NEWSFLASH - If you commit a crime and go to jail you will be separated from your children and you, not society, is who's responsible for that sad situation. The only firewall at play here is the one between your brain the ability to understand logic at a 7th grade level.
NEWFLASH - "If you commit a crime and go to jail you will be separated from your children" but your children will not be jailed. See the difference?
I don't know that calling off the ground search implies anything more than they have covered every square inch of the county. I hope your source is right Tom and they are onto a lead that helps find her.