Police in Nassau are searching for teacher Leah Walsh, 29, last heard from at 6:30 a.m. Monday, when her husband said she sent him a text message. Her car was found abandoned with a flat tire on the Seaford- Oyster Bay Expressway on her way to work. Her husband, William Walsh made an appeal Tuesday morning for her safe return, speaking to reporters outside Leah Hirschel Walsh's family home in Rockville Centre. He stood in his in-laws' driveway at 11 a.m., handing out copies of his wife's photo to reporters. "Please get the picture out. We just want her back," said Walsh. "You can have my cars. You can have everything. I just want my wife back." Walsh says the last time he heard from his wife was when he got a text message from her Monday morning. Asked where she is, he says, "I got no clue." Leah's purse was found on the side of a highway near her disabled car on Monday, and the police issued an alert about 24 hours later. The Nassau police department is treating the investigation as a simple missing-person case, not abduction. "She loves her job. She loves children. She wouldn't let the kids down," said her mother, Mattie Hirschel who says she doubts that her daughter disappeared deliberately. "Just bring her back," Hirschel said. "She's my baby." Crime Stoppers accepts confidential tips at 800-244-TIPS.

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