kyron's poster. We shopped and ate, walked several, several blocks by numerous businesses and resturants and only saw the one sign.

I pointed that sad fact out to my daughter who lives there full time and she said "Yeah, it's weird Mom--I see tons on the news about him--but, nothing local--people don't even seem to be talking about the case."

bbm. 

[mamacrazy30]

Well that's  interesting.....

yeah, to say the least

[mamacrazy30]

I haven't posted here in quite a while but came across this just now:


Missing girl turns up at Lindsey Baum gathering

By KOMO Staff


http://www.komonews.com/news/local/97264094.html 

wth?

[mamacrazy30]

imo kyron's justice will happen pretty soon...

Lindsy...it will be your birthday soon....you need to be home for it.  Lindsey your birthday is soon, your birthday is one day after mine, i want us to celebrate it together.  please, please.  Lindsey needs to be home with her mother and her brother.  she has been gone for a year.  Please please come home.  Your mother and your brother and your father all miss you.  if you know Lindsey or know where she is please let somebody know.  if you have any information you can contact the adms. on this board or the fbi.  it has been a year.  it is time for Lindsey to come home.

she needs be home...its been too long.

[MuffyBee]

http://kbkw.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1698
Investigators Seek Public Assistance With Lindsey Baum Related Video
June 28, 2010

McCleary, WA - The Grays Harbor County Sheriffs Department has released more video related to the Lindsey Baum investigation, one year after her dissappearance, Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott said "we are now releasing additional video of people and vehicles that have not been identified from the Shell Station videos."

Some of the video is from earlier in the day and some from later in the evening.

The Department is asking that people that recognize either of the persons or vehicle contact us at 1-866-915-8299 or at soadmin@co.grays-harbor.wa.us. Scott said "We have not identified these people so are unsure how long they were in McCleary on that date and if they may have seen anything that may be of use in the investigation."

Investigators would still like to talk to anyone who may have seen anything in McCleary between 9 and 10 pm Friday - June 26th of 2009, when the little girl failed to return to her home on Mommsen Road from a friend's house on Maple street a few blocks away.

Lindsey's family has established a couple of websites to promote the search efforts,  and www.findlindseybaum.comwww.lindseybaum.com

Lindsey will turn 12 years old on Tuesday July 7th, and is described as 4 foot-9, 80 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a grey pullover hoodie with blue jeans and black shoes.

[MuffyBee]

http://**/articles/2010/06/26/local_news/doc4c25a776934fb258675367.txt
New surveillance videos released in Baum case
Saturday, June 26, 2010 4:18 PM PDT

Go to ** to see the video

The Daily World

MONTESANO — The Grays Harbor Sheriffs office has released new video in the Lindsey Baum case. The new 38-second video, released Friday, is surveillance of the parking lot and pump stations at the McCleary Shell Station, located a few blocks away from where the girl disappeared.

The footage was taken around the time McCleary girl disappeared and shows a black truck doing a turnabout at the convenience store.

Authorities have also released a video of a male subject in a red shirt entering the store from a white truck. The male has not been identified, but authorities hope someone who sees the video will help identify the individual so they can question him for any helpful details he may have seen while passing through the town the night Lindsey went missing.

Last month, authorities released a video of a man in camouflage hat and a blue plaid shirt entering the Third Street Shell Station around the time the girl disappeared.

None of the videos have generated any new clues to the case, but authorities are hopeful that the public can help to identify the people in the videos or provide any new details about the night of Baum’s disappearance.

Law enforcement officials are asking anyone who might have any information about the whereabouts of Lindsey Baum to come forward with tips. Tips can be made by phone at 1-866-915-8299 or via e-mail at soadmin@co.grays-harbor.wa.us. They may also be mailed to PO Box 305 McCleary, WA 98557.

[mamacrazy30]

http://www.prlog.org/10739340-mother-of-missing-lindsey-baum-10-is-homeless.html

PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 15, 2010 – We are asking if anyone who owns housing, whether it be a campground, apartment or trailer court, to please contact us if you may be able to provide housing for Melissa Baum and her son.

Melissa is the mother of missing child Lindsey Baum, 11, from McCleary, Wa. who went missing June 26, 2009 while walking home from a friend's house.

Due to Melissa's loss of work and searching for her missing daughter she is seeking a place to live and will have no choice but to enter a shelter by weeks end if she cannot locate housing. Relatives have enabled the family to stay for periods of time, however, Melissa's son, who is special needs, requires living quarters in which it is one on one with he and his mother and not a lot of distraction and others around. Anyone with a special needs child can understand the importance of a routine and a structured quiet atmosphere inside the household.

Melissa is currently on the Section 8 waiting list and it may not be until the end of summer before she may be provided with the needed assistance. Presently they live on a very low budget each month and if anyone can help this family avoid living in a homeless shelter, it would be very much appreciated.

Please contact info@lostnmissing.com if you have a place that can be donated for she and her son to live.  They are in need immediately.   

