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Re: Missing: Jessica Lunsford « Reply #1 on Feb 26, 2005, 12:15pm »
Body Found in Lake Is Not Missing Fla. Girl Saturday, February 26, 2005
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HOMOSASSA, Fla. — A body that turned up in a lake where a young girl disappeared is not that of the missing 9-year-old, police said Friday evening.
Addressing rumors that had been swirling about the discovery, Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy told reporters that a female body found in a lake was not that of Jessica Marie Lunsford (search), who disappeared from her bedroom earlier this week in a case reminiscent of that of Utah girl Elizabeth Smart (search).
"They have totally discarded this woman as being anything involving our missing child," Dawsy said in a Friday evening news conference, one of several he held throughout the day.
He said he'd notified Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, about the body because he didn't want him to learn about it on TV first, but he didn't tell the girl's paternal grandmother, Ruth Lunsford.
"They went through an emotional rollercoaster," Dawsy said. "The dad was emotional, as you can imagine. I was able to go back and tell him that was not Jessica."
The lake where the body was found is reportedly some 70 miles from where an intense search is underway for Jessica, who vanished — seemingly without a trace — from her bedroom Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. The girl was last seen about 10 p.m. Wednesday when her paternal grandmother put her to bed.
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