LEAGUE CITY, Texas – All resources are being thrown at finding a missing husband and father from League City. Texas EquuSearch will be using high tech equipment to help find Scott Guseman and his missing truck.

Both haven’t been seen since Monday morning. That’s when Scott left home, headed for work and never made it. His loved ones say he’s a family man, a guy whose social calendar is always booked and would never intentionally disappear.

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Inside the couple’s League City home, all felt right in April Guseman’s world. She and husband Scott are weeks away from their 25th wedding anniversary.

“We are planning a nice weekend in San Antonio for our 25th wedding anniversary,” she said.

First she needs help finding him.

“You’ve got a situation where a person has gotten in their vehicle and just disappeared,” said Bob Walcutt, Laura Recovery Center.

Volunteers with the LRC set up a command post in the parking lot of the Kemah Walmart. Scott was last seen around 8:00 A.M. Monday at the store’s gas station buying cigarettes. About two hours later either Scott or someone else withdrew $100. League City Police are investigating and trying to determine where the withdrawal was made. Since then there’s been no further activity and no sign of foul play.

“The one thing I do know is that he would never just leave voluntarily. I know that. There’s no question in my mind. There’s no question in anybody’s mind that he would ever go voluntarily without contacting us,” said April Guseman.

Volunteers with flyers in their cars are driving from Galveston to Houston looking for Scott’s truck, a 2007 red, Dodge Ram two-door, long bed pick up. It has Texas license plate 84BLT6.

April says Scott left home Monday morning the same way he always does.

“We walk out together at about 7 A.M. and kiss in the driveway, get in our cars and leave,” she said.

Now she and the couple’s two adult sons are just waiting for him to come back.

ROCKPORT — The uncle of the little girl who vanished from a beach here last week said today that the family had not given up hope and believed she may have been abducted, rather than swept away by the water

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David Harrison Jr., uncle of Caleigh Anne Harrison of Gloucester, said the family, which printed out missing-person flyers for her this morning, had a “strong belief” that the little girl had been abducted.

The girl’s mother, Allison Hammond, and father, Anthony Harrison, stood in the background during a news conference at the beach but declined to speak.

David Harrison thanked authorities for their efforts to search for the girl. But he said, “We think we would have found something by now. And that gives us a little bit of hope because if she is somewhere else, we have a chance of finding her.”

State Police appeared to discount the abduction theory. Spokesman David Procopio said that so far investigators had uncovered “no evidence of criminal activity” in the girl’s disappearance.

The agency, which searched the waters off Long Beach today using side scan sonar and a host of divers, planned to search Thursday, one more day, though it could return if new clues are discovered, Procopio said.

Caleigh went missing from the beach, in the area of Saratoga Creek, around noon last Thursday.

Caleigh was with her mother, her 4-year-old sister, and the family dog. When a ball flew over a wall, her mother turned her back to the toddler to retrieve it. Moments later, the girl was gone.

Procopio revealed that investigators, after retracing her steps, believe that the mother may have left the children out of her eyesight for as much as two minutes.

It was “probably closer to the two-minute end of the spectrum” he said.

The toddler is 2 years, 9 months old, with light brown hair and blue-gray eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink top and pink Capri pants. She is under three feet tall and weighs 27 to 35 pounds, State Police said.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Polly Klaas. Elizabeth Smart. Megan Kanka. The names are synonymous with a parent’s worst nightmare: a child snatched by a stranger from the safety of her own home.

Now, police in Tucson, Ariz., are trying to determine what happened to 6-year-old Isabel Mercedes Celis. Her parents say they awoke on Saturday to find her missing. Police said a window was open with the screen pushed aside.

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While officers are investigating all possibilities in her disappearance, experts say, abduction from the home is relatively rare, with just over 18 children taken each year.

“It’s unusual, but it’s not unprecedented,” said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which is involved in the search.

