Abducted Girl Alisa Maier Found Alive, Hunt Is On For Her Kidnapper
Police Looking for Man Who Drives Dark Car With Loud Muffler and Missing Hubcaps
July 7, 2010
The hunt for kidnapped 4-year-old Alisa Maier , which ended happily outside a St. Louis car wash, has turned into a hunt for the man in a dark car with a loud muffler and missing hubcaps who abducted her.
4-year-old Alisa Maier is found after she was abducted from her front yard.Alisa Maier, who disappeared for 26 agonizing hours, was found unharmed at a car wash more than 80 miles from her Louisiana, Mo., home.
"She has been released to her family," St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch told reporters today. "From best I could tell, she's in good shape." Alisa turned up at a car wash in a St. Louis suburb after a passerby called police to report a little boy wandering outside just before 10 p.m. Tuesday.
It was Alisa, her hair cut short.
"Right now, my heart's racing ... that we found her," her aunt, Carrie Doyle, told "Good Morning America."
"This community really came together, really came together, and I'm so grateful for that," she said.
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Witnesses told police they saw what they thought was a little boy wandering around the car wash alone in the middle of the night. "Clearly the girl's hair had been cut," Fitch said. Alisa was taken to a nearby hospital and later to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, where was examined for three hours, a hospital spokeswoman said. Alisa and her parents left the hospital about 7:30 a.m. today.
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