Missing Florida girl's mother located

(CNN) -- Locating "one big piece of the puzzle" in the case of a missing Florida girl, the FBI on Friday located the estranged mother of 9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford, Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy said.

Jessica -- who is 4 feet, 11 inches tall, weighs 70 pounds and has light brown hair -- was wearing a pink nightgown. She disappeared from her Homosassa home, where she lives with her father and grandparents, and was last seen Wednesday night when she went to bed.

The mother was found in Ohio, her last known place of residence, and is being interviewed by the federal investigators, Dawsy said.

The mother has had very little contact with Jessica over the past eight years, the girl's father Mark Lunsford said at a news conference on Friday, and added he was "convinced that no family member has anything to do with this." He identified Jessica's mother as Angela Wright.

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