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  • Making a plan: Curt Hunter works with K-9 team members Chelsea Gill and Jayne Stommel to understand their search area. The three from Midwest Search Dogs Search and Rescue were taking part in the search for missing Vigo County 12 year-old Alyssa Sedletzeck. (Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis)

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  • Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis Above and below: A K-9 Search and Rescue team heads into Howard subdivision where Alyssa Sedletzeck went missing Sunday evening while an Indiana State Police helicopter searches from above.

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  • Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis Just beginning: A K-9 search team heads out toward Hasselburger Road to begin their part of the search for missing 12 year-old Alyssa Sedletzeck.

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  • Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis Personal items: Vigo County Director of Emergency Management Doreen Hojnicki hands personal items belonging to Alyssa Sedletzeck to K-9 team leader Julie Cramer Wednesday afternoon. Cramer's was one of several K-9 teams involved in the search for the missing Vigo County 12 year-old.

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  • Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis Quiet neighborhood: Children walk through Howard Subdivision Wednesday afternoon. 12 year-old Alyssa Sedletzeck went missing from there Sunday night.

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May 3, 2012

Sunset ends search for girl; officials plot next steps

Brian Boyce The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — The search for a missing girl was ongoing at sunset Wednesday, and officials were planning their next steps for today.

At 8 p.m., Vigo County Sheriff Greg Ewing said no new information was available concerning Alyssa Marie Sedletzeck, 12, and the area around Hasselberger and Howard avenues off U.S. 41 North had been thoroughly searched.

“We’re still following up,” he said that evening, explaining the multi-agency team was preparing to de-brief and plan the next step.

Earlier that afternoon, cars and emergency vehicles lined the rural roads north of Novelis as teams from local, state and federal agencies brought K9 units out to search the area. By 4:45 p.m., the process was welI underway, and Ewing said the dogs had been brought out to establish a bearing on her scent.

“From what we understand, she has never run away before,” he said, adding the department has leads on the issue, but he declined to specify.

Vigo County School Corporation Superintendent Danny Tanoos was also at the scene, explaining the schools are cooperating in the efforts, working with students and attempting to generate as much information as possible. Sedletzeck is a student at Otter Creek Middle School, he said.

Ewing credited the “good working relationship” the sheriff’s department has with the school corporation, adding agencies from all spectrums of law enforcement are involved in the effort.

Individuals with information that could help with the case are encouraged to call the sheriff’s department at 812-462-3226, the Indiana State Police Post at 1-800-742-0717 or Crime Stoppers at 812-238-STOP.

Brian Boyce can be reached at 812-231-4253 or brian.boyce@tribstar.com.

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