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Search team offers reward
Published February 10, 2006
SEGUIN — The search for a missing 28-year-old woman will have to wait a little longer after Houston-based Texas EquuSearch and members of Search and Rescue Team 8 out of Austin temporarily withdrew from the search for Amber Lyn Smith.
“I think we have covered about all of the ground that we can cover,” said Texas EquuSearch Director Tim Miller. “There’s nothing left for us to do right now anymore on the ground.”
Teams spent much of Thursday searching areas of FM 725 south of Deadman’s Creek and in the area of Sutherland Springs Road for Smith, who has been missing for two weeks.
“What’s nice is all these people who came out to help us and who’ve volunteered to come back and help us,” said Detective Sgt. Maureen Watson. “We are going to keep hoping, and we are going to keep doing everything we can.”
Texas EquuSearch arrived in Seguin on Tuesday to help in the search for the missing mother of two.
In that three-day period, search teams combed vast areas of the county on foot and searched by air using drones and helicopters.
Teams also searched areas of the Guadalupe River near Red Mill Dam Wednesday, returned there Thursday with sonar equipment but found no sign of the missing woman.
Meanwhile, Miller announced EquuSearch will offer a $5,000 reward for information leading to Smith’s whereabouts.
Texas EquuSearch has conducted 521 searches for missing persons since it was founded in 2000.
Miller said in its six-year history, Texas EquuSearch has rarely offered a reward for a missing person, but Miller said his reasons were personal.
“When I held that little 1-month-old baby yesterday and realized how bad that mother needed that baby and Amber’s mother broke down and cried, that’s when I realized that whatever it takes to locate her, we are willing to do,” Miller said. “I think we’ll use that $5,000 reward as just another resource to generate some information.”
Miller said even though they were leaving, he did not rule out returning to continue the search for Smith.
“Whenever we’re needed in Seguin, we’ll be here,” Miller said.
Seguin Police Lt. Mike Watts said the search for Smith may be the most extensive ever conducted in Guadalupe County.
“This is the largest scale search I have ever been involved with,” Watts said. “We have used more resources and used more avenues than I can remember. We are doing everything in our power and everything we can to bring this to a positive conclusion.”
Watts said police will halt ground searches pending further investigation but will continue with periodic searches of the Guadalupe River.
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