The Grays Harbor County sheriff's office says searches this week in McCleary for a girl missing more than a year produced no breakthrough evidence.

Undersheriff Rick Scott told The Aberdeen Daily World searches of a house and storage area turned up no "smoking gun or red flags."

Scott says detectives continue to look at a 47-year-old man who moved into a McCleary home almost two years ago. Scott says there's no evidence he has knowledge or involvement in the disappearance of Lindsey Baum, but there have been some inconsistencies in his statements to investigators.

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It is one year today since Lindsey Baum who vanished around 9:30 p.m. while walking home from a friend's house in McLeary, Washington.

The FBI are asking for the public's help to identify a man and a boy in a previously video they released again on Friday. The video was taken inside a Shell-Mart Gas Station on the night that Lindsey disappeared. It shows a man and a boy, who authorities believe might have witnessed something and are asking for them to come forward, or anyone that may recognize them to let the police know.

The Shell Mart is along the walking route that Lindsey took and usually walked.

The video shows the man with a young boy, walking into the gas station and leaving. In the video, the boy is wearing a white t-shirt and black shorts with a white stripe and the man is wearing a brown T-shirt, dark knee-length shorts and a red baseball hat.  The man purchases something and then waits for the boy and leaves.  They man was driving a newer white Honda Ridgeline with boxes in the back.

The FBI, along with the Grays Harbor Sheriff's Department have said that the man and boy may not be from the area. Anyone who has tips should call the FBI in Seattle at 206-622-0460.

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The Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department has released a video of missing 11-year-old Lindsey Baum.

The video shows Lindsey playing with a neighbor seven months before she vanished in McCleary last June.

Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott says they released the video in hopes it might spark memories with people who may have seen her.

"We're releasing it to just continue to hopefully jog people's memories."

Scott says leads are few and far between, but approaching a year on the case, they're stepping up efforts again.

"In the next days and weeks to come we're going to be doing more searching in and around McCleary and continuing to talk to people."

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MCCLEARY, Wash. -- New surveillance video has surfaced that investigators hope will help in the search for 10-year-old Lindsey Baum, who has been missing since last June.

The video is from a Shell gas station in McCleary that shows two people there around the time Lindsey would have been walking back to her home and disappeared.

One segment shows a Honda Ridgeline truck that went through the station twice during that same period. Investigators would like to talk to the driver, but Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott says the driver is not considered to be directly connected to the case. They just want to talk to him to see if he witnessed anything that evening that could provide a clue in the case.

A second video shows a man in a brown shirt that is in the gas station with a young kid. Scott says they think it could be who was in the Ridgeline, but can't say for sure since the Ridgeline parked off-camera and there is no footage of anyone exiting or entering the truck to say for sure.

A third video shows a man in a blue plaid shirt with a camouflage baseball hat. Scott again said this man is not believed to be connected to the case either, but police would like to ask if he too saw anything that night, as any little observation could be crucial.

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Pictures posted on two trucks are being used in the investigation of a girl who has been missing since last summer.

Gordon Trucking donated two trucks with pictures of Lindsey Baum that are parked in McCleary, where the girl lived, and a parking lot near Elma.The truck in McCleary is parked on Simpson Avenue. The other truck is parked along State Route 8 at Heise Road east of Elma in the parking lot of Cabinet Distributors.Volunteers and police have combed McCleary and surrounding locations but have not found evidence as to where the girl might be.

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No breakthrough evidence has surfaced in the renewed questioning of McCleary residents, but investigators say they are collecting valuable details about the day Lindsey Baum disappeared, according to The Daily World of Aberdeen.

Federal and local authorities continue to canvass the city for clues, Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott said.

He said investigators are conducting much more thorough interviews of residents along the Maple Street area where the 11-year-old girl went missing. The interviews are part of third-party recommendations from FBI experts on the Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team.

Investigators have taken hours to question some residents, Scott said, allowing those people to elaborate on details they might have left out of earlier interviews.

“We’re getting a lot of information,” he said. He later added, “It’s starting to paint a better picture.”

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MCCLEARY, Wash. - Nine months after 10-year-old Lindsey Baum vanished without a trace, FBI agents returned to the family home Friday to conduct a new search.

There is no new evidence or new tips that brought the FBI to the home where Lindsey was living before her nationally publicized disappearance last June.

Rather, investigators want to take a last chance to gather material from the home before Lindsey's mother, Melissa Baum, moves out of McCleary for good.

Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott said Lindsey's room has been preserved untouched in the home since the evening of June 26, when she vanished while walking home from a friend's home.

Now that Lindsey's mother is moving in with relatives in Thurston County, investigators want to take this last opportunity to gather fibers, hair samples and other evidence from the home.

"An outside review of the investigation into the disappearance suggested another review of the home be made by CSI specialists, and the FBI team was available today," Undersheriff Scott told KOMO News.

He said the home has been searched at least three times before. This time, forensics experts will be taking samples of carpet, furniture, hair strands, materials in the family car and anything else that might help them if that type of evidence is ever needed.

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MCCLEARY, Wash. -- The reward for a missing girl from McCleary, Lindsey Baum, has been increased as police plan to restart their investigation.

McCleary police said Wednesday that the reward has been increased from $10,000 to $20,000.

Police also met with a reviewing agency that looked over their investigation so far. Police said they plan to start the process over again and will re-interview those who they’ve already spoken to.

Baum, 11, hasn't been seen since June 26 when she disappeared while walking home from a friend's house.

Two people spotted the then 10-year-old along the way, but she never made it home and investigators have found no evidence that could explain her disappearance.

