FBI Searches for Missing 3-Year-Old $45,000 Reward Offered

$45,000 Reward Offered in Search for Missing Missouri Girl

Published August 09, 2011

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This image, provided by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, shows 3-year-old BreeAnn Rodriguez. The girl was last seen on Saturday riding her bike near her Senath, Mo., home.

A total of $45,000 in reward money is being offered in the search for a 3-year-old southeast Missouri girl missing since Saturday.

The FBI is offering $25,000, and the Senath Marshal's office is offering $20,000 in the effort to find BreeAnn Rodriguez. She was riding a small bicycle with training wheels in front of her Senath home on Saturday when she disappeared. Police say neighbors did not see anyone suspicious.

The 30-pound girl was wearing a pink top, and pink and purple pants. At least 200 people searched for her over the weekend, joining police from several agencies, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the FBI.

An Amber Alert was not issued for the girl and police do not know whether she wandered off or was kidnapped.

Police Chief Omar Karnes said the girl lives on a dead-end street and that none of her neighbors saw any suspicious vehicles.

"She was there (then) she was gone," Karnes said. "There is nothing. No trace. We don't have any trail."

Police questioned a person of interest Saturday, but that person has been ruled out as a suspect, Karnes said.

"We're working 24 hours a day until we find her," FBI agent Matt Brummund told KFVS-TV. FBI spokeswoman Rebecca Wu said the agency immediately gets involved when children of a "tender age" go missing for no apparent reason.

"The first hours are very critical," Wu said.

The child's father, Edgar Rodriguez, described her as very friendly but said she would never ride her bike away from the street where the family lives.

Senath is a town of about 1,600 residents in Dunklin County, about 150 miles south of St. Louis.

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