07:48 AM PDT on Tuesday, April 11, 2006

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LAKEWOOD, Wash. – Police are upping to $60,000 the reward for information related to the disappearance and murder of 10-year-old Adre’Anna Jackson and searching for a man they think may have information related to Jackson’s disappearance.

Lakewood Police Chief Larry Saunders said Police wanted to talk to Spencer Douglas Grant, who they described as a person of interest who may know something about a transient encampment near where Jackson's remains were found.

“We believe that he’s aware of what’s going on at the camp. He may not have been living at the camp,” Saunders said.

Grant is described as a transient and known drug user with outstanding warrants for his arrest.

Grant's girlfriend Julia Warren said Grant was actually the first to find Jackson's remains, coming across them weeks before kids discovered them April 4.

"He told me he found the skull and wanted me to look at and see if it might be Adre'Anna … and I told the police this," Warren said.

"I didn't think about it until my son came in told me they found some bones in the field ... and I remember him telling me that," she said.

Jackson's partial remains were discovered  behind some berry bushes by several boys playing in a vacant lot at 146th Street Southwest and 76th Avenue Southwest.

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Police on Monday announced they were searching for Spencer Douglas Grant on the belief that he had information about the lot where the remains of Adre-Anna Jackson were found.

The increased reward money comes courtesy of the FBI, which contributed the additional $50,000.

FBI Special Agent in Charge, Laura M. Laughlin said the reward was for anyone who had information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of  those responsible for Jackson’s disappearance and death.

Saunders said all 17 of his investigators in the Lakewood Police Department were on the case along with crime scene specialists from Tacoma, Seattle and King County.

In all, he said, about 200 pieces of evidence had been collected, but were still seeking the public’s help in solving the case.

“That’s the hope that we’ll spark some interest and get somebody involved,” he said.

KING 5's Paul Aker contributed to this report.