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Volunteers are holding a candlelight vigil for Lindsey Baum Saturday night at Olympia's Heritage Park.

The ten-year-old was last seen walking home from a friend's house in McCleary last June.Police has asked the public for help, but no one has come forward with anything that might lead them to her.

The vigil begins at 6 p.m. Organizers expect it to last one hour. Attendees are encouraged to bring candles.

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The Grays Harbor County sheriff's office says deputies started serving search warrants Friday in the McCleary area in the search for a missing 11-year-old girl.

Sgt. Steve Shumate told KXRO more warrants would be served through the weekend in an operation involving the FBI and the King County sheriff's office.

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The Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office says rumors of a break in the Lindsey Baum case, involving a missing McCleary girl, are false.

Baum vanished on June 26 just 10 days before her 11th birthday while walking a few blocks from her home.

Undersheriff Rick Scott said Friday that he had fielded media calls all day asking him about alleged warrants and  arrests.

Scott said someone was contacting media outlets anonymously with bogus tips. Reporters and community members called the Sheriff’s Office all day to ask about the rumors.

“About the only thing true is that I’m burning up the minutes on my cell phone,” Scott said.

Scott said no one has filed any police reports and there is nothing legally the Sheriff’s Office can do about the false reports.

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Police Chief George Crumb said he used to look out his office window from the police station on Summit Road and see Lindsey Baum walking with her regular group of friends.

“She was pretty much a daily fixture of the area,” Crumb said of Lindsey, who was 10 when she went missing not two blocks from the police station as she walked to her home from a friend’s June 26. “She seemed to be, you could even say, the leader of the little group.”

Before she disappeared, Crumb thought nothing of noticing Lindsey - in this small town of about 1,500, all the locals know the neighborhood children by name.

“It wasn’t unusual to see her along with everything else,” Crumb said.

As summer has turned to fall, more than four months have passed with no sign of what happened to Lindsey. Residents say the girl’s absence, and the fear of what might have happened to her, have the entire town hurting.

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According to the post "Reward Offered In Disappearance Of 11-Year-Old McCleary Girl" below, the family has given two websites http://lindseybaum.com/ and http://findlindseybaum.com/. For anyone who would like to donate to the search effort, both sites point you to a postal address for donations.

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Frustration is boiling over in McCleary, where a weekend search for an 11-year-old girl failed to turn up a break in the case. And a local family says their son, who has received death threats, has unfairly become the town's scapegoat.

Three months have passed since Lindsay Baum disappeared. The search conducted last weekend kindled new hope, but also sparked a sense of vigilante justice.

For two days, sheriff's detectives and FBI agents swarmed over the 11-acre property of an extended local family just south of town. Deputies said the search did not turn up any key evidence linking the place with the girl's disappearance.

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After two days of intense searching at a home and property outside McCleary, investigators said it appears they found no significant evidence that will help find 11-year-old Lindsey Baum.

The owner of the property told KIRO 7 reporter Richard Thompson that he’s contacted a lawyer about suing the police and the media, saying they had no right to put the family through the search. 

Baum’s mother said she is disappointed that nothing was found relating to her daughter, who has been missing for three months. 

"I was obviously really hoping something would come from the search," said Melissa Baum.

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The homeowner of the property said his family has been unfairly targeted in the search, "they didn't find anything here because we didn't do anything to that little girl."

Relatives confirm a man at the house was the focus of the investigation and search. One of his relatives said, "the only reason they were doing this search is, he gave a wrong answer to a question by a detective on the telephone."

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Investigators cleared roadblocks from a rural McCleary area street and allowed a family back into its home over the weekend after finding no new evidence explaining the disappearance of 11-year-old Lindsey Baum.

Grays Harbor Chief Criminal Deputy Dave Pimentel said the potentially credible information that launched two search warrants along Foreman Road and new interviews Friday has not produced any new direction for investigators.

“We didn’t find anything that we’re excited about,” he said.

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Pimentel said investigators collected several samples of potential forensic evidence Friday while combing two residences and nearby property outside McCleary. It could be months before forensic tests tell investigators if any of the evidence is helpful.

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Candles of hope were lit in McCleary Saturday as people came together, united by a painful mystery - what happened to 11-year-old Lindsey Baum on the afternoon of June 26?

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Grays Harbor County Sheriff's investigators and the FBI have been busy this weekend, serving warrants and searching several local homes, inside and out.

A sheriff's spokesperson said more search warrants will come as they follow up what they're calling "credible" leads that specific properties may contain evidence in the case.

Vigil organizers said they will never forget, and never stop looking.

"I just want to make sure that she's not forgotten, that everybody knows she's still out there. She's still not home," said Melissa Baum

A sheriff's department spokesman said their search would likely continue through the weekend.

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McCLEARY — Law enforcement officials began serving search warrants in the McCleary area this morning after “credible information” emerged that may help investigators locate Lindsey Baum, the 11-year-old McCleary girl who disappeared three months ago Saturday.

“Credible information has been developed that there are locations in the McCleary area that may contain evidence that may assist investigators in locating Lindsey Baum,” Sgt. Steve Shumate of the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office read from a statement this morning. “This activity is expected through the weekend. Due to the sensitive nature of the investigation and to reduce the risk of compromise, no further details of the current investigative activity will be released.”

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Supporters of Baum planned to conduct a candlelight vigil Saturday to mark three months since she went missing.
 
The group plans to gather at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Evergreen Christian Center on Fourth Street in McCleary to offer support and share the latest news on the search.

“This candlelight vigil will mark three months since the abduction of Lindsey Baum took place,” a news release stated, “and will serve to remind us to never forget and never stop looking.”

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