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Amber Alert - Acacia Patience Bishop
« on: May 27^th, 2003, 11:27am »

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Amber Alert issued for missing girl
Monday, May 26, 2003 Posted: 9:43 PM EDT (0143 GMT)

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- A Utah woman described by authorities as a paranoid schizophrenic was detained Monday in Idaho for allegedly kidnapping her toddler granddaughter. The girl was not found and was in "imminent danger," police said.

Acacia Patience Bishop was last seen at 6 p.m. Sunday with her grandmother, Kelley Jean Lodmell, 38.

A nationwide Amber Alert was issued Monday morning and remained in effect even after Lodmell was found in Idaho Falls, Idaho, about 200 miles north of Salt Lake City.

Two dozen divers scoured the murky Snake River in Idaho Falls after Lodmell told authorities she lost control of the 19-month-old girl while dangling her feet in the water.

Idaho Falls Police Sgt. Steve Hunt said the only evidence of the girl found so far was a pair of baby shoes and a doll left on the river bank.

"We can't say positively that the baby went into the water, though that's what the grandma said originally," Hunt said.

Lodmell had stopped taking medication for her illness, according to Casey Lodmell, her daughter and Acacia's mother.

Acacia was being watched Sunday evening by her great-grandparents in Salt Lake County while her parents attended a wedding rehearsal dinner.

Lodmell had stopped by the home and the girl disappeared when the great-grandmother briefly turned her attention to something else, said Peggy Faulkner, a spokeswoman for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department.

The girl was last seen late Sunday when Lodmell checked into an Idaho Falls hotel along the Snake River, said Sheriff Aaron Kennard. The hotel clerk said he noticed nothing unusual about the pair, Kennard said.

Lodmell was cooperating with investigators but was frequently changing her story, Faulkner said.

Authorities learned that the girl might be in the river after Lodmell ran to a nearby power plant and told an employee that the child was lost in the water.

"She ran in here soaking wet, and said that her baby had fallen in the water," said Ken Lawson, dispatch supervisor with Idaho Falls Power. "She said her baby was in the river, drowning."

The operator on duty immediately shut down the plant, Lawson said, so that the river water would not be sucked toward the turbines that power the plant.

Acacia was wearing a pink sundress with white sunflowers, Casey Lodmell said Monday. She is 21/2 feet tall, weighs 35 pounds and has reddish-blonde hair and blue eyes.

Last year, Kelley Lodmell took Acacia for a half-hour before relatives found them, Faulkner said. Police were not called at that time until after the two were found.

Kelley Lodmell had wanted the girl "for herself," Casey Lodmell said of the incident. Since then, Acacia has spent little time with her grandmother.

Kelley Lodmell pleaded guilty to a 1999 charge of aggravated assault of a police officer.

Monday was the fourth time Utah officials have used the Amber Alert system for a missing child. The first was on June 5, when Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom. She was found on March 12 with her two alleged abductors.

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Acacia Patience Bishop

19 months, light brown hair, 30 inches, 35 lbs white female, was abducted in Salt Lake CIty UT, USA on Sunday May 25. She is wearing a pink sundress with white sunflowers.

Although 38-year-old Kelley Jean Lodmell was arrested by police in Idaho Falls on Monday the 26th, Acacia has not been found.

Divers searched the Snake River at Idaho Falls for the child after the woman, described as a paranoid schizophrenic, told authorities she lost control of the girl while dangling her feet in the water.

Kelley Jean Lodmell, 38, ran to a nearby power plant and told an employee that the child was lost in the river. Dive teams searched the murky river for the girl, Acacia Patience Bishop on Monday afternoon and the search resumed Tuesday morning.

Idaho Falls police Sgt. Steve Hunt said, "We believe at this point that it is likely that the baby went into the water. We haven't ruled this case a homicide ... but we have enough information to convince us this is a homicide investigation."

Anyone with information is asket to call the Salt Lake Sheriff at 801-743-7000.

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