"For close to two hours, the group searched for any clues that may shed some light about what happened to Dulce Maria Alavez on Sept. 16. Coordinated by a private investigator from Pennsylvania, Sunday’s search effort was at least the second attempt this month to find something that law enforcement may have missed. Similar to the volunteer search at City Park on Oct. 6, Sunday’s excursion yielded no results.
Carrie Sheehan, a mother of four from Monmouth County who participated in the search earlier this month as well, said she has started to lose hope of finding the girl.
“There’s really no trace, at this point, of her whereabouts or if she was even in these woods or at the park,” she said Sunday. “At this point, we really have nothing to work off of except each other.”
Sheehan she believed there is “definitely foul play involved.”
Volunteers losing hope as search continues for missing 5-year-old Bridgeton girl