Each year, 58,000 children are abducted by strangers and released, according to the most recent statistics. Of those, 115 were “stereotypical” kidnappings carried out by strangers who either killed the children or held them for ransom. And 16 percent of those were taken from home.

Nearly three quarters of the victims are girls, and 38 percent of them are 12 to 14. At 24 percent, the second largest victimized group is the one Isabel belongs to: girls ages 6 to 11.

In Tucson, the possibility that a kidnapper could be in their midst unnerved some parents.

“I put two-by-fours in their windows this morning,” said Erin Cowan, who has worked with Isabel’s mother at Tucson Medical Center and has a daughter, 7, and son, 12. “I guess you can’t be too careful, sadly.”

Since Saturday, investigators and volunteers fanned across Isabel’s neighborhood and an area landfill searching for clues. Volunteers posted fliers with a photo of Isabel – about 4 feet tall with brown hair and hazel eyes – holding a school award.

Her parents, identified by friends as Becky and Sergio Celis, told investigators they last saw the first-grader at 11 p.m. Friday. Her mother, a nurse, was at work Saturday when her father went to wake her at 8 a.m. and discovered her missing, police said.

Police call the case a “suspicious disappearance/possible abduction.”

“We’re not ruling anything out of the investigation at this point because we really need to keep our mind open about all the information that’s been brought to us,” Police Chief Roberto Villasenor said.

The family released a statement through police Monday evening with their first public comments.

“We appreciate everyone’s interest in finding our daughter, Isabel, and thank all the volunteers who have come out to search for her,” the statement said. “We love Isabel and will never give up finding her.”

The family added that they are fully cooperating with authorities.

On Monday, FBI dogs – one that can find human remains and the other used for search and rescue – went through the family’s home and turned up information that required a follow-up, but police declined to say what that was.

Officers are also interviewing sex offenders in the area. It has become standard practice for all abduction investigations.

When 12-year-old Polly Klaas disappeared during a slumber party in 1993 in California and was strangled by a man with a long criminal record, there were no police protocols, said her father, Marc Klaas.

“Every time a child would disappear, they would invent that wheel all over again,” said Klaas, who travels the country speaking about child abduction. “Now almost every agency in America has some handle on how to launch a missing child investigation.”

Polly’s case served as a model for the FBI’s first missing child protocol and also prompted California voters to pass the state’s three strikes law, which requires harsh prison sentences for repeat offenders.

Congress didn’t pass the federal Megan’s Law until 1996, inspired by the case of 7-year-old Megan Kanka in New Jersey. She was raped and killed by a known child molester who lived across the street. Now federal law requires that every state have a procedure for warning neighbors when a sex offender moves nearby.

John Evander Couey, who took Jessica Lunsford from her home in Florida, lived just down the street. “He had an opportunity to stalk the family,” Allen said. “He went in there for the child.”

In the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart in Utah, her abductor was a handyman the family knew and took her from her bed at knifepoint. Nine months later, motorists spotted her as she walked with her captors.

Investigations have changed since the days the milk carton was the best way to disseminate photos of missing children, as the world was reminded last week when authorities in New York reopened the 1979 case of Etan Patz. The boy was 6 when he disappeared while making his first unescorted walk to the school bus.

Now groups can quickly disseminate photos on the Internet and to the media in the hopes that anyone who may have seen something will come forward with information.

And while social media has worked miracles in spreading the word when a child goes missing, such tools are also used by predators to stalk young people, Klaas said.

“At the end of the day, if some guy out of nowhere sneaks into a little girl’s bedroom and steals her without leaving a fingerprint, we’re in a world of hurt,” Klaas said. “It’s like pulling a needle out of a haystack.”

ROSWELL, N.M. –

The Roswell Police Department needs assistance finding an endangered, missing person.

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Ignacio Vasquez was last seen on Monday afternoon near the Roswell Mall at approximately 1 p.m. He is balding with gray hair and blue eyes, is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs about 170 pounds. He is 87 years old.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Robert Tucker with the Roswell Police Department at 505-575-624-6770.