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FBI Special Agent-in-charge Dan McMullen (DM)
DM: Thank you, Sheriff. Again, my name is Daniel McMullen. I'm the Special Agent in Charge with the FBI for the State of Mississippi. As you all know, the FBI's been working side by side with the Madison County Sheriff's Office and multiple state law enforcement agencies to bring little Myra back home. We've significant ground searches, air searches, we've brought in specialized search teams, but unfortunately, to this date we still don't know where little Myra is. With that, the FBI is now offering a $20,000 reward for information on little Myra's whereabouts. Obviously, we believe that there is someone out there that has information to where little Myra is, and we certainly hope that by offering this reward, that we'll receive that information, and bring her home. I appreciate the media's continued interest in this case. I think working with the media and law enforcement, we will bring little Myra home safely. Thank you.
R(eporter): Obviously, with the $20,000 reward, do you believe someone is holding the child against her will, maybe for ransom or something?
DM: Well, the reward doesn't necessarily suggest that. The reward suggests that we believe that someone does have information , if we can get that information, then we can bring her home. We encourage the public to reach out to the FBI, to report any information they have, no matter how small you think that information is, and also to the Madison County Sheriff's Department, or to your local law enforcement, wherever you're seeing this message. So, someone has information, and we hope this $20,000 reward will help that person to come forward.
R: (inaudible) all across the country in terms of the FBI. Do you believe with this many days, the weather we've had, that Myra is still alive somewhere?
DM: There's no value in speculating. We're hopeful. That hopefulness drives this investigation. So, we're hopeful that she's still alive and we're working day in and day out to bring her back home.
R: Some of the tips we've had in the last week is that someone took her and maybe left the area, the immediate area?
DM: Again, I understand the desire to kind of determine whether she's missing, abducted, and so forth, but the bottom line is, what we know now is that we don't know where she is and all of this effort is going towards answering that question, without regard to how we would categorize. We wanna know where she is.
R: The $20,000 reward speaks volumes. You must have some reason to believe - someone is giving you a tip or something that says someone is holding her against her will and somebody is not talking.
DM: No it doesn't. What it says is that we conducted a significant investigation and we don't know where she is now, and the reward is another investigative tool, and it's a tool we're going to utilize at this point in the investigation.
R: How much of an import has social media been? We know that the family said yesterday that they were getting a lot of criticism on social media, but from the end of the investigation side, have you received any leads from social media? Or have they been directly from call-ins?
DM: We've received a number of leads from many different corners, but we still haven't received the lead we need to bring her home. Again, thank you again for the media's interest in this story and I think through the media, we will answer the question as to where little Myra is. Thank you.
DM: Thank you, Sheriff. Again, my name is Daniel McMullen. I'm the Special Agent in Charge with the FBI for the State of Mississippi. As you all know, the FBI's been working side by side with the Madison County Sheriff's Office and multiple state law enforcement agencies to bring little Myra back home. We've significant ground searches, air searches, we've brought in specialized search teams, but unfortunately, to this date we still don't know where little Myra is. With that, the FBI is now offering a $20,000 reward for information on little Myra's whereabouts. Obviously, we believe that there is someone out there that has information to where little Myra is, and we certainly hope that by offering this reward, that we'll receive that information, and bring her home. I appreciate the media's continued interest in this case. I think working with the media and law enforcement, we will bring little Myra home safely. Thank you.
R(eporter): Obviously, with the $20,000 reward, do you believe someone is holding the child against her will, maybe for ransom or something?
DM: Well, the reward doesn't necessarily suggest that. The reward suggests that we believe that someone does have information , if we can get that information, then we can bring her home. We encourage the public to reach out to the FBI, to report any information they have, no matter how small you think that information is, and also to the Madison County Sheriff's Department, or to your local law enforcement, wherever you're seeing this message. So, someone has information, and we hope this $20,000 reward will help that person to come forward.
R: (inaudible) all across the country in terms of the FBI. Do you believe with this many days, the weather we've had, that Myra is still alive somewhere?
DM: There's no value in speculating. We're hopeful. That hopefulness drives this investigation. So, we're hopeful that she's still alive and we're working day in and day out to bring her back home.
R: Some of the tips we've had in the last week is that someone took her and maybe left the area, the immediate area?
DM: Again, I understand the desire to kind of determine whether she's missing, abducted, and so forth, but the bottom line is, what we know now is that we don't know where she is and all of this effort is going towards answering that question, without regard to how we would categorize. We wanna know where she is.
R: The $20,000 reward speaks volumes. You must have some reason to believe - someone is giving you a tip or something that says someone is holding her against her will and somebody is not talking.
DM: No it doesn't. What it says is that we conducted a significant investigation and we don't know where she is now, and the reward is another investigative tool, and it's a tool we're going to utilize at this point in the investigation.
R: How much of an import has social media been? We know that the family said yesterday that they were getting a lot of criticism on social media, but from the end of the investigation side, have you received any leads from social media? Or have they been directly from call-ins?
DM: We've received a number of leads from many different corners, but we still haven't received the lead we need to bring her home. Again, thank you again for the media's interest in this story and I think through the media, we will answer the question as to where little Myra is. Thank you.
