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OGDEN -- The Ogden Police Department's Real Time Crime Center is like something out of a movie. You walk in and information is being researched on several levels.
The Real Time Crime Center is taking information about Alexis Rasmussen, who's been missing for over a month, and turning it into potential leads in her disappearance, helping the North Ogden Police Department in their search for Alexis.
The crime center's staff is using multiple data bases, maps, and other programs to sift through and layer information about Alexis' disappearance -information that may not appear on the surface to be connected or have relevance to any other piece of information in the case. By doing that, the staff can then can potentially provide credible leads to the detectives in the field looking for Alexis.
"Phone records, vehicles, associations, any of those kinds of things that are very time intensive," said Chief Jon Greiner of the Ogden City Police Department.
"They have provided us with a lot of good info, they're taking the data we have and putting it in a format that we can look at and it's giving us a clearer picture," said Detective Paul Rhoades of the North Ogden Police Department.
North Ogden Police say tips and possible sightings of Alexis have been pouring into their department over the past 24 hours. Several of the tips have lead them to the Layton, Clearfield area --but at this point those tips have not panned out.
Alexis has been missing for over a month now. She went missing on September 10th after babysitting for two people who were arrested last week on various drug charges unrelated to the case. Today Detectives clarified that even though the two people who saw Alexis last were arrested on unrelated charges, her case is still a missing person's case and not a criminal case. But they say the pressure is on to find her.
"This is a lot of stress. We really want to bring her home, we really want to find her and we're putting in all of our time to this case right now, this is our number one priority, finding Alexis," said Rhoades.
A majority of this 18 person police department in North Ogden is on this case and there are several other agencies helping as well: Ogden PD with the Real Time Crime Center, the FBI, as well as the Center for Missing and Exploited children. North Ogden Police is hoping that will all this help, and the help from the public, that Alexis will be found soon. Email:spark@ksl.com.
