Post by mysticsnowangel on May 22, 2006 20:07:56 GMT -5
CORVALLIS - Police are reviewing surveillance videos from Corvallis businesses in the hope that they will see something that will lead them to Brooke Wilberger, a 19-year-old Brigham Young University student who has been missing from Corvallis for more than a week.
Capt. Bob Deutsch of the Corvallis Police said this morning that investigators had collected tapes from about half a dozen businesses near where Wilberger was last seen, in the parking lot of the Oak Park Apartments on 26th Avenue.
Wilberger, who is from Veneta, had been staying with her sister and brother-in-law, who manage the complex, and doing work outside the apartments when she was last seen at 10 a.m. May 24.
"We have the tape from the Hilton hotel, because of its proximity to the apartments, and I know we have the tape from a Dari-Mart because it is open 24 hours a day," Deutsch said.
Investigators are asking other Corvallis businesses to take a look at pictures of Wilberger, available online at www.findbrooke.org, and then review their surveillance videos to see if they have captured anything of interest to the case.
A television ad and public service announcement about Wilberger's disappearance is also expected to begin airing around the country soon, according to information posted on the City of Corvallis's Web site. Deutsch said he believed the ad had been put together by family and not by police.
Today was the 11th day of the so-far fruitless search for Wilberger, and Deutsch said that they are determined to keep looking until they find something.
"The only reason the search is scaled back is because the number of searchers is less, because of exhaustion," he said.
About 100 searchers today were expected to tackle areas south of the Highway 34 bypass along the east bank of the Willamette River, while others search between West Hills Road, 35th Street and the railroad track.
There are still five people considered "persons of interest" in the case, though police say there is not enough evidence to call any of them suspects. Two that were on the list earlier have been removed, and two others have been added.
"It's just more of the same detective work," Deutsch said.
Detectives are continuing to follow up tips, which now number about 1,200, and are still investigating a report of another attempted abduction near the OSU campus on May 21. Police have not determined whether that incident is linked to the Wilberger case.
Capt. Bob Deutsch of the Corvallis Police said this morning that investigators had collected tapes from about half a dozen businesses near where Wilberger was last seen, in the parking lot of the Oak Park Apartments on 26th Avenue.
Wilberger, who is from Veneta, had been staying with her sister and brother-in-law, who manage the complex, and doing work outside the apartments when she was last seen at 10 a.m. May 24.
"We have the tape from the Hilton hotel, because of its proximity to the apartments, and I know we have the tape from a Dari-Mart because it is open 24 hours a day," Deutsch said.
Investigators are asking other Corvallis businesses to take a look at pictures of Wilberger, available online at www.findbrooke.org, and then review their surveillance videos to see if they have captured anything of interest to the case.
A television ad and public service announcement about Wilberger's disappearance is also expected to begin airing around the country soon, according to information posted on the City of Corvallis's Web site. Deutsch said he believed the ad had been put together by family and not by police.
Today was the 11th day of the so-far fruitless search for Wilberger, and Deutsch said that they are determined to keep looking until they find something.
"The only reason the search is scaled back is because the number of searchers is less, because of exhaustion," he said.
About 100 searchers today were expected to tackle areas south of the Highway 34 bypass along the east bank of the Willamette River, while others search between West Hills Road, 35th Street and the railroad track.
There are still five people considered "persons of interest" in the case, though police say there is not enough evidence to call any of them suspects. Two that were on the list earlier have been removed, and two others have been added.
"It's just more of the same detective work," Deutsch said.
Detectives are continuing to follow up tips, which now number about 1,200, and are still investigating a report of another attempted abduction near the OSU campus on May 21. Police have not determined whether that incident is linked to the Wilberger case.