A diving group specializing in locating missing people in water has joined the search for a missing Mountain Home woman.
Chaos Divers, a team of certified divers based in Harrisburg, Illinois, was on the White River between Batesville and Oil Trough on Monday, using sonar and drones to help find 95-year-old Belva Day, who has been missing since Feb. 6.
Authorities say surveillance footage from businesses tracked Day’s 2004 beige Buick LeSabre (license plate: USADOGN) through the town of Gepp in Fulton County. However, Day’s family believes she may have traveled as far as Southside.
Jonesboro television station KAIT spoke with a Chaos Divers representative, who said the group has been receiving updates on Day’s case from both the family and a Facebook group tracking the investigation.
“We have a lot of Chaos Divers family in Arkansas, and they were very quick to reach out and say, ‘Hey, this woman has been missing. No one has found her. She’s completely vanished,’” Chaos Divers Manager Lindsay Bussick told KAIT’s Alejandra Hernández.
Bussick said the group will be in Newport on Tuesday to continue the search.
To read the KAIT article, click here.
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