Search continues for body of missing 3-year-old girl

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 ~ Updated 12:07 PM

KENNETT, Mo. (AP) -- More than four dozen investigators searched a floodway near the Mississippi River on Tuesday, hoping to find the body of a 3-year-old girl who was apparently killed by a neighbor and dumped in a ditch.

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