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Police believe the 35-year-old mother of two was murdered last week. Investigators spent all day Sunday looking for her body in a heavily wooded area behind a graveyard on Cemetery Road in Waterbury. They had not located her body as of early today.
Police early Sunday found Cynthia Cannon's Jeep Liberty on Cemetery Road, just a few miles from the family's 207 Spindle Hill Road.
Investigators also found a bloody sleeping bag on Woodtick Road next to the Scoville Reservoir. Acting Police Chief Neil O'Leary said friends identified the sleeping bag as the one Cynthia Cannon used during a recent Girl Scout camping trip. Police also found nylon rope and other evidence in the Cannon home, and in Cynthia Cannon's SUV.
"There is no doubt Cynthia Cannon has been the victim of a homicide. This is a very tragic incident. We all feel very badly," O'Leary said.
Cynthia Cannon, who originally is from the Danbury area, was reported missing by her husband Friday night. She had not been heard of or seen since Thursday evening, and there was no evidence that she used her cell phone.
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Four state police dogs and dozens of officers searched an area dense with brush on Cemetery Road in Waterbury on Sunday, Mother's Day. O'Leary said the search, interrupted only by night fall, would resume this morning.