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Search teams deployed on foot, on horseback and on ATVs, Pyles said. A DPS helicopter scoured the area by air, zooming over the command center and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Twelve K-9 teams also joined the search, including human cadaver dogs and dogs that can pick up live scents, Pyle said.
All this and they miss a body hanging in a tree a few blocks away.
All this and they miss a body hanging in a tree a few blocks away.
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One article I read and I can’t cite it specifically indicated they didn’t search
the area where she was found because that had been searched by the family. I don’t know
how accurate that was.
A week after her disappearance, more than 100 volunteers from Texas Search and Rescue
and the Texas State Guard Maritime Regiment joined a massive search that also
included about four dozen law enforcement officials from Comal County, the Department
of Public Safety, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and other agencies.
Greg Pyles, CEO of Texas Search and Rescue, said Thursday that the area where her body
was found was not included in the 23-square-mile multiagency search. Bearden’s
body was found in a neighborhood that searchers understood had already been covered
by the family, he said.