Indian girl missing in US: CCTV footage of car sought

Sherin Mathews vanished on October 7 after her adoptive father Wesley Mathews told police he left her outside their home at 3 a.m. as punishment for not drinking her milk. 

While a breakthrough is yet to be made, seized inventory lists show that FBI detectives took DNA swabs, grass, debris and receipts from three vehicles that belong to the Indian-origin parents of the missing girl. They also took a flash drive, seat belt and radio equipment from the family’s Sports Utility Vehicle, Fox News reported. 

A radio module, display monitor and a seat belt were obtained from the Acura SUV that was missing the morning Sherin went missing. The maroon SUV, which belongs to Sherin’ adoptive parents, was not at their home on October 7 between 4 and 5 the morning her father said she disappeared after he put her outside as punishment, police said. Court records show a navigation unit likely from the Acura was sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia. 

“Even if you didn’t plug in an address and say make a right or a left, it’s still recording where you were going. And it’s also going to pinpoint where you stopped,” Attorney Bree West, a former Dallas County assistant district attorney said. Investigators are still looking for possible surveillance footage of the Acura SUV leaving the home of Sherin, as they try to determine who was driving it. 

Wesley has since been arrested, and bonded out, on a charge of child endangerment and ordered to wear an ankle monitor as the investigation continues.