07-18-2012, 01:37 PM
hmmmm interesting.
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CNN PRODUCER NOTE The search for two missing girls in Iowa has shocked the US and caused headlines across the country. iReporter Anelia was by Meyers Lake in Iowa, where the two girls' bikes were found, when she saw Vicki Weikert, the paternal grandmother of Lyric Cook, sitting nearby. Weikert said her granddaughter had "as big a heart as you could get" and refuted various rumours around the families involved. "The grandmother's perspective offers a counter narrative to the rumors that fly around in the absence of real developments. It also spells out - from her perspective - the turn of events," our iReporter added. The search for the two girls, meanwhile, continues, with authorities preparing to drain Meyers Lake for clues.
by ANELIA K. DIMITROVA
As investigators say they plan to reinterview family members in the case of the two missing Iowa cousins, a grandmother says family members are not involved in the disappearance of her granddaughter, Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10 and her cousin, Elizabeth Collins, 8.
"if you look up dysfunctional in the dictionary, you re gonna see our pictures," said Vicki Weikert, the paternal grandmother of Cook-Morrissey, as crews continued to drain an Evansdale lake in the vicinity of where the bikes and a purse were found, "but we will fight to the death for our children."
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I THOUGHT FBI WAS ALREADY IN!
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley plans to make a direct request to the FBI director to provide “all assistance available” to the search for two missing Evansdale girls.
Braley, who mentioned his sons played in an Evansdale baseball program when they were younger, is making the appeal at the request of one of the families of the missing girls -- Lyric Cook, 10, and her cousin Elizabeth Collins, 8, who went missing Friday. He did not say which family.
By speaking directly to Director William Mueller, Braley hopes to make sure the “FBI is fully engaged and taking this seriously.”
The FBI has significant and unique resources, he said, such as the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and rapid response teams that apply the most current expertise available in missing child cases.
“If there is a reason to believe an abduction has occurred, which there certainly is in this case, they have a child abduction rapid deployment team” that can provide divers and other search-and-rescue assistance, Braley said during a conference call with reporters July 18
CNN PRODUCER NOTE The search for two missing girls in Iowa has shocked the US and caused headlines across the country. iReporter Anelia was by Meyers Lake in Iowa, where the two girls' bikes were found, when she saw Vicki Weikert, the paternal grandmother of Lyric Cook, sitting nearby. Weikert said her granddaughter had "as big a heart as you could get" and refuted various rumours around the families involved. "The grandmother's perspective offers a counter narrative to the rumors that fly around in the absence of real developments. It also spells out - from her perspective - the turn of events," our iReporter added. The search for the two girls, meanwhile, continues, with authorities preparing to drain Meyers Lake for clues.
by ANELIA K. DIMITROVA
As investigators say they plan to reinterview family members in the case of the two missing Iowa cousins, a grandmother says family members are not involved in the disappearance of her granddaughter, Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10 and her cousin, Elizabeth Collins, 8.
"if you look up dysfunctional in the dictionary, you re gonna see our pictures," said Vicki Weikert, the paternal grandmother of Cook-Morrissey, as crews continued to drain an Evansdale lake in the vicinity of where the bikes and a purse were found, "but we will fight to the death for our children."
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I THOUGHT FBI WAS ALREADY IN!
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley plans to make a direct request to the FBI director to provide “all assistance available” to the search for two missing Evansdale girls.
Braley, who mentioned his sons played in an Evansdale baseball program when they were younger, is making the appeal at the request of one of the families of the missing girls -- Lyric Cook, 10, and her cousin Elizabeth Collins, 8, who went missing Friday. He did not say which family.
By speaking directly to Director William Mueller, Braley hopes to make sure the “FBI is fully engaged and taking this seriously.”
The FBI has significant and unique resources, he said, such as the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and rapid response teams that apply the most current expertise available in missing child cases.
“If there is a reason to believe an abduction has occurred, which there certainly is in this case, they have a child abduction rapid deployment team” that can provide divers and other search-and-rescue assistance, Braley said during a conference call with reporters July 18