JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) _ A search of three ponds in Joplin yielded no new evidence in
the case of a 14-year-old Joplin girl who disappeared 26 years ago.
Joplin police and Missouri Department of Natural Resources employees spent
about 3.5 hours Wednesday searching the ponds with sonar equipment and
ground-penetrating radar.
Police Capt. Larry Swinehart said searchers found no clues to help solve the
disappearance of Tracy Pickett, who has been missing since August 1992.
The Joplin Globe reports searchers were acting on new information recently
received from a relative of a suspect, who has since died.
Swinehart said the next step will be draining two of the ponds when it gets
cooler and searching them by hand.
Pickett disappeared after accepting a ride home from an ex-convict, Lowell
Billy.
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