11-24-2010, 10:05 PM
Town of Clay (WSYR-TV) - Sheriff's investigators are attempting find the driver of a pickup truck seen near the Watson home the day 20-year-old Jenni-Lyn Watson disappeared. A tip about the pickup truck was phoned in to the Sheriff's Department tip line, leading to Undersheriff Warren Darby calling it, "a vehicle of interest."
They're looking for a dark-colored pick-up truck that was reported to have been near Donegal Way on November 19 between 7:00am and 3:00pm. Onondaga County Sheriff's Detectives are hoping the driver of the vehicle could have information that could help them in their investigation.
Anyone with information on the truck or its driver should call the Sheriff's Office at (315) 435-3081.
Although the information about the pickup truck is the newest development in the investigation, the search for Jenni-Lyn did continue throughout in the Town of Clay. So far about 600 acres have been searched in an area targeted as an area of interest by Jenni-LYn's cell phone records.
Wednesday, investigators searched along waterways, rail tracks and throughout the overgrowth for any clue about the missing woman's whereabouts. In all, 22 people searched as part of six teams made up of Wilderness Search and Rescue, Oswego County Search and Rescue, Cayuga County Search and Resuce, Massasauga Search and Rescue and Eagle Valley Search Dogs.
Oswego County Search and Rescue representative Roger Fox says they're looking for even the smallest clues. "We're looking for evidence. Things that might have been left, whether it's a footprint, wallet or a pair of glasses, something like that. We figure that if we're looking for the small things, we're more apt to see the large things - as opposed to the other way around," he said.
In addition to the search in the Clay area, Undersheriff Warren Darby reported Wednesday that detectives had visited Erie, Pennsylvania, where Jenni-Lyn was a student at Mercyhurst College. "We've been talking to anyone who knew Jenni-Lyn, including people that she dated, both here and down in Erie," he said.
Detectives also spoke with faculty and staff at the college. Those interviews, Darby says, have not yielded a person of interest but have provided a lot of useful background about the missing woman.
Additionally, Undersheriff Darby announced Wednesday evening that the Lamar Outdoor Advertising company has facilitated the spread of electronic billboards with Jenni-Lyn's photo nationwide. The image is already being shown on seven billboards in Central New York, but Darby says it may be important to extend public awareness about the search. "We don't know where she is, and it might be anywhere during this 5 day stretch that we're looking at," he said.
So far, the physical search has been performed entirely by professionals and the public have been asked not to perform a search of their own. That may change this weekend, Darby says, but for the time being the Sheriff's Department is still asking the public to refrain from searching in the same area as search and rescue teams.
They're looking for a dark-colored pick-up truck that was reported to have been near Donegal Way on November 19 between 7:00am and 3:00pm. Onondaga County Sheriff's Detectives are hoping the driver of the vehicle could have information that could help them in their investigation.
Anyone with information on the truck or its driver should call the Sheriff's Office at (315) 435-3081.
Although the information about the pickup truck is the newest development in the investigation, the search for Jenni-Lyn did continue throughout in the Town of Clay. So far about 600 acres have been searched in an area targeted as an area of interest by Jenni-LYn's cell phone records.
Wednesday, investigators searched along waterways, rail tracks and throughout the overgrowth for any clue about the missing woman's whereabouts. In all, 22 people searched as part of six teams made up of Wilderness Search and Rescue, Oswego County Search and Rescue, Cayuga County Search and Resuce, Massasauga Search and Rescue and Eagle Valley Search Dogs.
Oswego County Search and Rescue representative Roger Fox says they're looking for even the smallest clues. "We're looking for evidence. Things that might have been left, whether it's a footprint, wallet or a pair of glasses, something like that. We figure that if we're looking for the small things, we're more apt to see the large things - as opposed to the other way around," he said.
In addition to the search in the Clay area, Undersheriff Warren Darby reported Wednesday that detectives had visited Erie, Pennsylvania, where Jenni-Lyn was a student at Mercyhurst College. "We've been talking to anyone who knew Jenni-Lyn, including people that she dated, both here and down in Erie," he said.
Detectives also spoke with faculty and staff at the college. Those interviews, Darby says, have not yielded a person of interest but have provided a lot of useful background about the missing woman.
Additionally, Undersheriff Darby announced Wednesday evening that the Lamar Outdoor Advertising company has facilitated the spread of electronic billboards with Jenni-Lyn's photo nationwide. The image is already being shown on seven billboards in Central New York, but Darby says it may be important to extend public awareness about the search. "We don't know where she is, and it might be anywhere during this 5 day stretch that we're looking at," he said.
So far, the physical search has been performed entirely by professionals and the public have been asked not to perform a search of their own. That may change this weekend, Darby says, but for the time being the Sheriff's Department is still asking the public to refrain from searching in the same area as search and rescue teams.