UPDATE: MHPD says no new credible leads in search for missing woman; diving group joins hunt

UPDATE, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025: Mountain Home Police Investigator Sam Seamans told radio station KTLO on Tuesday morning there have been no new leads in the search for 95-year-old Belva Day since her Buick LeSabre was reported missing over two weeks ago.

Seamans said Day’s vehicle was last spotted on a surveillance camera at a business in Gepp, Arkansas (Fulton County) on Feb 6.

The investigator said the police department has had several reports of similar vehicles being spotted, but nothing has led to anything credible.

EARLIER, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025:

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.