Police and family members are baffled by the disappearance of a five-year-old girl who went missing from her own bed.
Sheriff's deputies have searched the local neighbourhood house-to-house and a dive team has probed a nearby river but so far no one can account for Haleigh Cummings from Satsuma, a small town in the US state of Florida.
The girl was last seen on Monday night when she went to bed, The Associated Press.
Haleigh's father Ronald has told police he first noticed his little girl was missing when he returned home from work around 3am on Tuesday.
"I just got home from work and my five-year-old daughter is gone," Mr Cummings reportedly told an emergency services dispatcher over the phone.
"If I find whoever has my daughter before you all do, I'm killing them. I don't care if I spend the rest of my life in prison."
Mr Cummings said his girlfriend, Misty Croslin, had been sleeping next to Haleigh but when she awoke, the girl was gone.
"She was sleeping right next to me," Ms Croslin told a local newspaper. "I can't believe I didn't hear anything."
Police say it is not clear if Haleigh was abducted or simply wandered out into the rural neighbourhood that borders St. Johns River and got lost.
The mobile home where she lives had no signs of forced entry — but a back door was open.
Officers from local, state and federal agencies have scoured the neighbourhood, sending dive teams into St. Johns River, interviewing locals and family members, and searching any vehicles departing the area.
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