Body of abducted girl found in Louisiana

HATHAWAY, LOUISIANA - The body of a 12-year-old girl was found Friday in a gully, a day after she was abducted from outside her home in southwestern Louisiana. <br> <br> Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff Ricky Edwards would not say where exactly Holli Thibodeaux&#39;s body was found, nor how she died. Edwards declined to give any further details. <br> <br> Dozens of FBI agents had joined the search Friday for Holli. She was abducted Thursday at the Hathaway Village Trailer Park after the driver of a pickup stopped to ask for directions to nearby Jennings, Edwards said.<br> <br> The man grabbed Holli, threw her into his truck and drove north on Louisiana Highway 26, Edwards said. <br> <br> Another girl who was with Holli ran and escaped. <br> <br> The FBI released a composite sketch of the suspect and said they were looking for a light blue, full-sized pickup truck with a new silver toolbox and a red-and-yellow ladder in the back. <br> <br> FBI agent Kenneth Kaiser said agents had several leads and had gathered evidence from the site, outside the trailer where Holli lived with her mother, Robyn Cormier, and a 16-year-old sister. <br> <br> Family and friends gathered Thursday outside a high school for a prayer vigil with the family. <br> <br> ``It&#39;s not fair,&#39;&#39; said Halie Blanchard, a friend of Holli&#39;s in the fifth grade. ``Why&#39;d they have to pick her? I mean she didn&#39;t do anything wrong or anything.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Edwards said investigators also are looking into recent reports of attempted abductions in Eunice, 18 miles east of Hathaway, to see if any are similar to Holli&#39;s kidnapping. <br> <br> Hathaway is about 30 miles east-northeast of Lake Charles.

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