OH - Katelyn Markham, 22, Fairfield, 14 August 2011 *Media Links Only*

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Katelyn is 5'3", 130 pounds with green eyes and brown hair with highlights.

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Reward offered for missing Fairfield woman
An anonymous donor has put up a $3000 reward for information leading to a missing Fairfield college student. 22 year old Katelyn Markham was last seen on Saturday, August 13th.
Local 12 has also learned that the cyber crimes unit of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI) is now working with Fairfield Police as they try to find Markham.
Fairfield Police admitted for the first time on Wednesday that they suspect foul play in the case of a missing woman. Markham was reported missing on Sunday, August 14th. The night before, her fiance John Carter says she sent a text message-which included a photo of herself-to him. That was the last time anyone heard from Markham. She didn't show up for work the next day at either of her two jobs-at the Art Institute of Ohio or David's Bridal.
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Katelyn Markham remains missing and foul play suspected
Katelyn Markham vanished a few days ago from Fairfield, Ohio and her friends and family members are frantically searching for her. Today's update in the case comes with revelations that make this disappearance seem like something horrible may have happened. Investigators on the case even admitted today that they suspect foul play in the disappearance of Katelyn Markham.
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Ring could lead to missing woman
The investigation intensified Wednesday for the Fairfield woman who disappeared over the weekend.
Katelyn Markham's family hopes if you get a look at her engagement ring, you might be able to help them find her.
They say if someone finds the ring it could be a major lead to where she is.
The picture of the ring is a little blurry, relatives say there are six or seven diamonds that form a zig-zag. The band is yellow gold.
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Fairfield woman missing her belongings remained home
The Fairfield Police Department is asking the community’s help in locating 22-year-old Katelyn Markham.
On 08-14-11, the Fairfield Police Department received a report from family members that they had been unable to contact Ms. Markham and that she did not report for work on 08-14-11.
Currently, there is neither direct evidence of foul play nor a reasonable explanation for her disappearance. The Fairfield Police Department is continuing continues its investigation.
Katelyn Markham is from Dorshire Drive, is 22, 5 feet three inches, 130 pounds, with green eyes and brown hair with blonde streaks.
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Friends remain vigilant in search for missing woman
New details are emerging in the disappearance of Katelyn Markham.
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Detectives search missing woman's home
Detectives spent the day searching the townhome of a missing Fairfield woman. They were looking for any tidbit that could tell them what happened to her.
Friends and investigators are not giving up on trying to find out what happened to Katelyn Markham. Investigators say she was last seen by her fiance, John Carter, Saturday night.
Detectives spent hours in Markham's home Thursday looking for anything that could be out of place or that would help them figure out what happened.
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Last message from local missing woman was photo sent by text
Katelyn Markham was supposed to be blowing out birthday candles Tuesday to celebrate her 22nd birthday. Instead, family and friends spent hours looking for any sign of her whereabouts after she was last seen late Saturday.
More than 100 people joined police and fire crews in a search and rescue effort near her Fairfield townhouse on Dorshire Drive around 3 p.m. Tuesday. When rescue efforts were wrapping up around 7 p.m., there still were no signs of Markham.
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Prayer vigil set for missing southwest Ohio woman
A prayer vigil is set for Friday evening on behalf of a 22-year-old southwest Ohio woman reported missing last weekend
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Police release 911 call reporting Katelyn's disappearance

Police have released the 911 call that Katelyn Markham's fiancee placed to report her missing.

Markham, 22, of Fairfield, has been missing since Saturday when she didn't show up for work.

The community has been scouring the neighborhood every day near her town home since her disappearance, and still, police are not indicating any evidence of foul play.

Markham's fiancee, John Carter, called police on Sunday, Aug. 14 to report her missing.
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Vigil conducted for missing Fairfield woman day after authorities search home
About 100 people gathered Friday night for a vigil for Katelyn Markham, a 22-year-old woman who has been missing since Sunday evening.
Those in attendance at Fairfield West Baptist Church wore looks of both concern and hope on their faces as they lit candles and consoled each other regarding the Fairfield resident’s disappearance.
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Police zero in on missing Fairfield woman's town home

Police spent Wednesday securing 22-year-old Katelyn Markham's town home, the last place the missing student was seen. The Fairfield woman hasn't been seen since Saturday night.

