Search for Lindsey Baum will get help from prison inmates

Staff report • Published October 26, 2010 Modified October 26, 2010

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Inmates will help law enforcement officers search for missing 12-year-old Lindsey Baum of McCleary this week.

The FBI, the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington State Patrol will be working with inmates from the Cedar Creek Corrections Center to conduct targeted searches in and around McCleary today, Wednesday and Thursday.

The inmates assisted in searches for Lindsey during August and early October.

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