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Police say search found no evidence
Search team scoured Frog Hollow area seeking clues in case of missing woman
By MICHAEL ANICH, The Leader-Herald
POSTED: April 13, 2010
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JOHNSTOWN - A state-sanctioned search team recently combed the Frog Hollow area and the banks of the Cayadutta Creek, looking for clues in the case of a missing city woman, but police say nothing useful was found.
"There was some men's sneakers, an empty pill bottle from Rite Aid and a couple of bones that looked like animal bones," Johnstown Police Chief Greg Horning said Monday. "It's the same site that has been searched 30 times. That's a place where people put their trash."
Supporters of the family of Kellisue Ackernecht on Friday told The Leader-Herald that city police hadn't done anything with "evidence" found in the Frog Hollow area by Search Team 5-1. Supporters said the team spent all day March 27 searching Frog Hollow and down a hill off the Rail Trail, along the banks of the creek.
Ackernecht, of 330 W. Main St., was 36 years old when she was last seen leaving her job as a night-shift manager at the Rite Aid in Amsterdam on Sept. 30, 2008. The car she was supposed to drive home - a 1998 Saturn sedan - was found on fire early the next morning in Frog Hollow, a wooded neighborhood at the bottom of the Montgomery Street hill on the west side of the city. The area is off West Montgomery Street, where Chestnut Street begins - a few blocks from the Ackernecht home.
Based in Edinburg, Search Team 5-1 helps to find lost hikers in the Adirondacks and other areas. The team often starts its training in the spring. One of the organizers of the March 27 search was Stan Banovic, a member of the team who lives in Frog Hollow, near where Ackernecht's car burned up.
He said 37 people searched from West Main Street in Johnstown to the Gloversville-Johnstown Wastewater Treatment Facility.
"We had a training exercise," Banovic said of the Frog Hollow search. He said he doubted anything fruitful was found.
The team found what appeared to be a pocketbook, tennis shoes, several bones, fabric that might have resembled an apron Ackernecht might have worn at work at Rite Aid, a pill bottle and pieces of khaki fabric. The woman was last seen wearing khaki pants.
Banovic said his team found what appeared to be khaki pants in silt along the creek. He said the team flagged all the items and turned over photographs of them to city police Sgt. David Gilbo, who is leading the Ackernecht investigation.
Horning said Friday that Gilbo was due to collect the materials that day. By Monday, Horning said Gilbo did review what the team found, and there was no apron, no pants and only animal bones.
"I don't think there's anything there," Horning said.
Michael Anich can be reached at johnstown@leaderherald.com.
THE AREA WAS NOT SEARCHED 30 TIMES, ONLY 6 TIMES
THERE WAS A PAIR OF PANTS FOUND I HAVE THE PICTURE
JAYSON DID NOT SUPPORT HIS WIFE AT NY STATE MISSING PERSONS DAY.
Police say search found no evidence
Search team scoured Frog Hollow area seeking clues in case of missing woman
By MICHAEL ANICH, The Leader-Herald
POSTED: April 13, 2010
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JOHNSTOWN - A state-sanctioned search team recently combed the Frog Hollow area and the banks of the Cayadutta Creek, looking for clues in the case of a missing city woman, but police say nothing useful was found.
"There was some men's sneakers, an empty pill bottle from Rite Aid and a couple of bones that looked like animal bones," Johnstown Police Chief Greg Horning said Monday. "It's the same site that has been searched 30 times. That's a place where people put their trash."
Supporters of the family of Kellisue Ackernecht on Friday told The Leader-Herald that city police hadn't done anything with "evidence" found in the Frog Hollow area by Search Team 5-1. Supporters said the team spent all day March 27 searching Frog Hollow and down a hill off the Rail Trail, along the banks of the creek.
Ackernecht, of 330 W. Main St., was 36 years old when she was last seen leaving her job as a night-shift manager at the Rite Aid in Amsterdam on Sept. 30, 2008. The car she was supposed to drive home - a 1998 Saturn sedan - was found on fire early the next morning in Frog Hollow, a wooded neighborhood at the bottom of the Montgomery Street hill on the west side of the city. The area is off West Montgomery Street, where Chestnut Street begins - a few blocks from the Ackernecht home.
Based in Edinburg, Search Team 5-1 helps to find lost hikers in the Adirondacks and other areas. The team often starts its training in the spring. One of the organizers of the March 27 search was Stan Banovic, a member of the team who lives in Frog Hollow, near where Ackernecht's car burned up.
He said 37 people searched from West Main Street in Johnstown to the Gloversville-Johnstown Wastewater Treatment Facility.
"We had a training exercise," Banovic said of the Frog Hollow search. He said he doubted anything fruitful was found.
The team found what appeared to be a pocketbook, tennis shoes, several bones, fabric that might have resembled an apron Ackernecht might have worn at work at Rite Aid, a pill bottle and pieces of khaki fabric. The woman was last seen wearing khaki pants.
Banovic said his team found what appeared to be khaki pants in silt along the creek. He said the team flagged all the items and turned over photographs of them to city police Sgt. David Gilbo, who is leading the Ackernecht investigation.
Horning said Friday that Gilbo was due to collect the materials that day. By Monday, Horning said Gilbo did review what the team found, and there was no apron, no pants and only animal bones.
"I don't think there's anything there," Horning said.
Michael Anich can be reached at johnstown@leaderherald.com.
THE AREA WAS NOT SEARCHED 30 TIMES, ONLY 6 TIMES
THERE WAS A PAIR OF PANTS FOUND I HAVE THE PICTURE
JAYSON DID NOT SUPPORT HIS WIFE AT NY STATE MISSING PERSONS DAY.