Katelyn's fiancé last saw her around 11:30 Saturday night, after he left her townhome on Dorshire Drive. He then received a picture message that she had taken of herself around midnight and hasn't heard from her since.
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Woman still missing after week long search
A young woman, described by family and friends as happy and with no enemies seems to have vanished.
Katelyn Markham had her life figured out, according to family. She was set to graduate next month from the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati, was engaged to her high school sweetheart and was looking forward to moving to Colorado in October.
“She’s positive, outgoing and motivated. She had a plan and she was sticking to it,” said her father, Dave Markham.
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Authorities searching for missing woman prepare for worst case scenario
As more time passes since Katelyn Markham was last seen, authorities say they are preparing for the worst case scenario.
“We hope for the best, but we’re preparing for the worst,” said Fairfield police Chief Mike Dickey. “Clearly on this spectrum, it’s possible we’re going to end up in a worst case scenario here. Are we headed in that direction? I think we have to think about it that way.”
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Reward increased for information on Katelyn
A reward for information on the disappearance of Katelyn Markham has been increased to $5,000.
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Fiance' of missing woman speaks out
The fiancé of Katelyn Markham is speaking out almost two weeks after she was last seen.
John Carter, 23, said he's doing whatever he can to help the investigation, even if he feels as if the community is placing the blame on him.
"People are going to say what they're going to say. You can't stop them," Carter said.
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Markham case reaches national audience as search continues
The missing persons case of Katelyn Markham, who was last seen Aug. 13, made national news Thursday night as the search for the 22-year-old Fairfield woman continued.
Katelyn’s fiance, John Carter, and several experts not affiliated with the case were interviewed by Nancy Grace for her show on CNN’s Headline News.
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Nancy Grace 08/25/2011

Search for missing woman continues at Gilmore Park
The Fairfield community is still searching for a local woman who was reported missing almost two weeks ago.
About 30 people gathered Gilmore Park on Thursday night to look for any sign of 23-year-old Katelyn Markham.
"It's hard to focus on daily things with that constantly on the back of your mind, someone missing like that," said Jim Carter, the father of Markham's fiancé.
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Police seriously considering foul play
Fairfield Police Lt. Kevin Haddix says police are now seriously considering foul play is involved in the disappearance of Katelyn Markham.

Markham, of Fairfield, was last seen by her fiancee, John Carter, the night of Aug. 13. When he didn't hear from her the next day, he reported her missing.

The case was featured on CNN's Nancy Grace on Thursday night. Grace spoke with John Carter over the phone. She ask him about the text he received from Katelyn the night she went missing - a picture of a picture.

"I don't know they were up in her room, you know she liked to send me pictures all the time, she always has," Carter told Grace.
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Eerie similarities between missing women
Friends of another Fairfield woman who disappeared 14 years ago know what Katelyn Markhams friends and family are going through. They've been there. The cases are different, but the emotions are very much the same.
22 year old Katelyn Markham vanished from her Fairfield condo earlier this month. 23 year old Laney Gwinner disappeared after leaving a Fairfield bowling alley in December 1997. What the cases share is extreme emotions. As Local 12's Deborah Dixon shows us how Laney's friends remember it all too well.
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Many people giving financially to help find woman
On Saturday it will be two weeks since 22-year-old Katelyn Markham was last seen at her Fairfield town home. Police still have very little information to where she might be, but tell Fox 19 they are strongly leaning toward foul play in this case.

"I just want someone that knows something to say it, speak up," said David Markham, Katelyn's father. "Somebody knows something, and we need to know that."

No one with information regarding Katelyn's whereabouts is speaking up.
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Missing woman's supporters will search again
Despite receiving national media attention, there have been few leads or tips related to Katelyn Markham, a 22-year-old who was last seen Aug. 13 in her Dorshire Drive townhouse.
Thursday evening, Markham’s case was highlighted on Nancy Grace’s television show on CNN’s Headline News.
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Search for Katelyn continues

Volunteers are resuming the search for Katleyn Markham on Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. This comes after a search in Harbin Park on Saturday turned up possible clues in the case.

