× Former FBI Profiler Offers Insight into Leila Fowler Investigation 
 
 VALLEY SPRINGS- 
 
 Squad cars from around Calaveras County descended on Valley Springs to search for a suspect in the violent stabbing death of 8-year-old Leila Fowler. 
 
 “It’s going to be a horrific crime scene. You might think there is some sort of anger issue there,” said Mike Rayfield with Solution Six. 
 
 Rayfield is retired from the FBI, and while he doesn’t have inside information on this case, he has worked similar investigations, profiling murders and kidnappers. 
 
 Investigators say Fowler’s 12-year-old brother was babysitting her at the time of the murder. He reportedly ran into the alleged killer as the man fled the scene. 
 
 While there is no concrete information about a suspect, Rayfield’s experience says the killing wasn’t random. 
 
 “It would be rare that it was a stranger that committed this crime and I would think maybe even more rare in a community like that, in the middle of the street in a rural environment like that where the houses are on one-or-two-acre lots. I would think it would be somebody who has some kind of connection with the home,” said Rayfield. 
 
 In case its one of those rare stranger crimes, Rayfield says investigators could be digging into websites online, and constructing a timeline of the girl’s last few days, using that timeline to look for surveillance video in the area. 

 — Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz vowed Monday evening that he and his officers will hunt down and capture the man suspected of killing 8-year-old Leila Fowler in her home over the weekend. 
 
 This is a sad time in Calaveras County, the sheriff said at news conference outside of the Valley Springs sheriffs substation before a battery of TV cameras, microphones and reporters.  We are doing everything possible to apprehend the person responsible for the murder of this 8-year-old girl. 
 
 We will not rest until we capture the responsible person. 
 
 Dozens of residents packed the news conference to learn more about the slaying that has ripped the fabric of Valley Springs and Rancho Calaveras, two small, close-knit rural towns a couple of miles apart along Highways 12 and 26 and about 30 miles east of Stockton. 
 
 Leilas parents, Barney Fowler and Crystal Walters, stood behind the sheriff and other Sheriffs Department officials during the news conference. The couple was too distraught to speak, but officials relayed the parents concern that the public respect the familys privacy. 
 
 Authorities say an intruder fatally attacked Leila on Saturday in her Rancho Calaveras home. Her 12-year-old brother encountered the intruder, who fled on foot. 
 
 Authorities have said the killer is a white man or Latino, 6 feet tall and muscular. He was last seen wearing a black, long-sleeved shirt and blue pants. He is considered armed and dangerous. 
 
 The Calaveras County coroners office reported Monday that Leila died from shock and hemorrhaging from multiple stab wounds. 
 
 Deputy Coroner Steve Moore said Leila arrived by ambulance at Mark Twain Medical Center in San Andreas at 12:55 p.m. Saturday and was pronounced dead at 1:01 p.m. Moore declined to release other details at the request of investigators. 
 
 Kuntz said it appears that the intruder intended to attack the girl, and that the incident was not a botched robbery or other crime gone wrong. 
 
 Sheriffs officials said they have checked on registered sex offenders and people on parole and probation for sex crimes as part of their investigation. But they stressed they were doing this as a matter of good investigative procedures and not because Leilas slaying is a sex crime. 
 
 Authorities declined to release other details of their investigation, but they appear to have ended their intensive weekend search of Leilas neighborhood for her killer. As many as 100 officers and other personnel searched homes, crawl spaces, attics, outbuildings and the tall grass in the hilly, rural neighborhood where Leila was slain. 
 
 Leila was a third-grader at Jenny Lind Elementary School in Rancho Calaveras. Friends described her as a compassionate, vibrant, energetic child with a smile that would melt anyones heart. 
 
 Jenny Lind Elementary School students attended class Monday with a heavy police presence as sheriffs deputies walked the campus, drove by in their patrol cars and parked near the school grounds. 
 
 There also were about 20 counselors and others on campus to help students and staff deal with the emotional fallout of the slaying. 
 
 There were tributes set up at the elementary school for Leila, including purple ribbons. Purple was her favorite color. There also were ribbons on street sign poles in Leilas neighborhood and at Valley Springs only shopping center and in front of businesses. 
 
 Ninety-two of Jenny Linds 600 students did not attend school Monday, which is more than three times the typical number of absences for a Monday, said Mark Campbell, superintendent of the Calaveras Unified School District. 
 
 Campbell said many parents who kept their children out of school did so because of their concerns over Leilas killer still on the loose. Campbell said counselors and sheriffs deputies will remain at Jenny Lind for as long as they are needed. 
 
