MINNEAPOLIS, July 9 (UPI) -- Minnesota authorities plan to question more than 130 convicted sex offenders in their search for a missing 5-year-old girl.
Leanna Warner of Chisholm vanished more than three weeks ago.
Those targeted for interviews were not called suspects in the girl's disappearance but rather "persons of interest" in the towns of Hibbing, Virginia, Mountain Iron and Buhl, St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Leanna was last seen about 5:15 p.m. June 14 as she knocked on the door of a friend's house 1 1/2 blocks from her home. She was wearing a sleeveless denim dress and was barefoot. A reward and pleas from her parents have generated hundreds of tips.
Lois Warner, Leanna's grandmother, said the family could only wait as law officers did their jobs.
"Sooner or later someone has to open their mouth," she said.