According to the search's organizer, volunteers at another search location uncovered a Converse shoe, a hooped earring, and a phone that matched the description of Katelyn's cell Saturday. All items found were handed over to investigators. Police have not yet confirmed whether any of the items did in fact belong to Markham, but several posts on a Facebook page dedicated to the search for Markham say family members do not believe the items belong to her.
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Katelyn's friends still on quest for clues
Matted grass. Piles of sticks. Mounds of dirt. Jewelry. Tire tracks.
Those were just a few of the potential clues nearly 100 volunteers were looking for Saturday afternoon as they combed the wooded areas around Harbin Park for any signs that could provide answers in the missing persons case of 22-year-old Katelyn Markham.
The Fairfield graphics arts student was last seen in her Dorshire Drive townhouse around 11 p.m. Aug. 13.
Saturday's search was the sixth held since she was reported missing Aug. 14.
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Markham search finds phone, earring
More than 100 volunteers spent Saturday afternoon looking for 22-year-old Katelyn Markham.
The Fairfield woman was reported missing on August 13 and last seen at her townhouse off Dorshire Drive.
During the search, volunteers found a cell phone, cell phone battery, shoe and a hoop earring all within a 10 feet area near Lick Road.
Victoria Chafin organized the search and said Lick Road is a notorious area near Harbin Park.
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Fiance: Items found don't belong to missing woman
New hope in the search for a missing Fairfield college student. Katelyn Markham went missing August 13. Everything she had was left behind - except her red blackberry. Saturday, search crews looking for clues found a similar phone off Lick Road in Fairfield.
A bright phone in a tumble of weeds, it's the closest thing to a clue anyone has found. It was found off Lick Road and police entered the phone into evidence. The search organizers tell us that the search team also found a phone battery, then a hoop earring and a black converse sneaker. Katelyn's fiancee told us the phone definitely does not belong to her. He says her phone had a green gem on top, this one does not. Katelyn's fiancee also says she didn't wear hoop earrings and her black converse shoes were too small, so he doesn't believe any of the items were hers
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Help arriving from Texas in search for missing woman
Friends and family of Katelyn Markham resumed their search Sunday, after Saturday's sweep of a local park turned up items that friends initially hoped might provide clues to her disappearance.
About 150 family members, friends and volunteers searched for 22-year-old Markham in Harbin Park on Saturday afternoon.
Police said volunteers found a cellphone battery, an earring and a shoe -- things Markham's friends initially said looked like her belongings. Later that night, family members posted on Facebook that they do not believe the items are Katelyn's. Markham's father told News 5's Karin Johnson that the items did not belong to his daughter.
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Missing Ohio woman's fiance has 'gut feeling' she's alive
The fiance of missing Ohio woman Katelyn Markham believes that she is still alive despite having vanished over two weeks ago.

"My gut feeling is that she's alive and that she's ok," John Carter told ABCNews.com. "I have to believe she's alive. I have to believe that I'm going to have her in my arms soon."

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Texas EquuSearch invites volunteers to search for Markham
Search organizers hope for a big turnout on Thursday for a massive search to find any clues in the disappearance of a missing Fairfield woman.

Texas EquuSearch, an organization known for its work in the search of missing people in high profile cases, has established a command center, in Fairfield, to help the community search for Katelyn Markham, 22.

Tim Miller, the agency's founder and director, met with fellow search team members and the Fairfield police on Wednesday morning to review maps and pinpoint locations for the search.
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Experts to search for missing woman Thursday morning
Friends, family and local agencies searching for a missing Fairfield woman are about to be joined by a group with a long string of searches behind them.
The Texas EquuSearch Group will begin helping search for Katelyn Markham at 8 a.m. Thursday.
"We came up here to do what we've done 1,200 plus times before and hope that we can end up with some results," Tim Miller said.
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Texas search team maps area to look for Katelyn Markham
Texas EquuSearch, a search and recovery team, scouted the area Wednesday as they work to organize a search to locate Katelyn Markham, who was last seen Aug. 13.
The organized search comprised of volunteers and Texas EquuSearch members is scheduled for today. Volunteers must be at least 18 and have a photo identification and are asked to check in at the Texas EquuSearch’s local headquarters at Fairfield West Baptist Church, 5345 Muskopf Road. Long pants and good walking shoes are recommended, said Tim Miller, founder and director.
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Texas EquuSearch founder prepares for Markham search

Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller says the search for a missing 22-year-old Fairfield woman is one of the most challenging searches he has ever been involved in.

