Hickory, my home town and town where my mother still lives, is the town in which a 10 year old girl who has a prosthetic leg, is hard of hearing, and is reported to also have cancer is missing. Police dogs found the scent of human remains at the home today. The poorlittle girl has been through enough in her short life and to have the ones she needs to look to for help do her harm is more than an injustice. To have anyone do her home is beyond a shame but especially if it turns out to be her gaurdians that did her harm, it is beyond unforgiveable.
This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Zahra Clare Baker, a 10 year-old North Carolina hearing-impaired girl with a prosthetic leg who is missing. The girl was last seen by her stepmother at 2:30 a.m. Saturday Oct. 9, 2010. A fire was reported in the Bakers' backyard about 5 a.m.
HICKORY, N.C. — Police dogs detected the smell of human remains on two cars at the home of a missing girl who has bone cancer and a prosthetic leg, a search warrant said Monday.
The document filed in a Hickory court didn't indicate that police found any remains in their search, which was conducted Sunday night. The warrant said the dogs detected the smell on a sedan and SUV belonging to the father and stepmother.
Earlier in the day, the police chief cast doubt on accounts by the father and stepmother of 10-year-old Zahra Clare Baker. They told police they discovered she was missing on Saturday and that one of them had seen in her sleeping in her room hours earlier.
But Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins said a news conference that investigators were having trouble finding anyone else who had seen the home-schooled girl alive in the last few weeks.
"We don't know the last time anyone saw her," he said. "We're having a difficult time establishing a true timeline."
The police department declined to comment further on the warrant, but said Adkins would issue a statement Tuesday morning.
Zahra's father, Adam Baker, said during an morning TV interview that it was possible his wife could be involved in the disappearance, which was reported hours after a fire in the home's backyard. Elisa Baker was arrested Sunday on about a dozen charges unrelated to the girl's disappearance.
A reporter saw what appeared to be remnants of clothes among burned branches from the fire at the scene.
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Associated Press Writers Meg Kinnard in Columbia, S.C., and Martha Waggoner and Mike Baker in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report.
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