MORGAN HILL, Calif. - On Thursday night, dozens of FBI agents and Santa Clara County sheriff deputies swarmed the cul-de-sac where Sierra Lamar lives on Paquita Espana Court in Morgan Hill.
They spent hours searching neighbors backyards, even bringing in canines to sniff for clues. They spent most of the night searching a large property right next door to the missing 15-year-old girl's home.
Marc Klaas said he isn't surprised investigators are concentrating in this area.
"There isn't a lot of extraneous traffic. These are people who live here and may very well know this girl's routine and might have taken advantage of that," says Klaas.
For the first time, Klaas met Sierra's family on Thursday. Klaas's daughter Polly was kidnapped and murdered in Petaluma in 1993. A year later, Klass started the KlassKids Foundation to assist with families of missing children.
"We have our search director that will be flying out very soon. Once we get the okay from the sheriff's department we will start doing volunteer searches," says Klaas.
The cul-de-sac isn't the only area, investigators targeted. Less than a quarter mile away on Scheller Avenue, they also targeted a vacant foreclosed home. Detectives even hauled away an evidence kit from the home.
Deputies wouldn't say what led them to these areas or what, if any evidence, they found. All they would say is they're doing a more thorough search.
"Kids have been disappearing from the Bay Area for decades. A lot of those cases become unsolved. At a certain point in time, you have to say enough is enough," says Klaas. "We will do whatever is necessary to bring her home to her family."
Submitted by Azenith Smith, Central Coast News
