Via MPD.

D.C. Police are now searching the National Arboretum for Relisha Rudd, who was eight when she went missing from D.C. General more than two years ago.

According to Police Chief Cathy Lanier, the search includes “a pretty extensive area” and will involve 60 personnel, canine dogs, MPD Harbor Branch divers, the FBI, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, taking two full days.

She said a public tip kicked off this new search. “We certainly want to make sure we let the public know what we’re doing and that we’re continuing to follow up on leads because we want those leads to continue to come in,” Lanier said at a press conference this morning.

In December, 80 police officers and cadaver dogs searched a construction site across the street from the Arboretum in Northeast for signs of Rudd, and came up empty.

Rudd was living with her family at the D.C. General homeless shelter before she was reported missing. Her mother, Shamika Young, said her daughter had been staying with Kahil Tatum, one of the shelter’s janitors, who had prior felony convictions on his record. Shortly after her disappearance, Tatum’s wife was found dead in a Maryland hotel room and his body was recovered in Kenilworth Park. He had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.