Man Questioned in Missing Woman Case
As FBI questions father of woman's son, officials schedule news conference.
June 23, 2007 — -- Even as more than 1,000 officials and volunteers search northeast Ohio for Jessie Davis, 26, who disappeared while nine months pregnant with a girl, the FBI is questioning the father of Davis' son.
Earlier in the week, authorities said the father -- Canton, Ohio, Police Officer Bobby Cutts Jr., 30 -- was cooperative as they searched his home.
"I can say we are in conversation with Bobby Cutts today. He isnot at home," FBI agent Scott Wilson told The Associated Press Saturday afternoon. "We will continue to talk with him."
In addition, officials working on the case have scheduled a 6 p.m. news conference at the Stark County Sheriff's Department.
Cutts has publicly maintained he had nothing to do with the disappearance.
As days turn into weeks, police and volunteers keep searching for Davis, who was two weeks away from delivering a baby girl when her mother discovered she was missing -- a disappearance reported to police June 15.
"I was so grateful and so overwhelmed and thinking what a wonderful person that must be for all those people to come and then you realize it's your daughter," said Davis' mother Patty Porter.
Finding Davis is a personal mission to volunteer Amanda Martin even though she never met Davis.
"If this was my sister, I would hope everybody would do the same thing," said Martin. "This was tragic and I would do anything I could to help them."
One new tool making the search more efficient is a surveillance drone that can take hundreds of aerial photos.
"One picture can cover 30 acres," said Gene Robinson, of RP Search Services. "And since it's a digital image, we can zoom down into it and we can see something as small a as a tennis shoe."
While Davis' family has said it is grateful for all the search efforts and supporters, its frustration is beginning to grow.
"Whoever did this knows what's going on," said Davis' sister Whitney Davis. "They can obviously see the pain it's causing my family."
The family did receive some news on Friday. Tests showed an abandoned infant found 40 miles away from Davis' home on Tuesday was not her child.
