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Reported by: Jeremy Beecher Saturday, Apr 18, 2009 @03:00pm EDT After a long winter of waiting, the search for Corrie Anderson resumed today near Jamestown.
It began with a prayer. Then more than two hundred volunteers and experts who filled the Ashville Fire Department’s meeting hall turned to the matter at hand: Finding Corrie Anderson. All suspect the Jamestown woman's body has been somewhere nearby ever since she disappeared on October 31 – and now they say it's time for closure. "It’s an unknown, and we just want to be able to figure out where Corrie is, “and be able to just have an end to this.” "As you see all these people here today,” said Stacy Heiser of Clymer, NY, “I think this shows everyone cares and they need this." And so they set out – 25 groups of five to ten volunteers who’ve volunteered the entire weekends to search local fields, woods and roads, for any sign of Corrie. Saturday’s search was not about precision – it was all about manpower. Put enough people in enough fields near where Corrie lived, the strategy goes, and odds are you'll turn something up. But the road to closure is laden with false alarms. On this morning the closest they came to Corrie were some animal bones, the whole search made tougher by the last few months. But make no mistake -- if they don't find her today, they'll be back. "Hopefully we will recover her today,” said Mandy Albritton of Three View Search Services. “If not, we'll continue tomorrow. If we don't find her tomorrow, we'll regroup and come back in six weeks or so.” No matter what happened, they say, Corrie deserves to rest at last. |