Sierra LaMar Search Expanded To 2 More Reservoirs

Sierra LaMar, a missing 15-year-old high school student, was last seen on March 16 leaving her Morgan Hill home for school

Police looking for missing California teen Sierra LaMar will widen their search to include two reservoirs near the girl's home.

Sierra LaMar hasn't been seen since she vanished en route to her high school bus stop on March 16. Police breathed new hope -- albeit faintly -- into the investigation by saying that undisclosed evidence they've found has given them fresh leads as they hunt for the 15-year-old from Morgan Hill, station KTVU reported.

Police wouldn't specify what they turned up, but an official told KTVU that it related to evidence sent to their crime lab for tests.

Sonar imaging will aid cops as they scan Calero and Anderson reservoirs later this week, the Los Angeles Times reported. It will be their second round of underwater exploration for the missing cheerleader -- last week police dove into two other nearby reservoirs.

The decision search the water was to make sure they comb every square inch near the teen's home southeast of San Jose.

"It's just to be as thorough as possible," Santa Clara County sheriff’s spokesman Jose Cardoza told the Times. "The investigators just want to be sure."

Her discarded cellphone was found on the side of the road almost a mile from her home. Her bag was also recovered two days after her mother learned that her daughter didn't show up for classes at Sobrato High School.

Volunteers have pitched in to strengthen the search and on Monday night a prayer vigil at a local elementary school commemorated that it has been one month since she disappeared.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact investigators for the sheriff's department at 408-808-4500 or the anonymous tip line at 408-808-4431. Email tips can be sent to [e-mail].

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Comments

[makemesmile]

03:25 PM on 04/18/2012

Does anyone think Sierra's parents might know more than they are telling the police? Her mother seems rather odd to me for some reason.

[The Dude67]

10:16 AM on 04/18/2012

A week or so after this abduction an attempted abduction in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood was thwarted.  A Hispanic male driving a smaller red car with tinted windows used a stun gun on a teenaged girl and tried to drag her into his car.  She was able to fight him off.  Possible connection.

If you live in the San Jose / Morgan Hill area keep your eyes out for the car and the guy.

[danielrsc1]

08:27 AM on 04/18/2012

these people have absolutely no problems just snatching away these young girls....it's so easy for them to do......

[Denisehh3]

01:21 AM on 04/18/2012

I think she is probably alive.........they have got to keep searching........

[Colleen Cooper]

12:57 AM on 04/18/2012

She's beautiful

[jason thomson]

12:43 AM on 04/18/2012

If Sierra is being held captive, i hope she gets a heavy dose of Stockholm syndrome & her abductor buys it, then hopefully her chances of survival increase.

[sanfran55]

11:22 PM on 04/17/2012

It's been over a month since she disappeared - poor girl, poor mother. We can only hope for an Elizabeth Smart-type outcome - that she'll at least be alive, but it doesn't look good.

[jingl]

07:17 PM on 04/17/2012

Can not imagine how her loved ones endure hour after hour... Thoughts and prayers with them