[mamacrazy30]

http://**/articles/2010/06/26/local_news/doc4c25a6ec75090721458232.txt

One Year Gone
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
Saturday, June 26, 2010 9:09 AM PDT

High-pitched shrieks and laugher from children playing in the Heritage Park fountain carried across the grass to the nearby picnic table where Melissa Baum sat earlier this week.

Melissa brushed her hair from her eyes and squinted into the sun. Traffic rolled past the Olympia park as dozens of young boys and girls ran through the streams of water, giggling and smiling.

“I’ve always been overprotective of my children,” she said. “They never went outside without me.”

When Melissa and her two children lived in Tennessee, she worried about snakes. She said she wouldn’t let the little Lindsey and Josh outside unless the lawn had been mowed. When she moved to Olympia, she warned them not to talk to strangers and worried they might wander into traffic.

Now again living in Olympia with her sister, Melissa, 38, ran her fingers over a flier on the picnic table. The stained flier was filled with pictures of missing children, infants and teens lost throughout the years. One faded photo matched the smiling young face printed on Melissa’s well-worn shirt.

McCleary, the East County town of just 1,500 people, seemed a sanctuary from the big city worries. Melissa and her two children moved there about three years ago for the small town simplicity and the lower cost of living.

“I was able to find a house down there for the same price I was paying for an apartment here,” she said. “I thought it was a nice, small, safe town. My kids would have a yard to play in and I thought truly in my heart that that would be the best place for my kids.”

She paused a moment, shaking her head.

“Crucial mistake.”

VANISHED

Melissa’s worst nightmare came true one year ago today when her daughter Lindsey, a bright-eyed, brown-haired aspiring writer, vanished during a short walk along Maple Street in McCleary just 10 days before her 11th birthday.

After spending the afternoon swimming and playing with a friend down the street, Lindsey started walking home just after 9 p.m. on June 26, 2009. Neighbors reported seeing her along the residential street as a pale light still hung in the sky. But she never made it home.

Her 12-year-old brother had already gone back to the house and her cell phone was recharging. The outgoing Girl Scout and “Twilight” fan, who loved animals and surfing the social networking site Myspace.com, just disappeared almost within sight of home and the McCleary police station.

“I taught my kids not to talk to strangers,” Melissa said, now a year later. “They knew. And they knew there are bad people out there that will do bad things to kids. You teach them everything that you’re told to teach them. I know Lindsey knew all that.”

“I’m wondering,” she added, “did I miss something?”

No one found any signs of struggle. No one reported hearing screams. Investigators first believed Lindsey may have wandered off or become injured somewhere, but the possibility of an abduction hung overhead like a constant shadow.

Federal agents, search volunteers, TV news crews and paranoia descended upon the town. Search planes circled the treelines. Helicopters buzzed over the Simpson mill. Photos of Lindsey went up in every business front window.

SEARCH CONTINUES

Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott said investigators still cannot explain Lindsey’s disappearance, but they feel an abduction is likely. No definitive evidence has been found.

After initial searches turned to in-depth investigation, the detectives went to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for additional resources. The bureau’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team recently reviewed the case and offered follow-up questioning and searches.

“Every little thing that can be done is being done by whoever can think of it,” Scott said.

A handful of Sheriff’s Office detectives and FBI agents remain on the case full-time as they continue to follow-up on tips and comb through interview statements. Scott said the investigators have plenty of potential leads to pursue. Hundreds have been followed to dead ends.

“They remain optimistic,” he said. “It hasn’t stalled out. ... They regroup, they refocus and they get back to the job at hand.”

Investigators and additional volunteer officers from regional departments gathered in McCleary earlier this week for another series of searches and interviews. Carrying clipboards, officers took shifts knocking on doors and following up on previous questions.

Scott compared the effort to conducting an orchestra. Small teams are given different possibilities or scenarios to pursue and they develop information based on their direction of investigation.

“The investigators are tasked to specific assignments,” Scott said. “Different guys are working different things.”

After several new “pushes” for information, Scott said they continue to develop small clues that could lead to the clue that leads to Lindsey. But that just hasn’t happened yet.

“Persons of interest” have been evaluated and eliminated on an ever-changing basis, he said. Investigators have executed search warrants and questioned local sex offenders.

“Something will pop up,” he said.

Scott acknowledged the search has been expensive, but volunteer officers from other departments, donated snacks and supplies, careful budget changes and conscientious spending has kept the department within budget.

“You can’t put a price tag on these kinds of cases,” he emphasised. “I don’t even think about that. We do everything we need to do when we need to do it. ... But we try to be frugal.”

“The FBI’s contribution has been outstanding,” he added. “All that they’ve brought to help us, you can’t put a price on it.”

Melissa and close friends continue to organize community searches and awareness events. She said she remains hopeful that investigators are making progress.

“I know stuff goes on behind the scenes that we don’t see, but of course it helps,” she said. “Everything that’s done will bring us closer to finding her.”