Miller has led his organization on more than 1200 searches in the last eleven years. The search for Katelyn Markham is difficult, he says, because, "A majority of the time there is something to lead us in some right direction, but we have nothing."

Miller and colleague David Radar spent Wednesday scouting areas to search, looking at dozens of maps of Butler County. Thursday's search will focus within a five to eight mile radius of Markham's townhome, the last place she was seen the night of August 13th.
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Missing woman's father grateful for search organization
Roughly 150 volunteers searched in small teams in Fairfield and other surrounding communities as part of a massive search to find a missing Fairfield woman.
"If it were one of my children that were missing I hope that people would turn out to help me," said Angie Dunaway of Green Township.
Dunaway was a member of a team that walked along Eaton Road in Hamilton Thursday afternoon.
Dunaway said she felt compelled to come out and search.
"We need to get this done."
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Intensive search for Katelyn begins
More than 120 people - including Katelyn Markham's fiancé John Carter - gathered early Thursday at Fairfield West Baptist Church for the most intensive search yet for the missing 22-year-old art student.
Markham's father, Dave, was among them and stood before the crowd during a briefing on ground rules for the search coordinated by Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team.
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Police find clue about missing woman
The fiance of a local woman who has been missing since Aug. 14 has changed his story about taking and passing a polygraph test.
When John Carter appeared on Nancy Grace’s CNN show Aug. 25, he said he took and passed a polygraph test concerning the disappearance of Katelyn Markham.
But when Carter appeared again on the show Wednesday evening, he said he had not taken one, but he would if he was asked.
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Searchers comb remote area looking for missing woman
A small group of volunteers is helping a Texas group search in the oppressive heat for any sign of a missing Fairfield woman. So far, they've found nothing of significance to leave them to Katelyn Markham.
The 22 year old went missing nearly three weeks ago. According to our partners at the Hamilton Journal News, police have determined the location of the cell phone tower that Markham's phone last pinged or received a signal from. But, police are not revealing that location. Police say the phone was turned off at 12:45 a.m. on the day she was reported missing, August 14th.
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Markham's fiance explains conflicting statements made to Nancy Grace
Katelyn Markham's fiance, John Carter, is explaining conflicting statements he made to HLN's Nancy Grace.

Carter reported Markham missing the evening of Aug. 14 after not hearing from her all day.

Grace asked Carter during an interview last week if he had taken a polygraph test and he said that he did.

However, during another interview on Wednesday night, Carter said that he didn't take a polygraph.

Carter explained the discrepancy to FOX19's Jennifer Grove on Friday.
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Search for Katelyn comes up empty
Searchers for missing college student Katelyn Markham plan to take a few days off after finding nothing during eight hours of looking during Saturday's brutal heat.
"We covered a lot of ground today, but the heat was a killer," said Tim Miller, founder and director of Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team, which is coordinating efforts to find the missing Fairfield woman.
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Nearly three weeks later, still no sign of Katelyn
Maybe there was nothing about the last known movements of Katelyn Markham that indicated anything was amiss in the 22-year-old college student's middle-class, suburban life.
Then she vanished.
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Texas EquuSearch temporarily suspends search for Katelyn Markham
The Texas group organizing a massive search for a missing 22-year-old Fairfield girl is temporarily suspending the search for the rest of the weekend.

Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller says the search is being suspended due to the extreme heat in the area and to give searchers time to "decompress." Miller will be returning to Texas for the rest of the weekend to help with a fundraiser for the organization.
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Search for Katelyn comes up empty
Searchers for missing college student Katelyn Markham plan to take a few days off after finding nothing during eight hours of looking during Saturday's brutal heat.
"We covered a lot of ground today, but the heat was a killer," said Tim Miller, founder and director of Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team, which is coordinating efforts to find the missing Fairfield woman.
"I decided to suspend the search for a few days to let everybody step back and decompress," he said Saturday night.
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Three day search yields no clues
Hundreds of people banned together Saturday with a common goal — to find clues leading to the location of Katelyn Markham.
Markham, 22, of Fairfield has been missing since Aug. 14. Saturday’s search from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. wrapped up a three-day search by Texas EquuSearch, a search and recovery team involved in past searches for Natalee Halloway in Aruba and Caylee Anthony in Florida.
Dave Rader of Cincinnati is also a member of EquuSearch. He became involved with the group when Anthony went missing. Rader said about 230 people gathered Saturday — with another collective 200 searching Thursday and Friday.
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Search for missing woman resumes today
A Texas search is back in the Tri-State this morning and plans new searches today to look for a missing Fairfield woman. Texas Equusearch founder Tim Miller organized another search for 22 year old Katelyn Markham this morning.
The group was here last week, hunting wooded areas and well-traveled spots alike, but found nothing of significance to lead them to Markham, who went missing more than three weeks ago.
We'll let you know the results of today's efforts here on Local12.com.
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Searchers battle rain for Katelyn Markham
Despite rain and chilly temperatures, over a hundred volunteers turned out Thursday to search for Katelyn Markham.

