Search continues at missing girl's Maple Grove home

May 21, 2014 at 7:34AM
Police officials removed several items and boxes from the Pagnac property, Monday, May 19, 2014 in Maple Grove, MN. Twenty-five years after Amy Sue Pagnac went missing, Maple Grove police, the FBI and sherif's deputies searched her parent's home and property forcing the couple to leave for up to a week while excavations continued on their property.
Police officials removed several items and boxes from the Pagnac property, Monday, May 19, 2014 in Maple Grove, MN. Twenty-five years after Amy Sue Pagnac went missing, Maple Grove police, the FBI and sherif's deputies searched her parent's home and property forcing the couple to leave for up to a week while excavations continued on their property. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Investigators continued to search Tuesday at the Maple Grove home of Amy Pagnac, the 13-year-old who disappeared 25 years ago. Maple Grove Police Capt. Keith Terlinden said that investigators had no new details to release about the case, but that the investigation is expected to continue until at least Friday.

Amy Sue Pagnac disappeared in 1989 from a Holiday gas station in Osseo while her father ran inside to use the restroom, he has said.

On Tuesday, police cars and a Hennepin County Sheriff's Office truck lined the residential street as curious neighbors came outside to watch, two days after local authorities and the FBI abruptly arrived with a search warrant at the house.

Police declined to say what led them to the house, or what they're searching for. Pagnac's parents told the Star Tribune this week that they believe their daughter is alive and was abducted for sex trafficking.

KELLY SMITH

Amy Sue Pagnac at the time she disappeared.
Amy Sue Pagnac at the time she disappeared. (Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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