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PORTLAND (AP) – Saying they are growing desperate as time passes, relatives of a missing Massachusetts woman are offering a $10,000 reward for information that might lead to the former Portland resident.

“Someone has to have seen her,” said Chris Moran, sister of Lynn Moran, the 24-year-old woman who was last seen at about 11 p.m. on Oct. 10 in Portland’s Old Port section. “She is striking. She turns heads.”

Since Moran’s disappearance, police and others have searched in Portland and South Portland without finding anything. Now, a police investigation has moved into Massachusetts, where Moran works. Her address is in Shrewsbury, Mass.

Portland police are investigating numerous leads, but Acting Police Chief Tim Burton would not specify what they are.

Moran’s family members spoke at a news conference on Friday. Her five siblings and mother, Bonnie, offered the reward. “With every hour and day that goes by, our sense of desperation increases,” said the missing woman’s brother, John Moran.

“The overwhelming support we have received from our family, friends and community are sustaining us,” Bonnie Moran said.

Family members said it would be unlike Lynn, who is employed by Eliot Community Human Services in Massachusetts, to neglect her work running group homes for foster children or to remain out of touch with them for days.

Lynn Moran grew up in Portland and Windham and moved to Massachusetts several years ago. She vanished after visiting relatives in Windham during the Columbus Day weekend. On Oct. 10, Moran had lunch with friends on Congress Street and later stopped at an acquaintance’s apartment.

She was later seen alone in the Old Port, barefoot and wearing a man’s shirt. Police said she left her cell phone and pocketbook in the apartment.

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