 Amanda Leonard was among the scores of parents waiting to pick up their children from the elementary school Monday afternoon. 
 
 Leonard echoed what many parents have said in the past few days about the slaying  that such a horrific, senseless crime is not supposed to happen in their quiet, rural and safe community, where residents routinely keep their windows open and doors unlocked. 
 
 The slaying of the bright 8-year-old also brought out heightened news media attention. More than a half-dozen TV stations from Sacramento and San Francisco had crews in Valley Springs and Rancho Calaveras. CNN had an outsized news van  about three times the size of a typical TV news van  parked near the Valley Springs sheriffs substation. 
 
 Calaveras County sheriffs officials urge anyone with information about the case to call the tip line at (209)754-6030. 

 VALLEY SPRINGS, California -- Investigators interviewed registered sex offenders in the Northern California community where an 8-year-old girl was stabbed to death -- but officials won't say if sexual assault is part of the unsolved crime. 
 
 "They have been interviewed and in some cases they have been photographed and in some cases they have been searched," Calaveras County Sheriff's Capt. Jim Macedo said late Monday night. 
 
 So far, despite an extensive manhunt and beefed-up security at schools in Valley Springs, authorities don't have enough information to name a suspect or even create a composite sketch in the death of Leila Fowler. 
 
 "This is a sad time," said Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz. "We will not rest until we capture the responsible person." 
 
 Leila, an 8-year-old known for her bubbly personality, was stabbed to death at her home over the weekend. 
 
 Her 12-year-old brother says he saw an intruder in the family's home before finding his sister suffering from stab wounds. 
 
 All police have to go with is a sketchy description: a white or Hispanic male with a muscular build, about 6 feet tall, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and blue pants. 
 
 The thought of a killer on the loose in Valley Springs, a small town about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento, has many on edge. 
 
 "When your husband is walking around with a pistol on his hip to protect his family you get a little scared," one shaken woman told CNN affiliate KRON. 
 
 Home alone 
 
 Police say Leila and her brother were home alone on Saturday when he saw an intruder leaving the house. 
 
 He then found his sister stabbed and severely wounded. She died minutes after arriving at the hospital, authorities said. 
 
 Since then, police have been running down leads, searching in attics, storage sheds in the mountainous, rural community. 
 
 Authorities have also combed the home and the neighborhood for evidence. 
 
 "We did collect fingerprints during that search," Macedo said, "and we did collect what we believe to be DNA. Those prints and DNA will hopefully be processed within the next week." 
 
 Parents devastated 
 
 All around Valley Springs, purple ribbons, Leila's favorite color, are tied to stop signs and at schools as the small community tries to find a way to support her crestfallen parents. 
 
 The couple was at a Monday evening news conference listening intently as authorities said they would do everything they could to catch the killer. 
 
 The mother cried throughout the briefing and gasped as a detective read the results of the young girl's autopsy. 
 
 She died, authorities said, of shock and hemorrhages caused by multiple stab wounds. 
 
 The parents were too overwhelmed to speak at the news conference. 
 
 But earlier Monday, the mother spoke to CNN via her Facebook page. 
 
 "We are devastated," Crystal Walters said. "She didn't deserve this. ... She was so full of life." 
 
 A candlelight vigil is planned for Tuesday evening. 
 
 CNN's Paul Vercammen reported from Valley Springs, California. CNN's Lateef Mungin reported and wrote from Atlanta.
– Authorities are still looking for the man who murdered 8-year-old Leila Fowler in her California home Saturday afternoon, and the county sheriff says the stabbing appears to have been intentional—and not part of a botched robbery or other crime. The sheriff didn't elaborate, USA Today reports. Valley Springs, located 115 miles east of San Francisco, was put on lockdown in the immediate aftermath of the third-grader's murder, and many parents are still keeping their children indoors: Schools in the area have an increased security presence, and 92 students at Fowler's elementary school were absent yesterday—more than triple the normal number, the Modesto Bee reports. Investigators are also interviewing registered sex offenders in the area, WPTV reports, though it's not clear yet if sexual assault was involved. Complicating matters is the fact that police have two different descriptions, one from Leila's 12-year-old brother, who saw the intruder before finding his sister, and the other from a second possible witness. (The brother, who was baby-sitting Leila when she was murdered, is not a suspect.) A former FBI profiler says it's unlikely the killing was random or committed by a stranger. "I would think it would be somebody who has some kind of connection with the home," he tells Fox 40. "You might think there is some sort of anger issue there."