Despite the limited evidence, Scott said he can look back over the body of work from the past year and see solid accomplishments.

“There’s still that underlying anxiety of not having solved the mystery,” he said. “(But) there isn’t a day in the last 365 days that we haven’t thought about this case. I’m very proud of the work they’ve done.”

OTHER CHALLENGES

In the months since Lindsey vanished, Melissa continues to make finding her daughter her sole focus. While much of the world has seemingly moved on without Lindsey, Melissa has found herself caught between her daughter and being left behind.

“I’m still in a holding pattern,” she said. “It’s hard when you see the rest of the world around you go on and yours doesn’t. For some reason you expect the whole world to stop and it doesn’t. That’s frustrating.”

Melissa said she first felt the sting when national news channels repeatedly let breaking news stories on pop singer Michael Jackson’s death bump stories about Lindsey.

“I know I’ve been luckier than a lot,” she said, noting thousands of children go missing every week without anyone hearing about them. “I know there’s a lot of children that go missing that don’t get what Lindsey has. ... But I think every child that goes missing should be national news.”

Unable to return to work, Melissa has struggled financially with mounting bills. She has not been able to find work that will also give her enough time to keep up her search efforts, even when she feels emotionally strong enough to work. The state has also cut off Lindsey’s child support payments.

A dwindling bank account forced her to move in with family near Rainier earlier this year. After a falling out, she and Josh moved into a motel for several weeks. She later decided to send Josh to stay with his father in Tennessee while she moved in with her sister’s family.

“I’m trying to get something permanent ready before my son has to return from his visitation with his dad,” she said. “I don’t want to bring him back when I don’t have somewhere for him to be. The motel wasn’t good for him. It was just too confining.”

Melissa said coping with Lindsey’s absence remains a day-to-day fight. She wants to make plans, but will not consider acting on them until her daughter’s found. She tries to stay busy organizing search efforts to keep her mind occupied.

“Not having something going on is not a good thing,” she said with a nervous chuckle. “I still have my days, or I have my weeks where I can’t get out of bed.”

RAISING AWARENESS

The last few days have seemed better. She has immersed herself in coordinating a Day of Hope event in Heritage Park to mark one year since Lindsey’s disappearance. The safety-themed festivities run from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. today in Heritage Park near the water. They will release 365 red balloons marking each day Lindsey has been missing and other balloons bearing the names of missing children from around the state.

During the past year, Melissa has educated herself on endangered and missing children issues, statistics and stories. She lists the names of missing children found safe like Elizabeth Smart, Jaycee Dugard and Shawn Hornbeck. She also knows the names of those still missing or worse.

“I’ve become aware of what an epidemic it is,” she said.

Melissa has learned about kidnapping and sex offense regulations, promising once Lindsey is found she will focus on toughening the laws meant to protect children.

“Victim’s rights have to come first,” she said.

Empowering herself with knowledge sometimes feels like all she can do. She said she’s not a police officer. She can’t search homes or question suspects.

“I’ve had a lot of people asking me that, ‘Is it getting easier or how are you coping?’ ” she said. “Well, I’m coping the same way I was a year ago. I’m just more frantic. It’s so long. It’s just so long.”

UNENDING FAITH

Melissa said she also becomes angry and frustrated at times, wondering what could have been done differently by herself, police or others. She said her close friends have helped her keep going.

“I think you learn through this who the really important people are in your life and weed out the rest,” she said. “It’s been surprising to me, the ones who have been weeded out are some of the ones I never thought would be.”

Those remaining dear friends have become a “core team” that helps her print fliers, post information online and organize search events. A couple accompanied Melissa to Heritage Park as they finalized arrangements for the Day of Hope.

“There’s nothing that hasn’t change in my life,” she said. “Obviously, my love for my kids hasn’t changed, but that’s the only thing. Our entire world is upside and will probably never be the same.”

“Nothing will every be the same,” she added. “It’s just getting through it.”

She holds on to a faith she said she never knew she had, an enduring intuition that Lindsey is all right. Around her wrist hangs a bracelet with a part of the “Footprints Prayer” engraved on it.

“ ... It was then that I carried you ...”

The rest of the day will include calling vendors, getting new T-shirts printed and calling media to promote the Day of Hope event. Across the grass, the children still screamed and laughed. The faded faces peered up from the flier on the picnic table, many nameless and forgotten by the public.

“I vowed that’s not going to happen with my daughter,” she said before leaving. “People are not going to sit back and say, ‘I wonder what happened to Lindsey Baum.’ ”

Reader Comments

[Basket Case]

It will be Lindsey's 12th birthday in a couple of hours. Happy birthday Lindsey. May God bring you safely back home.

[Sister]

snipped from above article:
“I’ve always been overprotective of my children,” she said. “They never went outside without me.”

Unfortunately, that is not a true statement regarding Lindsey or Josh.

Happy Birthday Lindsey!