Investigators are still communicating with the suspect and "have no reason to believe that the child has been harmed, " Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said Wednesday evening.

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Late Thursday night, that's where the child and his kidnapper remained -- with no sign the boy had been harmed, said Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson, but no indication a breakthrough was imminent, either.

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Laura Dale was 28 years old and in good health when she found she was expecting her first child.

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