Draining of Iowa lake continues in hunt for girls
By DAVID PITTBy DAVID PITT, Associated Press?
?This combo made from undated photos provided by Black Hawk County police shows cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, left, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, who have been missing since Friday afternoon, July 13, 2012. The girls were last seen Friday afternoon leaving their grandmother's house. (AP Photo/Black Hawk County Police via Waterloo Courier)
This combo made from undated photos provided by Black Hawk County police shows cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, left, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, who have been missing since Friday afternoon, July 13, 2012. The girls were last seen Friday afternoon leaving their grandmother's house. (AP Photo/Black Hawk County Police via Waterloo Courier)
A poster with photos of Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, who disappeared in Evansdale last Friday, adorn a utility pole across from the entrance to Meyers Lake in Evansdale, Iowa, Monday, July 16, 2012. Their bikes were found Friday afternoon near a bike trail at the edge of Meyers Lake in Evansdale. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Brandon Pollock)
Volunteers check Meyer Lake in rural Gilbertville, Iowa, during a search for 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins and her 10-year-old cousin, Lyric Cook-Morrissey, on Sunday, July 15, 2012, after the children went missing Friday. More than 350 volunteers joined authorities Sunday in a search for the girls, whose bicycles were found abandoned near a lake.(AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Dawn J. Sagert)
Volunteers continue to search in rural Gilbertville, Iowa, for 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins and her 10-year-old cousin, Lyric Cook-Morrissey, on Sunday, July 15, 2012, after the children went missing Friday. More than 350 volunteers joined authorities Sunday in a search for the girls, whose bicycles were found abandoned near a lake.(AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Dawn J. Sagert)
Volunteers, from left, Justin Ledesma, Chris Kemmer, both from the Dunkerton Fire and Rescue, Liz Chihak, Brittni Gipper and Erin Nunnally, move food from the Kwik Trip semi-trailer to a storage trailer at the Community Resource Center, in Evansdale, Iowa, to serve as an aid in the continuing search for 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins and her 10-year-old cousin, Lyric Cook-Morrissey, on Sunday, July 15, 2012, after the children went missing Friday. More than 350 volunteers joined authorities Sunday in a search for the girls, whose bicycles were found abandoned near a lake.(AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Dawn J. Sagert)
EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) ? Authorities are draining a northeast Iowa lake in the search for two young cousins missing since Friday.
At least 30 FBI investigators have joined the search for 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins and her 10-year-old cousin, Lyric Cook-Morrissey. They were last reported seen Friday afternoon leaving their grandmother's house. Their bicycles and Elizabeth's purse were found later that day near a bike trail at the edge of Meyers Lake in the northeast Iowa city of Evansdale.
Officers paddled around the lake in kayaks on Tuesday morning while others walked the shoreline. One wearing gloves picked up an object and took it to a patrol car sitting nearby.
The lake is less than a mile from downtown Evansdale, where their grandmother was baby-sitting.
Associated Press
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