08-09-2010, 02:52 PM
i keep waiting to hear they've found a body, but we have ocean, cranberry bogs and sharks. all helpful in hiding a body.
By Cape Cod Times
August 09, 2010
WEST BARNSTABLE — State and Barnstable police and members of the Barnstable County Sheriff's Department are searching the woods area near the power lines off the Service Road in West Barnstable and Sandwich this morning.
The large-scale search — that includes about 30 people and a state police helicopter — is connected to the investigation into the disappearance of Trudie Hall, 23, the Nantucket woman who has been missing for almost two weeks.
Two police officers were seen at about 11:20 a.m. coming out of a wooded area on Crooked Cart Way in West Barnstable carrying a brown bag, the type that is commonly used in evidence collection.
Several canine teams are scouring a wooded area off the Service Road between Route 6 exits 3 and 5. Members of the West Barnstable Fire Department are also on the scene along with the Red Cross, which is providing water and other supplies for the searchers.
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe arrived at the scene at about 10:30 a.m. and was seen talking with investigators. He would not comment about the search saying he will make a statement when “it's appropriate.”
Investigators have been searching the area for about two hours, according to a source at the scene.
Vivienne Walker reported her daughter missing on July 28 after trying unsuccessfully to reach her by telephone all day. Hall, who is four months pregnant, left Nantucket July 27 for the Cape to go to a doctor's appointment. She checked into a Yarmouth motel with her husband that same day. In a phone call from the Cape on July 27, Hall told her mother she was going to the movie with a friend.
Three days after Hall was reported missing, the police searched areas in Hyannis and in West Barnstable near the commuter parking lot off Exit 6. On Thursday, a Barnstable County Sheriff's inmate work crew found a gun near Route 6 in the Mid-Cape area, according to the police.
Barnstable police Lt. David Cameron said the work crew member found the gun Thursday and turned it over to the inmate work crew supervisor. Cameron did not know the make, model or the owner of the gun. He also could not confirm where exactly it was found, but said it may have been in Yarmouth or Barnstable.
It's unclear whether there is any link between the weapon and the disappearance of Hall.
Technically, the search for Hall is a missing-persons case, although privately some police have said they believe the young Nantucket resident is dead. According to law enforcement sources, blood and body tissue, as well as bullet casings, were found in a rental car associated with Hall.
helicopters up too. click...
By Cape Cod Times
August 09, 2010
WEST BARNSTABLE — State and Barnstable police and members of the Barnstable County Sheriff's Department are searching the woods area near the power lines off the Service Road in West Barnstable and Sandwich this morning.
The large-scale search — that includes about 30 people and a state police helicopter — is connected to the investigation into the disappearance of Trudie Hall, 23, the Nantucket woman who has been missing for almost two weeks.
Two police officers were seen at about 11:20 a.m. coming out of a wooded area on Crooked Cart Way in West Barnstable carrying a brown bag, the type that is commonly used in evidence collection.
Several canine teams are scouring a wooded area off the Service Road between Route 6 exits 3 and 5. Members of the West Barnstable Fire Department are also on the scene along with the Red Cross, which is providing water and other supplies for the searchers.
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe arrived at the scene at about 10:30 a.m. and was seen talking with investigators. He would not comment about the search saying he will make a statement when “it's appropriate.”
Investigators have been searching the area for about two hours, according to a source at the scene.
Vivienne Walker reported her daughter missing on July 28 after trying unsuccessfully to reach her by telephone all day. Hall, who is four months pregnant, left Nantucket July 27 for the Cape to go to a doctor's appointment. She checked into a Yarmouth motel with her husband that same day. In a phone call from the Cape on July 27, Hall told her mother she was going to the movie with a friend.
Three days after Hall was reported missing, the police searched areas in Hyannis and in West Barnstable near the commuter parking lot off Exit 6. On Thursday, a Barnstable County Sheriff's inmate work crew found a gun near Route 6 in the Mid-Cape area, according to the police.
Barnstable police Lt. David Cameron said the work crew member found the gun Thursday and turned it over to the inmate work crew supervisor. Cameron did not know the make, model or the owner of the gun. He also could not confirm where exactly it was found, but said it may have been in Yarmouth or Barnstable.
It's unclear whether there is any link between the weapon and the disappearance of Hall.
Technically, the search for Hall is a missing-persons case, although privately some police have said they believe the young Nantucket resident is dead. According to law enforcement sources, blood and body tissue, as well as bullet casings, were found in a rental car associated with Hall.
helicopters up too. click...