Unidentified Body Found in Georgia Landfill
By Fox News
October 21, 2009
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Investigators searching for a missing 7-year-old Florida girl said Wednesday that a girl’s body has been found in a Georgia landfill, though the body has yet to be identified.
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler says the garbage at that landfill came from Orange Park, Florida, where Somer Thompson disappeared Monday while walking home from her school.
Florida authorities are going to the landfill to identify the body.
Somer’s mother, Dina Thompson, said earlier Wednesday that she assumes someone has her daughter. Police suspect foul play after first investigating whether she had fallen into something or had gotten lost. Thompson made an appeal to Somer’s possible abductors.
“Just drop her off somewhere. I don’t care if you ever get in trouble,” Thompson said. “I just want my baby back.”
SLIDESHOW: Somer Thompson Disappears on Walk Home From School.
Sheriff Beseler said investigators expanded the initial search area and interviewed about 75 known sex offenders in a five-square-mile radius. Teams of volunteers have walked arm-to-arm through the woods, and deputies have used helicopters and search dogs.
The girl vanished on her mile-long walk home from school Monday in Orange Park, near Jacksonville. Since then, more than 100 Clay County deputies, law enforcement officers from neighboring counties, the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement have scoured a residential Orange Park neighborhood looking for Somer.
The investigation has produced more than 150 leads, but officials remain baffled as to her whereabouts.
Thompson said Somer was squabbling with another child, and her sister told her to stop. The girl got upset, walked ahead of the group and wasn’t seen again.
Beseler said officers have determined that Somer’s disappearance is not connected to an event that happened in the area on Oct. 10, when three people reportedly tried and failed to lure a 5-year-old girl into a car.
“Investigators located that car and those individuals,” Beseler said. “We are confident that incident had nothing to do with Somer’s disappearance. But I can’t go into any further details about that until we finish our investigation.”
Clay County Public Information Officer Mary Justino said the persons of interest in that case came forward Tuesday when they heard about Somer’s disappearance.
Somer is white, 3 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 65 pounds. She has brown hair that was in a pony tail and was wearing a cranberry colored jumpsuit with pink stripes and a black T-shirt underneath. Her backpack is black with pink and white skulls and crossbones.
Her mother said she has an “odd-shaped” birth mark on her left shin.
People are encouraged to call the tip line at (877) 227-6911 with any additional information on the child’s whereabouts.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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