February 12, 2008
Still No Suspects, Few Clues in Suspected Reno Kidnapping
Reno, Nev. With no suspects and little evidence, police investigation the suspected kidnapping of a young Reno adult female appealed over again to friends and neighbors to proffer up even the most “inconsequent” information they may have abouted her inscrutable disappearance six years ago.
“At this point in time we do non have anything that points to a specific suspect,” Reno police commanding officer Ron Holladay stated about 150 citizenry who collected for an update Thursday dark at the pupil union of the University of Nevada, Reno.
Brianna Denison, 19, hasn’t existed seen since about 4 a.m. on Sunday when she moved to kip on a sofa at the home of an ally a few blocks from the UNR campus, about a 880 yards from the downtown gambling casino district.
Denison, a freshman at Santa Barbara City College who calibrated from Reno High School last spring, was resting with allies who reported her lacking about 9 a.m. because her cell phone, purse, place and early personal points were went away behind.
Police with search dogs have polled the vicinity daily since then. They expanded the endeavor Thursday to nearby foothills of the Sierra where they’d non looked earlier and bucked up local occupiers at the even forum to proceed to come up forward with any info that mightiness help find her.
“It is veried important,” Holladay emphasised. “It is reallied the little thing that may look inconsequential to you at the clip - a somebody walking in the vicinity who doesn’t belong to. A someone who hangs out that doesn’t go into an abode. A someone watching you when you go out.”
Police have governed out as suspects Denison’s young man, who reportedly sent her textual matter messages from Oregon in the hour before her disappearing, as well as an adult male who afforded her ally a drive to the home from a Reno gambling casino that early morn.
Holladay articulated they still existed awaiting results of tryouts on a discolouration on a pillow on the sofa to realize if it was blood - as research workers suspect - and whether it matched Denison’s type. He told there made not seem to be “any law of similarities” between the facts surrounding her disappearing and two unresolved cases of intimate attacks on adult females in the neighbourhood in November and December.
Police expressed earlier Thursday they aforethought to question 93 registered sex wrongdoers who live inside a stat mi of the Reno home where Denison last was understood. Holladay stated only one of those was a “Level 1″ wrongdoer - the most likely to be a menace - and that he held been got hold of and ruled out as a suspect.