NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - The violent, wet weather slamming Tennessee on Tuesday has postponed the search for Holly Bobo, a 20-year-old nursing student believed to have been abducted from outside her Decatur County home April 13.
Kevin Cagle, county Emergency Management Agency director, who has helped direct the search, said that personnel will not be out in the field Tuesday or Wednesday to search. What happens then depends on what damage or flooding remains after the storm moves out.
"We're going to see what this weather system does," Cagle said.
Hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement officials from throughout the state and the region have been participating in the search efforts for the young woman.
She last was seen being led into the woods by a man in full camouflage clothing at about the time she would have left the family home to go to nursing school. Her brother saw the pair, but said he thought it was her boyfriend, so he didn't worry about it until he saw blood outside.
Searchers had been frustrated by their lack of success in finding much evidence until Sunday when an item was found on a roadside in the northern part of the county that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said may be linked to the young woman. Officials declined to specify what was found.
(Reporting by Tim Ghianni; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Jerry Norton)
