Police said the body was found near the 'Aiea Loop Trail about 2 p.m today. The body was found by a hiker, who called police.

Honolulu police officer Joe Self made a tentative identification based on appearance and the clothing on the body.

Police said they are not focusing on anyone in particular who may have been responsible for the death.

"As of yet, we have no suspects in mind," said Darryl Perry, police major in the criminal investigation division.

Police are still on the scene, an area accessible from the trail.

Detectives ask anyone who may have seen anything suspicious on Tuesday afternoon connected to Kahealani's disappearance to call police.

Earlier today, search teams with dogs walked portions of the Pearl Harbor bike path near McGrew Point as police continued looking for the girl.

Police also returned earlier today to Kahealani's Makalapa housing project near Aloha Stadium to look for clues into her disappearance. They spent most of yesterday searching the area around the Pu'uwai Momi complex without success.

No clues surfaced by mid-day despite an intense police sweep yesterday of mountains, streams, hiking trails and surrounding neighborhoods.

Family members had been trying to cope with another day of unanswered questions. Lori Moreno, the girl's aunt, today said before the body's discovery that the family was relieved last night that police had made "a clean sweep" of the area.

"It was a relief for the family but the stress of Kahealani being out by herself another night is hard for the family," she said. "We wish that whoever has her would let her go. With all the publicity and the prayers, hopefully that person will realize he should let her go."

Maj. Darryl Perry, head of HPD's Criminal Investigation Division, said police will try today to interview 37-year-old Douglas Kruse, a distant relative of the missing girl through marriage who was arrested last night at the Pu'uwai Momi complex on an unrelated parole revocation warrant.

Kruse was intoxicated at the time of his arrest so police did not try to talk to him yesterday. He is being held at the O'ahu Community Correctional Center.

Because he was reportedly at the housing complex Tuesday and knows the girl, police want to interview Kruse, said Perry. Kruse is not a suspect in the girl's disappearance at this point, Perry added.

The FBI has offered technical help to police. "The FBI has offered resources to us to input info and do computer analysis that will help us study facts," Perry said.

Police also will set up traffic checkpoints in the area today between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. to see if any motorists may have seen the girl Tuesday.

"We want to make sure we haven't missed anything," Perry said.

Kruse told the girl's relatives and neighbors last night that he did not know Kahealani was missing, or that police were looking for him in connection with the case.

Kruse was arrested shortly after 9 p.m. at the housing complex in Makalapa, where Kahealani and her family live. Kruse was wanted for criminal contempt and felony burglary and theft warrants.

Kahealani's older sister, Tanya Tumbaga-Mamala, 18, last night said Kruse is the father of one of her cousins. She said she didn't think he was capable of harming the girl.

"He loves my sister as his own daughter. He would never do anything to harm her," Tumbaga-Mamala said.

She said Kruse does not have a car but was visiting his daughter at the housing complex Tuesday and left about 10 p.m.

Last night Kruse returned to the complex shortly before 9 p.m. He expressed surprise when residents told him that Kahealani was missing and that police wanted to talk to him, according to relatives and neighbors who asked not to be identified.

Kruse said he did not want to go to prison and became agitated, a relative said. Residents kept him there until police arrived. He struggled with police as they handcuffed him, they said.

Kahealani, a sixth-grader at 'Aiea Elementary School, was last seen near her Kohomua Street home in the Pu'uwai Momi housing complex around 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Before last night's arrest, Officer Joe Self said he didn't believe Kahealani to be a runaway.

"She is a straight-A student at school, she has never run away before," Self said at the police department's command center, which was set up at Aloha Stadium.

"My inner feeling is not good," Self said. "We're treating it as a worst-case scenario, but we're hoping for the best."

Self said police have looked into rumors that a man may have picked up Kahealani in a car Tuesday afternoon but weren't able to substantiate those reports.

A $10,000 reward is being offered by an anonymous donor for any information leading police to Kahealani's safe return, said attorney Michael Green, whose family is related by marriage to the Indreginals.

Police Chief Lee Donohue visited the command center and talked to Kahealani's family. "I just want to assure them that we are bringing all the resources that we have into this, and try to locate our girl," he said.

Police said Kahealani and a friend had stepped off a school bus Tuesday from 'Aiea Elementary outside the housing complex and bought manapua from a lunchwagon. The two girls walked back to the complex and the pair split up when they arrived at the friend's townhome unit. Kahealani never arrived home, police said.

Vincent Indreginal, the girl's father, said he and Kahealani's mother, Lehua Tumbaga, were at his mother's Wahiawa home Tuesday afternoon and evening when Kahealani disappeared. On the way back to Halawa, they stopped at Kmart to pick out a Christmas tree that Kahealani had specifically asked for. Her father said Kahealani had been left in the care of her 17-year-old brother, but the brother thought Kahealani was with her parents.

When the parents returned home about 10 p.m., everyone realized Kahealani was missing, Indreginal said. "After that, we just went crazy looking for her," he said.

But the hour was late, and Indreginal said he was hesitant to knock on every door in the complex. Some of his children did, although not everyone answered.

"I was just hoping that she was at a neighbor's house or at her uncle's house in 'Aiea," he said. "I didn't want to think the worst. I hoped it was a nightmare and I would wake up."

The family did not notify police until 8 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities said the first few hours after a disappearance are critical in finding a missing child.

"Now that I think about it, I should have called police first," Indreginal said. "It might have been better if I did. I just didn't want to think the worst."

On Wednesday morning, police swarmed into the surrounding neighborhoods and interviewed 'Aiea Elementary faculty and students. CrimeStoppers put out a public plea for help and police set up the command center to coordinate the search efforts.

About 40 Honolulu police officers, including members of the Specialized Services Division, and three search dogs fanned out around the Pu'uwai Momi housing area and other residential neighborhoods.

Police went door-to-door and checked nearby Halawa Stream and numerous manholes, trash bins and fields for clues. A police helicopter inspected the scene from above, checking the mountains and hiking trails above Ha lawa Heights.

Kahealani is of Hawaiian and Filipino ancestry, 5 feet 2 and 110 pounds with a slim build. She has brown shoulder-length hair and brown eyes, police said. She was wearing a beige corduroy long-sleeve shirt and beige corduroy pants and had four gold Hawaiian bracelets on each wrist. She was also carrying her schoolbooks in a dark, baby blue Roxy-brand backpack, according to her family.