RANCHO BERNARDO: Search for missing girl yields 'results,' officials say
By SARAH GORDON -
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RANCHO BERNARDO ---- As authorities and volunteers swarmed the shores of Lake Hodges in the third day of a massive search for missing Poway High senior Chelsea King,
sheriff's officials said the effort had yielded some clues.
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We're getting some results; I'm not going to talk about what those results are," said Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell, speaking in front of the Rancho Bernardo Community Park Recreation Center early Sunday afternoon.
About 120 Sheriff's Department Search and Rescue Unit volunteers and nearly as many from several Southern California agencies searched approximately 4 square miles on the southern shores of Lake Hodges, where they have concentrated their work since Thursday evening, Caldwell said.
"We're replicating a lot of our efforts, because we don't want to leave anything unsearched," she said.
The area contains a web of trails where Chelsea, 17, routinely runs 4 to 6 miles.
She hasn't been seen since Thursday afternoon when she left school and headed to the park for a run. Her black BMW was found in the west end of the Rancho Bernardo park's parking lot, off West Bernardo Drive.
Caldwell said terrain has complicated the search as teams scour every inch of steep inclines, thick brush and marshy shoreline.
Three helicopters joined the search Sunday, while divers combed the lake for a second day, Caldwell said.
The Sheriff's Department was assisted Sunday by the San Diego police, FBI, Border Patrol, Del Mar lifeguards and the Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino county sheriff's departments.
Caldwell said about 50 investigators were working on the case, with some going door-to-door in the neighborhood near the park.
Chelsea's parents, Brent and Kelly King, were privately briefed at the sheriff's command center Sunday morning, Caldwell said. The pair also visited the Chelsea King Search Center in Rancho Bernardo, where they walked a line of hundreds waiting to register to help in the search, said Fionna Oberrick, the deputy director of the search center.
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