The Camden County Sheriff has released a response to a civil lawsuit filed after a two-year-old child went missing and was eventually found dead.

Edgar started his Facebook post by sharing his condolences with the family for their loss.

Isabelle O’Bryan walked away from her home on Tenney Road in Roach, Mo., in Camden County on March 3, 2025.

Her body was found later that evening in Bollinger Creek Cove at the 44-mile mark of the Lake of the Ozarks.

Her parents, Justin Haas and Katelee O’Bryan, filed a civil lawsuit against several people, including the directors and employees of the Missouri Department of Social Services and Missouri Children’s Division.

The lawsuit also includes two detectives from the Camden County Sheriff’s Office, Dakota McGuire and Andrew Morgan.

Sheriff Chris Edgar posted on the sheriff’s office Facebook page that they learned of the lawsuit while watching the news.

Sheriff Edgar stated that allegations made against the employees of his office were “factually false.”

Haas and O’Bryan claimed that the Camden County detectives treated the parents like suspects while their daughter was missing, instead of focusing on the search.

Edgar said his team were focused on finding the girl, which the sheriff and a deputy eventually did.

The lawsuit also claims that the detectives got a search warrant for their home and searched another residence that was not covered in the warrant.

Edgar said deputies entered the residence after getting consent from the...

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