Body Found During Search For Girl
Police said Saturday they found an unidentified body in a creek near the home of a 13-year-old who disappeared a week ago.
Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said he could not say whether the body was female, but said it was Caucasian and partially submerged in a creek on a fish farm about a half mile from Sarah Michelle Lunde's home.
Sarah, who has a history of running away, was reported missing Monday, when her mother learned the teen wasn't at a friend's house. She was last seen on April 9, shortly after she returned home from a church trip.
More than 200 volunteers helped police continue the search for Sarah on Saturday.
On Friday, detectives told the searchers to point out any bottles of bottles of Budweiser or Bud Light, which a sex offender allegedly took from the girl's home the day after her disappearance.
David Onstott, a 36-year-old registered sex offender who once dated Sarah's mother, was being held without bond on separate charges. Onstott was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly threatened another man with a screwdriver at a bar. He had spent 5½ years in prison after being convicted in 1995 of sexual battery with physical force.
Gee is not calling Onstott a suspect, but has said Onstott has their attention and detectives are still doing interviews in the case.
On Saturday, Gee said many beer bottles had been found and were being checked to determine if any DNA evidence is on them.
"What that may mean to this case later on, I don't know," he said.
The fathers of two previously slain girls have been involved in the search for Sarah: Mark Lunsford, whose 9-year-old daughter, Jessica, was found dead last month after disappearing from her Citrus County home, and Roy Brown, whose 7-year-old daughter, Amanda, was killed by a convicted child molester in 1997.
"It's kind of like starting over again," Lunsford told CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann. "So, it gives me a second chance
to start hoping some more, because that's what it's all about, hope and faith."