ST. CLOUD 鈥� An extensive, three-day search along the Mississippi River in Stearns County has not yielded any sign of missing 6-year-old Elle Ragin, of Northfield.
The Stearns County Sheriff鈥檚 Office is asking the public to help out. It issued a request on Thursday for people living along or recreating on the Mississippi River from the in northeastern Stearns County to the Sartell Dam to monitor the river area over the next few days.
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Anyone seeing items along the shoreline that related to this investigation should immediately contact the Stearns or Benton County Sheriff鈥檚 Offices.
Police have been searching for Ragin since her mother, Lisa Wade, 39, was found dead by an apparent suicide on July 2 in her Northfield home.
The Northfield Police Department asked the Stearns County Sheriff鈥檚 Office on July 3 to assist in searching the Mississippi River park in northeastern Stearns County. After an extensive search, items received at the park led the Sheriff鈥檚 Office to believe it is possible that at one point the young girl may have been at the park, according to the Sheriff鈥檚 Office.
The three-day search that followed included more than 100 volunteers on foot, several K-9 units, water patrol with side scan sonar, UAVs, the Minnesota State Patrol helicopter and the Stearns-Benton County Sheriff Dive Team.
The investigation and search is continuing. Anyone with information related to it can contact the Stearns County Sheriff鈥檚 Office at 320-251-4240 or the Northfield Police Department at 507-663-9302.
The Mississippi River Park was closed during the three-day search but is now open to the public.
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