Tennessee deputy dog rescues missing 6-year-old girl

Tennessee deputy dog rescues missing 6-year-old girl

An intense around-the-clock search for a missing 6-year-old Tennessee girl involved multiple law enforcement agencies, drones and airplanes equipped with thermal imaging, but ended when a deputy dog sniffed out the child allegedly being hidden in a rural shed by her father, authorities said. Fred, a bloodhound member of the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, is being showered with praise for rescuing the girl authorities allege was kidnapped by her dad. "He licked her face and she gave him a big hug," K-9 Deputy Richard Tidwell of the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office said of the scene that unfolded Friday in Pea Ridge, Tennessee, about 100 miles northeast of Nashville near the Tennessee-Kentucky border. The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office launched a search for the girl, Kinzleigh Reeder, on June 21 after the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, which had been granted custody of the child a few days earlier, reported her missing when they could not locate her, officials said.