FBI Joins Search for Missing Arkansas Teen
Friday, September 01, 2006
DUMAS, Ark. — The FBI on Thursday joined perplexed investigators from Arkansas in the search for a Pine Bluff teenager who disappeared along a busy federal highway after running out of gasoline last weekend.
Agents put out a notice nationally seeking information about Casey Crowder, a senior at Watson Chapel High School. Crowder, traveling back from a friend's house in Pickens on Sunday morning, telephoned her mother to say she had run out of gas and would walk to a gas station.
She was never heard from again.
Searchers have failed to turn up any sign of the girl. Her car was found along U.S. 65 south of Dumas, with her purse and cell phone gone but a softball bat and glove left behind. The car was out of gas, and its emergency flashers apparently had run the battery down.
"I don't know if it's foul play," Desha County Sheriff Don Smith said. "We have found no evidence to suggest foul play or lead us from it, either one."
Dozens of law officers and volunteers have conducted a ground and air search between Pickens and Dumas. Prosecutor Thomas Deen says it was unlikely that Crowder would have voluntarily climbed into a vehicle with a stranger.
U.S. 65 is a major route — mostly two-lane — between Little Rock and Natchez, Miss.
Crowder has blonde hair, green eyes, is 5-1 and weighs about 105 pounds. She also has a pierced navel.
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