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Alex Cabrero Reporting It's been almost three years since the Bishop family of Murray saw their baby girl, Acacia. Now, a new picture gives them new hope of finding her.
Ever since his mother-in-law took his 19-month old daughter Acacia to Idaho Falls in 2003, he never believed her story of her drowning Acacia in the Snake River. He says he knows she's out there somewhere.
Looking back on your child's baby pictures can make any father smile. This picture, this simple pencil sketch, makes Adam Bishop cry.
Adam Bishop, Acacia's Father: "It makes me imagine how she would look and how it would be to still have her in our lives at this time."
Divers never found Acacia Bishop's body in Idaho Falls' Snake River.
Adam Bishop: "It was 2003, May 25th."
And almost three years later, still nothing.
Adam Bishop: "There still hasn't been a body found, and the longer that goes, the more concrete our purpose is, and out feelings that prove what we felt."
What he and his wife feel is very strong that Acacia's grandmother, Kelley Lodmell, now in a Texas mental hospital, kidnapped her, took her to Idaho Falls, and made up a story of drowning her.
Police found Lodmell in the water, but never Acacia. And witnesses never saw a child with her to begin with.
Adam feels Lodmell gave his daughter to someone, either to get her later or for money in some type of child-selling ring.
Adam Bishop: "We have letters from Kelley that says by her own admission, that whoever has her, she hopes is taking care of her."
That's why this age-enhanced sketch done by Project Eden and the Child Seek Network is so important. If she is out there, someone might recognize her.
Adam Bishop: "I still see her as the little tiny baby, you know, and obviously she keeps on growing. Gives us a little bit more hope, and a little bit more wood on the fire to get her face out there."
To make that sketch, the artist took Acacia's last picture, and mixed it with her father's and mother's baby pictures at that age to come up with what she might look now.
