Jessie Smith vanished mysteriously Wednesday night June 13. Fifteen hundred people volunteered Thursday for a mission of mercy, to try and find Jessie Marie Davis, the pregnant Stark County woman who hasn't been heard from some nine days now. Searchers and cadaver dogs hit on an area and FBI evidence crews and law enforcement probed an area of freshly dug earth discovered by volunteers.
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| Jessie Davis Search Comes Up Empty, Resumes Friday |
The team of volunteers, which included members of Jessie Davis' family, came upon the area just after noon. The area was six-foot long and about three-feet wide. Team leaders with the search team, which included law enforcement, probed the area and ordered in more crews. Several cadaver dogs reacted strongly to the area but came up empty
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Then the massive effort was first delayed by a passing thunderstorm. And then the site turned out to be a pot plot, about 6-feet long and 3-feet wide, said Stark County sheriff's Capt. Gary Shankle. "We knew there was a possibility it wasn't going to be her," said Scott Wilson, a spokesman with the FBI, which is assisting the Stark County Sheriff's Office. "Now, we go on with the investigation and find out what happened to Jessie."
Davis, due to deliver a girl on July 3, vanished sometime after a June 13 phone conversation with her mother, Patty Porter. She was reported missing last Friday after Porter arrived at Davis' Lake Township duplex and found only her daughter's 2-year-old son, Blake Davis.
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Authorities have talked with and searched the home of the man who fathered the son of the 26-year-old Davis, although investigators have repeatedly said Canton police officer Bobby Cutts Jr. is not a suspect. Cutts, 30, says he had nothing to do with Davis' disappearance. The woman's family says he is also the father of Davis' unborn baby.
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