Search for missing teen scaled back
Submitted by Lindsay Cohen on Monday, August 23rd, 2010
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It has been five days since Kimmie Daily disappeared, and family and friends of the missing developmentally-delayed teen are worried the case might be going cold.
"We just want her to come home. That's the bottom line," Kimmie's father, Cecil Daily, said Sunday as police scaled back their search efforts.
"It has been one nightmare," he said. "It seems like it's never ending."
For Cecil the worry began on Tuesday when his daughter left for a friend's house on her bike. She never made it there and hasn't been seen since.
"My gut feeling tells me somebody has her," he said. "The longer it drags out the more it's going to be that."
Neighbors say they're working to get the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children involved in the case, and they have blanketed the neighborhood with fliers bearing Kimmie's picture.
Although Kimmie is 16 years old, police say she thinks and acts more like a 9-year-old girl due to a disability since birth.
Search crews spent the end of the week looking for Kimmie from the air and on the ground, using tracking dogs and helicopters. They even tried to pinpoint a signal from her cell phone, but couldn't locate it.
But on Sunday those efforts faded away. Cecil said police scaled back the search, citing a lack of evidence.
Cecil and Kimmie's grandmother took polygraph tests over the weekend, and investigators say they passed. Officials said the tests are common practice in this type of situation and there are no signs of foul play in the girl's disappearance.
Police have also questioned more than two dozen of Kimmie's friends, relatives and neighbors.
Kmmie's father, meanwhile, is left to wait.
"It's just not the same without her," he said.
Sources;
http://bit.ly/Kimmie_Daily
http://puyallup.komonews.com/content/search-missing-teen-scaled-back
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