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1,800 Search for Missing Ohio Woman
One volunteer showed up in high heels but gave up 20 minutes later after walking through a wooded area. Another maneuvered on crutches. "I'm here for the whole thing," said Tammy Robinson, 47.
Some volunteers brought their dogs or children. People signing up to help at a fire station formed a line about two football fields long.
  Whitney Davis speaks at a news conference at the Stark County Sheriff's Department in Canton, Ohio, as Tim Miller of EquuSearch looks on, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Davis is the sister of 26-year-old Jessie Marie Davis, the pregnant mother of a two-year -old missing from her home since last week. EquuSearch is a private missing persons search company joining the hunt for the missing woman. (AP Photo/Phil Long) (Phil Long - AP) 
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Police officer Jamie Mizer led one of 14 groups during the search. She is three months pregnant.
"That's kind of what's motivating me to be out here," she said.
Team leaders were told to look for tire tracks and any debris or other things that appeared out of the ordinary. Miller also instructed that if a body was found, the leaders should stay with it and move other searchers away.
"I'm hopeful we can find her alive," he said. "If not, the second best thing we can do is be back here next week for a funeral."
Cadaver dogs were sent to areas where they picked up on some odors, but nothing had been found by midafternoon, Miller said. "A lot of times they'll pick up on something that's not there," he said.
Rewards totaling $15,000 are being offered for information leading to Davis' whereabouts.
In a search of her boyfriend's home Wednesday, sheriff's investigators and FBI agents carried out more than a dozen white cardboard boxes, a few brown bags and three large black plastic bags.
Cutts' mother, Renee Horne, told The (Canton) Repository that agents were looking for Davis' cell phone and a quilt missing from her home.
Horne said FBI agents questioned her son twice Wednesday, and read him his Miranda rights during the second interview. Investigators also took Cutts' two cell phones, she said.
Meanwhile, the DNA of a newborn baby found about 45 miles from Davis' home was being tested to see if the infant is related to the missing woman, a possibility authorities have described as unlikely. The testing was not expected to be finished until next week.
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