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The Alton Police Department, with assistance from the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis, spent numerous hours investigating the disappearance of Woodward in June and the death of Wood in early December.
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Lt. Scott Golike, chief of detectives for the Alton Police Department, said Woodward's case has been a real mystery, and that police still are waiting on evidence to be analyzed.
"There really is nothing new in the case," Golike said. "We're waiting on reports from the lab."
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After months of tracking down leads in the case, police finally were led to a property in Jersey County they believed was connected to Woodward's disappearance. Although investigators did not find her body, the case shifted focus when an important piece of evidence was discovered - a boat, owned by the man police considered a central figure in the case.
Golike said the boat was a piece of evidence that was being analyzed. Part of what police hope to find out is whether Woodward ever was aboard the boat owned by Roger W. Carroll Jr.
Investigators connected Carroll to Woodward after finding his fingerprint on her red pickup truck that was left behind in the parking lot of her workplace at Eunice Smith Nursing Home.
Golike said one of the reasons it has taken so long for the evidence to be analyzed is the large quantity of material collected in the case, which is more than any other case he has worked on in his recent memory.
A search warrant was issued for Carroll's property in late September because of what police called his "deceitfulness" in denying any association with Woodward. More than 80 police officers raked the grounds where Carroll lives along Creek Road in Jersey County.
Afterward, investigators learned that Carroll reportedly sold a small boat days after Woodward went missing.
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