LINDSEY BAUM: 10-year-old abducted and murdered in McCleary, WA - June 2009 / Remains found 2017 (19 Viewers)

After a decade, knowing didn’t bring relief

Melissa Baum wears a silver necklace holding a small silver pendant with a ruby. Contained within the pendant are half the remains of her daughter, Lindsey.

It’s been 10 years since Lindsey disappeared during a 10-minute walk to her home in McCleary on a hot summer evening June 26, 2009. It’s been a little more than a year since Melissa Baum was told her daughter’s partial remains had been found hundreds of miles away in the middle of the state and she knew for sure her daughter had been murdered.

During the decade that followed her daughter’s disappearance, Melissa has seen her daughter’s friends grow up, graduate from high school, go to college, marry, have children of their own. Melissa has only the memories of the talkative, intelligent, strong-willed girl, frozen in time at the age of 10.

“I’m finally to a point where I’m able to reminisce about her,” said Baum. “I have lots of memories that I’m grateful for.” For example, “She had so much energy. She talked constantly, a mile a minute.”


Closure?

Melissa got a call in early May 2018 from Grays Harbor County Sheriff Rick Scott. He needed to see her, and right away.

“It felt a little odd, he sounded urgent, I didn’t understand,” she said, saying it normally took months to set up a meeting with investigators, and it had been more than eight years without much news to be shared.

The next day Scott and an FBI victim’s advocate showed up at her door.

“I knew there was more to it,” said Melissa, when she saw the raw emotion on Scott’s face. DNA testing from the FBI confirmed a portion of Lindsey’s remains had been found more than six months earlier in Eastern Washington.

“Over the years, when I heard of children’s remains being recovered, I remember feeling twinges of jealousy,” said Melissa. “I felt knowing would bring some relief. It’s been the exact opposite.” Anger, rage and frustration were the result for her.

Days later, at a press conference in McCleary, she spoke to the press and the community about the discovery of her daughter’s remains. She admits it is still difficult for her to visit the town; she moved some time after Lindsey’s disappearance but returned, not to McCleary, but to the area. She continues to grant interviews like this one and make television appearances. As difficult as they are for her, she knows there’s always a chance the right person will see them.

“It’s not over because she’s been found, not even close,” said Baum.

After a decade, knowing didn’t bring relief - The Daily World

Melissa Baum wears a silver necklace holding a small silver pendant with a ruby. Contained within the pendant are half the remains of her daughter, Lindsey.

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Who killed LINDSEY BAUM and why haven't they been brought to justice? There is now a $40,000 reward for info! McCleary, #WASHINGTON June 26, 2009

On June 26, 2009, 10 year old Lindsey Baum was walking home from her friend’s house around 9:15 pm. She never made it home. Her remains were found 8 years later, miles from where she went missing!

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[Guess Who]

That is also assuming that everybody's clocks were set the same and that everybody is exactly correct on what times they state.

 

[Regina]

I don't see the timestamp on the Shell station video but it appears to me it was considerably later 9:19pm.

 

[Kimster]

There was a guy who is messing with my neighbor’s truck and they told me that the guy ran past my house at a certain time and I was looking at my cameras and I didn’t see him and then they said “well it could’ve been this other time, Etc, “and they were right there and they still weren’t sure what time it was.

As for the times on the surveillance videos, surveillance videos weren’t very good back then. A lot of them didn’t have the right time on them because people didn’t know how to program them. I know because our work was one of those.

Or, all the times could be absolutely correct and it doesn’t make sense. I’m sure variables are what detectives have to deal with quite often.

 

[Guess Who]

There was a guy who is messing with my neighbor’s truck and they told me that the guy ran past my house at a certain time and I was looking at my cameras and I didn’t see him and then they said “well it could’ve been this other time, Etc, “and they were right there and they still weren’t sure what time it was.

As for the times on the surveillance videos, surveillance videos weren’t very good back then. A lot of them didn’t have the right time on them because people didn’t know how to program them. I know because our work was one of those.

Or, all the times could be absolutely correct and it doesn’t make sense. I’m sure variables are what detectives have to deal with quite often.

Plus, many also don't get changed when DST starts or ends so often they are 1 hour off.

On things that need to be set manually, people often stop when they get close to the time, especially if they have already tried and passed up the correct time a few times already. My mom also keeps one clock set 10 minutes fast, but she will tell you the time by what that one says since it's the one she uses the most. She will also throw a fit if you forget to set it the 10 minutes fast when changing them for her

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

That is also assuming that everybody's clocks were set the same and that everybody is exactly correct on what times they state.

There was a guy who is messing with my neighbor’s truck and they told me that the guy ran past my house at a certain time and I was looking at my cameras and I didn’t see him and then they said “well it could’ve been this other time, Etc, “and they were right there and they still weren’t sure what time it was.

As for the times on the surveillance videos, surveillance videos weren’t very good back then. A lot of them didn’t have the right time on them because people didn’t know how to program them. I know because our work was one of those.

Or, all the times could be absolutely correct and it doesn’t make sense. I’m sure variables are what detectives have to deal with quite often.

Yep.

And it has been said that the time on the camera at Mike's Market was off. It was actually earlier than the time stamp indicates.

Regardless, and in lieu of arguing over minutes, we know that Lindsey left her house sometime after 8:30. She made it safely to her friend's house, and left that house sometime after 9:00. When it was really getting dark and she had not returned home by around 10:00, her mom called the friend's house and started calling around to other friends.

The authorities would obviously have a tighter timeline. But the reporting has been all over the place for years. (Example: I've seen the 911 call mentioned as being around 10:00 pm, at 10:45 pm, at 10:50 pm, and at 11:00 pm. - And that's one of the easiest things to verify.)