By David Lohr
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The search for Jamie began at Dogtown on March 18. The Paxton Police Department, Ford County Sheriff's Department, Gibson City Fire Department, Gibson City Police Department, Paxton Fire Department, Douglas County Search & Rescue, and officers from the Department of Conservation & Law Enforcement and the Division of Fisheries all participated in the three-day search.
"Dogtown contains three gravel pits," Paxton Police Chief Robert G. Bane said in a telephone interview with Crime Library yesterday. "One is active and two are old and unused. There are waterways out there and a lot of wooded area. On the first day, we conducted a massive ground search by foot and with the use of all-terrain vehicles. There were 42 officers and volunteers on the scene."
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Over the course of the next two days, cadaver-sniffing dogs were brought in to assist in the search, and officers from the Department of Conservation & Law Enforcement and the Division of Fisheries deployed sonar-equipped boats to examine the bottom of the ponds.
"We ran the bottom of the pits with sonar and the dogs on top of the water. Then Hummingbird [a manufacturer of sport fishing depth finders] had a professional fisherman come up to assist us, who is an expert on the sonar. They searched the water with assistance from Vermillion County Search and Rescue. They also ran cameras into the pits, searching areas of interest. They found a couple of old boats, but nothing of interest to the case," Chief Bane explained.
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