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Article from yesterday but I didn't see it posted.
SCOTT COUNTY, Ind. (WDRB Fox 41) -- Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the ex-husband of a woman missing for almost two weeks in southern Indiana.
That warrant is not directly related to her disappearance.
But it does allow officers to keep him in custody.
The search for Nina Keown took several new turns Thursday, but still with no sign of her.
"We fear for the worst. I think that's fair to say," said Scott Co. Sheriff John Lizenby.
The Scott County sheriff's posse headed for fields and woods south of Lexington, Indiana.
While they looked for signs of 26-year-old Nina Keown, other officers looked for her ex-husband, 31-year-old Robert Petty.
They say he's been cooperative in their investigation of Keown's disappearance, but refused to take a polygraph.
And he's been and still is a "person of interest."
"He's always really been a person of interest just simply because he was the last person to see her and because of his criminal background and because of his and hers domestic violence issues," Lizenby said.
"But a suspect yet, I can't go to that level because the evidence hasn't been tangible enough to point to him."
When Clark County issued an arrest warrant for a probation violation on Thursday afternoon, Scott County officers said they couldn't find Petty at home. They had not located him as of 11 p.m. EDT.
Petty has told officers he was the last person to have seen Nina Keown alive late on August 7th, when she walked away from his four-wheeler near State Road 3 and Plymouth Road.
He also is due in court in Scottsburg next week on a domestic abuse charge for allegedly hitting Keown in an argument last April.
"The fact is, we've searched and searched and searched and haven't found anything of where she's at or where she's gone," Lizenby said.
The case has received national attention this week from the Nancy Grace cable TV show.
There now is a $10,000 reward in the case.
Call the Scott County Sheriff at 812-752-8400 or Indiana State Police at 812-246-5424 with any information.
http://www.fox41.com/Global/story.asp?S=13016132
SCOTT COUNTY, Ind. (WDRB Fox 41) -- Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the ex-husband of a woman missing for almost two weeks in southern Indiana.
That warrant is not directly related to her disappearance.
But it does allow officers to keep him in custody.
The search for Nina Keown took several new turns Thursday, but still with no sign of her.
"We fear for the worst. I think that's fair to say," said Scott Co. Sheriff John Lizenby.
The Scott County sheriff's posse headed for fields and woods south of Lexington, Indiana.
While they looked for signs of 26-year-old Nina Keown, other officers looked for her ex-husband, 31-year-old Robert Petty.
They say he's been cooperative in their investigation of Keown's disappearance, but refused to take a polygraph.
And he's been and still is a "person of interest."
"He's always really been a person of interest just simply because he was the last person to see her and because of his criminal background and because of his and hers domestic violence issues," Lizenby said.
"But a suspect yet, I can't go to that level because the evidence hasn't been tangible enough to point to him."
When Clark County issued an arrest warrant for a probation violation on Thursday afternoon, Scott County officers said they couldn't find Petty at home. They had not located him as of 11 p.m. EDT.
Petty has told officers he was the last person to have seen Nina Keown alive late on August 7th, when she walked away from his four-wheeler near State Road 3 and Plymouth Road.
He also is due in court in Scottsburg next week on a domestic abuse charge for allegedly hitting Keown in an argument last April.
"The fact is, we've searched and searched and searched and haven't found anything of where she's at or where she's gone," Lizenby said.
The case has received national attention this week from the Nancy Grace cable TV show.
There now is a $10,000 reward in the case.
Call the Scott County Sheriff at 812-752-8400 or Indiana State Police at 812-246-5424 with any information.
http://www.fox41.com/Global/story.asp?S=13016132
