KCK police, FBI continue search for 3-year-old reported missing early Friday morning
UPDATE: Olivia Ann Jansen was found dead, highway patrol confirmed. Updates coming here.
Kansas City, Kansas, police were joined by the Federal Bureau of Investigations Friday afternoon in the search for a 3-year-old girl who was reported missing early that morning.
Olivia Ann Jansen was last seen at her residence in the 4400 block of Gibbs Road, said Officer T.J. Tomasic, a spokesman for the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department.
The highway patrol said that Jansen’s father woke up at 6:30 a.m. and discovered that she was gone. The back door was open. Investigators believe that she was taken from the residence, but do not have suspect or vehicle information. The father last saw Jensen around 11 p.m. Thursday, he told police.
She was wearing a pink top and purple or teal bottoms.
Officers are investigating the incident at two locations, the 4400 block of Gibbs and the 4800 block of Ottawa Street, where police say there is a family connection.
Officer Dustin Dierenfeldt, spokesman for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, said the mother of the missing child is currently incarcerated. Outside agencies are assisting and there is also a community search party.
“A lot of the outside agencies and assisting agencies are providing the assistance just because it is an Amber Alert,” he said.
The state of Kansas issued an Amber Alert. And at the request of the Kansas Bureau of Investigations, the Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued an alert as well.
When asked about the search in a wooded area behind the home, the spokesman said agencies are using several resources to find the girl.
“It is a large wooded area. There’s a lot of debris and it encompasses a vast area,” he said. “We are utilizing K-9s, we are utilizing drones, we’re utilizing traffic. We’re utilizing a lot of different resources to be able to locate this child.”
Amanda Webb, 41, whose 4-year-old granddaughter is friends with Jansen, joined the search Friday.
“When something like this happens in the community we just come together like this and do what we can to try to make things come out right,” Webb said.
The community has passed out more than 2,000 flyers, she said.
“We just really came together as a community to try to bring this little girl home safe,” she said. “Prayers to everybody involved prayers, to the community for reaching out so fast, and we won’t stop until we find out what’s going on.”
Anyone with information about Jansen’s whereabouts is asked to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-8477 or dispatch at 913-596-3000.
This story was originally published July 10, 2020 at 5:07 PM.