24 Hours After Carthage Boy Goes Missing Police End Ground Search
By KSPR News
By Joanna Small
Story Created: Feb 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM CST
(Story Updated: Feb 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM CST
It's been almost 24 hours since a Carthage baby was reported missing, and last Friday night, it's unclear whether police are any closer to finding him than when the search began.
Police say they still believe they will find 8-month-old Eddie Salazar alive, but the odds of that happening in the woods, water, dumpsters- anything within close proximity to the child's home- are getting slimmer.
A major hang-up has been a lack of eyewitnesses.
"The dog woke me up at 11p.m. so I let her out, didn't think anything was going on."
Pam Boswell's late night account is a disappointingly familiar one.
Few neighbors on Carthage's Mound Street knew anything out of the ordinary was going on, until it had.
"I didn't hear anything," Boswell says.
But Salazar's father told police there was a struggle Thursday night around 11.
He claims two masked men broke into his home, beat him up, and stole his baby.
"We always have to believe what we're told. You always believe the victim and the story they give is the story you go with," says Carthage Police Chief Greg Dagnan.
So police were on the hunt
"Geographically it was about 15 to 20 blocks in the city area. We did push out a little further on the east side of town. It's more rural, we've got the lake out there and the river area," explains Missouri Highway Patrol Sergeant Mike Watson.
Both of which were combed by Missouri Water Patrol officers Friday afternoon.
But now the thorough ground searching is over.
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