Missing from McCleary, Washington is ten year old Lindsey J. Baum.A spokesman with the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s department said that Lindsey J. Baum was last seen leaving a friend’s house Friday night around 9 p.m. in the town of McCleary.
Police told KIRO 7 that Lindsey left the house on Maple Street and failed to show up at her home on Mommsen Rd, just 5 blocks away. Police said that Lindsey is 4 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 80 pounds, has brown hair and brown eyes. Her mother reported her missing at 10:50 p.m. And as the hours drag by with no sign of her, the girl’s family fears she may have been taken by a stranger.
Search teams have been out looking for the girl, using bloodhounds. Sheriff’s deputies, meanwhile, are calling people who live in the neighborhood and also are going door to door to see if anyone heard or saw anything. Other searchers are combing the nearby woods on ATVs. Everyone is anxious for any sign of the missing girl. She was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue jeans and black shoes.
The girl’s disappearance has shocked many residents of McCleary, population 1,550, where the biggest employer is a lumber mill that manufactures doors and people know their neighbors.
Lindsey’s mother admits the 10-year old had been fighting with her brother in the moments before she was last seen, and that Lindsey is still upset about her parent’s recent divorce. But with every passing hour, there are mounting worries that the friendly girl who will talk with anybody is in serious trouble.
Baum called her daughter a “mama’s girl,” and said the two were re-reading the Harry Potter books aloud to prepare for the upcoming movie. Lindsey wanted to have her friend over to read with them, and left while it was still light out.
Chief George Crumb of the McCleary Police Department said friends and family are assisting the search, and that while his department hopes Baum just ran off on her own, “she’s been gone far too long.” “If anyone does have her, bring her back home or take her to a pay phone where she can call home,” Baum said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Grays Harbor 911 center at 800-281-6944.
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