CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Authorities in Southern California are expected to positively identify the body of a young girl today. The body was found about 75 miles from where a 5-year-old girl was abducted Monday evening. CNN's Anne McDermott reports on the search for Samantha Runnion.</s>ANNE MCDERMOTT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): First, a mother's plea.</s>ERIN RUNNION, SAMANTHA'S MOTHER: Baby, I love you. You are such a good girl. You are so clever. Please, ask your captor to let you go.</s>MCDERMOTT: And then the residents of Stanton, California got into gear, looking for 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, and then a grizzly discovery.</s>SHERIFF MICHAEL CARONA, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: There has been a body of a young girl approximately four to six years of age in Riverside County.</s>MCDERMOTT: Riverside authorities say two men stumbled across the body in a mountainous area used by hikers and hang gliders.</s>CARONA: It would meet the description of Samantha. But we have not confirmed that.</s>MCDERMOTT: The child was snatched right outside her family's town home early Monday evening in what cops call a low crime neighborhood. Samantha's playmate, Sarah Ahn, was the only witness.</s>SARAH AHN, WITNESS: He threw her in the car really quick. Then he left really quick. She said, "Help! Tell my grandma!" And I did.</s>MCDERMOTT: Who he was and what his motive was, well, nobody knows that yet. But 5-year-old Sarah was able to give police this description of the man.</s>CARONA: We'll do the best investigation we possibly can and we're going to bring whoever killed that young lady to justice.</s>MCDERMOTT: Justice, no matter who the killer is, no matter who the victim is. Anne McDermott, CNN, Los Angeles.
Authorities in California Expected to Positively Identify Body of Young Girl Today