Markham, 22, was reported missing on Aug. 14.

Texas EquuSearch organized Thursday's search after spending a few days regrouping and planning what to do next.

Some of the volunteers came from hundred of miles away.
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Cadaver dogs help with search for Katelyn Markham
The search for Katelyn Markum is now getting help from the STARR search team out of South Carolina, they're unleashing their canine unit using cadaver dogs in the search.

Buddy, a 4-year-old pitbull, is the latest tool searchers are using the help find Markum.
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Texas group suspends search for Katelyn Markham
On Saturday more than 130 people searched for Katelyn Markham.
Like all the other searches since the 22-year-old college student vanished on Aug. 14, this one – which began at 8 a.m. and ended about 7:30 p.m. – was unsuccessful.
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Police chief discusses Katelyn Markham case
Since Katelyn Markham was reported missing on Aug. 14, police have been largely silent about their investigation into her disappearance.
For the first time Thursday, Fairfield's chief of police spoke exclusively with WLWT about his department's investigation.
Chief Mike Dickey said that at this point they still don’t know what happened to Markham.
"We don't know whether she is a voluntary disappearance or something significant has happened to her," Dickey said.
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Texas group suspends search for missing woman
Texas-based Equusearch conducted a search on Saturday, which included cadaver dogs. It's the second time the group has come to the Tri-State to search for Markham. On both occasions, nothing was found.
An assistant search director said the group will now hand over its efforts to law enforcement.
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Friends plan new search for Markham
A fundraiser is planned to help the nonprofit search organizations and church that led an effort to find Katelyn Markham, while her friends put together another search for the missing 22-year-old college student.
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Missing Ohio woman's fiance has 'gut feeling' she's alive
The fiance of missing Ohio woman Katelyn Markham believes that she is still alive despite having vanished over two weeks ago.

"My gut feeling is that she's alive and that she's ok," John Carter told ABCNews.com. "I have to believe she's alive. I have to believe that I'm going to have her in my arms soon."

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Benefit planned for search efforts
A benefit for Katelyn Markham, the 22-year-old Fairfield woman missing for more than a month, has been organized by friends of her family to help offset costs associated with search efforts.
Markham’s father, Dave Markham, said the October benefit is a way to thank Texas EquuSearch, Search Tactics and Rescue Recovery (STAR) and Fairfield West Baptist Church, as well as to cover ongoing expenses, according to a statement on the TES website.
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Volunteers uncover new clues in missing person search
Investigators may have caught a break in a missing persons case.
On Sunday, organizers said volunteers took part in a search of Billy Disilvestro and Katelyn Markham in some overgrown land on West Elkton Road near Hamilton schools.
After searchers began sifting through the area, one woman found what was described to be bones.
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Bones Found During Search Not Human: Volunteers Find Deer Bones While Searching Sunday
POSTED: 11:41 am EDT September 26, 2011

HAMILTON, Ohio -- Bones found during a missing persons search on Sunday are not human.

The Butler County Sheriff's Office said Monday that the bones are those of a small deer.

The bones were discovered in some overgrown land on West Elkton Road near Hamilton by volunteers searching for evidence in the disappearances of Katelyn Markham and Billy Disilvestro.

The bones were taken to the sheriff's office so they could be examined by a forensic pathologist....
 
Benefit for Katelyn Markham search
The father of missing artist Katelyn Markham sees evidence in her paintings and in her resume. Dave Markham is just starting to collect his missing daughter's artwork. Some of it was still at the art school where she was to graduate. Katelyn had her resume ready in which she wrote of her peace and happiness. Then she vanished from her Fairfield condo, leaving everything, including her dreams, behind.
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