Search efforts for a missing 19-month-old girl from Salt Lake County are being coordinated from a newly opened office in downtown Idaho Falls.
On Wednesday, the nonprofit Rape Response and Crime Victim Center donated its extra office space on Constitution Way, across the street from the Idaho Falls Police Department, to the family of Acacia Patience Bishop, said Acacia's father, Adam Bishop.
The office will be the staging area for about a dozen family, friends and volunteers who will coordinate search efforts and centralize the distribution of missing posters. A toll free telephone tip line is expected to be working by the end of the week.
Acacia's parents continue to believe their daughter is alive after allegedly being kidnapped May 25 by her grandmother, Kelly Lodmell.
Police and prosecutors, however, have a different theory. They believe Lodmell, who allegedly suffers from a mental illness, drowned the child in the Snake River in a murder-suicide attempt. Lodmell is in Bonneville County Jail charged with the murder and kidnapping of Acacia.