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Originally appeared in Walker County Messenger, 04/05/2007
Investigators aren’t slowing down in the search for missing 911 dispatcher Theresa Parker,” Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said Thursday.
“The search is still on,” Wilson said. “It’s on every day.”
Investigators are continuing to conduct interviews and sorting through information that has already been collected, he said.
“The GBI, FBI and sheriff’s office are all working together to try and find Theresa Parker,” Wilson said.
People from the community and all across the nation have called Wilson’s office with suggestions and officers are responding to them as fast as they can.
“None of those tips have really led us to her discovery, or obviously we would be reporting that,” he said. “We’re trying to follow up on all the leads and tips that come in because we are still encouraging people to call in. We want to make the determination whether it’s a valid tip or not.”
Regardless of the fruitless leads, Wilson said he feels Parker is nearby.
“My gut feeling is that she is in a 25-mile radius of LaFayette,” he said. “That’s just a hunch with no really strong evidence. But going on cell phone records and those type of things, that’s in the radius that I just described.”
Some observers have asked about the road construction related to the widening of U.S. 27 between LaFayette and Trion. Construction workers have moved hundreds of tons of dirt during the project to widen the highway from two to four lanes.
“I’m sure hundreds of cubic yards of dirt and chirt have been moved along Highway 27 between LaFayette and Trion,” Wilson said. “That’s something that we thought about early on when she came up missing but we can’t go down there and move the dirt again unless we have good reason to and we have not had a good reason to do that.
“Many tons have been moved in the last two weeks as a matter of fact,” he said.
Others have said Parker may be in Savannah for some reason.
“If she is (in Savannah) I’d like to know where,” Wilson said.
More discussion revolves around a meeting Parker was supposed to have with her husband, Sam, a sergeant with the LaFayette Police Department. The couple were reportedly to meet somewhere together to sign papers that might be related to their ongoing divorce. Wilson would not elaborate on the rumors.
“That has been talked about but I don’t want to get into that,” he said. “That could be evidence in the case.”
Authorities drained a pond near Parker’s Cordell Road residence and finished searching the area Wednesday, but found nothing, he said.
“Each day becomes more discouraging as you go on and you do not have anything real solid to go no,” he said. It gets discouraging.”
Originally appeared in Walker County Messenger, 04/05/2007
Investigators aren’t slowing down in the search for missing 911 dispatcher Theresa Parker,” Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said Thursday.
“The search is still on,” Wilson said. “It’s on every day.”
Investigators are continuing to conduct interviews and sorting through information that has already been collected, he said.
“The GBI, FBI and sheriff’s office are all working together to try and find Theresa Parker,” Wilson said.
People from the community and all across the nation have called Wilson’s office with suggestions and officers are responding to them as fast as they can.
“None of those tips have really led us to her discovery, or obviously we would be reporting that,” he said. “We’re trying to follow up on all the leads and tips that come in because we are still encouraging people to call in. We want to make the determination whether it’s a valid tip or not.”
Regardless of the fruitless leads, Wilson said he feels Parker is nearby.
“My gut feeling is that she is in a 25-mile radius of LaFayette,” he said. “That’s just a hunch with no really strong evidence. But going on cell phone records and those type of things, that’s in the radius that I just described.”
Some observers have asked about the road construction related to the widening of U.S. 27 between LaFayette and Trion. Construction workers have moved hundreds of tons of dirt during the project to widen the highway from two to four lanes.
“I’m sure hundreds of cubic yards of dirt and chirt have been moved along Highway 27 between LaFayette and Trion,” Wilson said. “That’s something that we thought about early on when she came up missing but we can’t go down there and move the dirt again unless we have good reason to and we have not had a good reason to do that.
“Many tons have been moved in the last two weeks as a matter of fact,” he said.
Others have said Parker may be in Savannah for some reason.
“If she is (in Savannah) I’d like to know where,” Wilson said.
More discussion revolves around a meeting Parker was supposed to have with her husband, Sam, a sergeant with the LaFayette Police Department. The couple were reportedly to meet somewhere together to sign papers that might be related to their ongoing divorce. Wilson would not elaborate on the rumors.
“That has been talked about but I don’t want to get into that,” he said. “That could be evidence in the case.”
Authorities drained a pond near Parker’s Cordell Road residence and finished searching the area Wednesday, but found nothing, he said.
“Each day becomes more discouraging as you go on and you do not have anything real solid to go no,” he said. It gets discouraging.”