Abduction was considered a possibility by police early on in the Tamra Keepness case, search warrants obtained by the media indicate.

However, the Regina Police Service kept saying publicly there was no indication the little girl had been abducted.

Tamra was found to be missing on July 5. Her sixth birthday was on Wednesday.

The warrants were for searches conducted in between July 7 and 9 and 20 and 21 at the Keepness home in inner-city Regina. Portions of the documents were released by a judge following a request from the Regina Leader-Post newspaper.

Before they were give to the media, a Crown prosecutor edited the documents to protect the investigation and witnesses.

According to the warrants, police found blood in the home's front porch, on the floor and on bicycles located in the front porch.

For the first search, Terry Edwards of the Regina Police said in a sworn statement that he had "reasonable grounds to believe and does believe that on or about the 5th day of July 2004, Tamra Jewel Keepness was abducted at 1834 Ottawa Street."

He believed there were reasonable grounds to believe that evidence of an abduction would be found inside the home.

Some blood was found. It reportedly belonged to Russell Sheepskin, who had been in a fight that night with Tamra's stepfather Dean McArthur. The scrap happened about four hours after Tamra was last seen.

Sheepskin said in a media interview he checked on the kids right before the fight and everything was OK.

Keepness said after she put the kids to bed, she went over to a friend's house and left Sheepskin to look after the kids.

In the second search, police wanted to look for blood on a couch that may have come from Lorena Keepness, who told police she had cut her thumb while climbing into the home through a window on July 5.

Keepness and McArthur deny there was a party in the house that night or that there were strangers around.

Speaking with reporters this past week, Regina Police Chief Cal Nicolls said while it was a possibility she was the victim of a random act, "is it likely? Probably not."

He said that while officers hold out hope that Tamra will be found alive, it's more likely that a body will be found.

An intensive search was carried out after the little girl was reported missing. More than 1,000 tips poured in, but still no trace has been found of Tamra. There is a $25,000 reward for information that would lead to the authorities discovering her whereabouts.

There have been tensions between the police and the Keepness family -- especially after Lorena's other children were removed by social workers.

With files from The Canadian Press