Fliers with photos of a missing 3-year-old Minot girl and her alleged abductor are in the mail, thanks to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the United States Postal Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The three organizations have teamed up to print and distribute 31,000 fliers by mail to 17 ZIP codes in a 25-mile radius surrounding Minot where Reachelle Smith was last seen May 16. The Deliver Me Home Network is a program to strengthen the chances that missing children can be found and safely returned to their home.
Pat Farrell, a representative of the NCMEC, said Thursday the Deliver Me Home program is still fairly new, so how successful it will be in a given area varies. But, he added, "Any little piece of information that comes in might help. This could help trigger memories.'
'Capt. Al Hanson of the Minot Police Department, who is coordinating the search for Reachelle, said he was pleased by the operation. "This is bringing resources in that we don't have,'' Hanson said. The fliers were printed in Fargo and brought to Minot by relays of N.D. Highway Patrol troopers.
The public is still being encouraged to look around their property, in outbuildings, in old cars, tree rows and culverts or other places where a child might hide.Hanson said investigators are also looking for people who knew or might have associated with Leigh Cowen Jr., the alleged abductor of the little girl. "They might be able to offer some insight into what he was thinking before May 16,'' he said.
The captain said FBI behavioral scientists, one of whom is in Minot
assisting the local investigation, are still going over the massive amount of
evidence forwarded to them for analysis.
Anyone with information should call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678, the Minot Police Department at 852-0111 or their local law enforcement.
Minot News
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