After a television media outlet reported the possibility of a link between Gregory B. Johnson and the disappearance of Lindsey Baum, Grays Harbor Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate said the Sheriff’s Office has no reason to believe there is a connection between the two, but it will look into the cases as a matter of protocol.
The TV news story indicated that 43-year-old Johnson, who is currently in the Grays Harbor County Jail on two charges of rape of a child and two counts of child molestation after a female victim came forward last month, was being investigated in connection with disappearance of Lindsey Baum, who was last seen in McCleary in 2009 when she was 10 years old.
“There is nothing that indicates that he (Johnson) was involved with Lindsey Baum’s disappearance,” Shumate said on Thursday. He did say, however, that the sheriff’s department will look into the issue as a matter of course. “Any time we have an adult male that we believe has offended against females of that age group, we will look into them further to see if they had any connection,” he said.
Johnson started The Gregorian Group, a non-profit organization connected to various volunteer organizations and non-profit causes in Aberdeen.
Baum disappeared on June 26, 2009, after she left a friend’s house in McCleary to walk home. An investigation conducted by local law enforcement has been ongoing ever since. No evidence of her whereabouts has ever been found.
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