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Weather Delays Efforts
By Robert Rizzuto
rrizzuto@post-journal.com
POSTED: March 27, 2009
The community search for a missing Busti woman has been postponed due to weather.
The family of Corrie Anderson, who has been missing since Oct. 28, said that rain in the forecast will prevent the search from starting next week.
Laurie Keefe, one of Ms. Anderson's cousins, said that with the amount of people signed up to help there was no way to make it work without a little sunshine.
"We have almost 1,000 people who have signed up to help us and with that many people, you have to accommodate them with shelter if the weather is bad," she said. "We just didn't have any way to do that so we had to move the dates back."
The community search will be led by Texas EquuSearch, a non-profit group that was established in 2000 and has participated in more than 1,100 searches in the U.S. and abroad.
Tim Miller, the director and founder of the group, will be in Chautauqua County Monday to meet with Ms. Anderson's family and potentially announce the new dates for the search.
Ms. Anderson, a mother of three, was last seen at about 1:10 p.m. on Oct. 28, when she visited her boyfriend, Mike Samuelson, at the Lake County Dodge dealership on Washington Street in Jamestown.
Her mother, Vicki Acquisto, reported her missing about 3:45 p.m. that day, when Ms. Anderson didn't show up at her son Zack's school for a meeting. Police say items found at her house on Wellman Road suggest she made it home some time prior to her disappearance.
Two days later, her Dodge Caravan was found in a field off of an access road on Kortwright Road, not far from her home. That vehicle was then sent to Batavia where the New York State Police performed a forensic search. The results of that search have not been released.
"We are so grateful to the community for all their support ever since the day Corrie went missing," Ms. Keefe said. "It was a tough decision to postpone the search but we feel it was the right thing to do for now. We are hoping that everyone will stick with us as we look forward to setting a new date for the community search."
The New York State Police are leading the investigation into Ms. Anderson's disappearance and will reportedly be providing logistical support for the search.
There are currently several rewards in place which can be collected anonymously for information about Ms. Anderson's location or leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for her disappearance.
Both the Greater Buffalo Metropolitan Crime Stoppers and the Warren County, Pa., Crime Stoppers are offering unspecified rewards in addition to a $20,000 reward being offered by Ms. Anderson's family.
Anyone with information is asked to call the state police at 665-3113, the Greater Buffalo Metropolitan Crime Stoppers at 225-8172, or the Warren County Crime Stoppers at 800-832-7463. All calls and information will be kept confidential.