Police searched a California apartment complex and questioned several people in the kidnapping and killing of a 5-year-old girl, the local sheriff said on Friday in a case that has gripped the United States. Three search warrants were issued on Thursday night in the hunt for Samantha Runnion's killer, said Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona. "It is one more lead in this case," Carona said in a television interview. "They were based upon information, tips that we had and we felt that there was enough there to issue a search warrant." He said the warrants were served at an apartment complex in Lake Elsinore, California, not far from where the girl's nude, bruised body was found dumped by a forest road less than 24 hours after she was snatched on Monday outside her home in suburban Orange County, south of Los Angeles. The sheriff also said police were questioning several people in the case but would not elaborate.