Group joins search for missing mom

A Texas company is joining in on the search for missing Chautauqua County mother Corrie Anderson.

Corrie's mother Vicki Acquisto said, "They're here to help us try to find Corrie."

It's been more than 40 days since Corrie Anderson disappeared near where she lives in Ashville.

Now, a group called Texas Equusearch is stepping in to help find the missing mother of three. They work with law enforcement to find missing people.

Acquisto said, "Right now, we're just very excited that they're here, hoping that things can pick up."

Michael Ray of Equusearch is going over what happened on the afternoon of October 28th, when she was last seen at Lake County Dodge in the Jamestown area. Her van was found in a field later that night, far off the road, where no one would see it.

Ray said, "I feel that the van was placed here deliberately."

Equusearch uses some high tech tools that aren't available to many police departments. They have ground penetrating radar, cadaver dogs, and satellite recognizance at their disposal.

With several feet of snow in the southern tier, that's what's hampering search efforts right now, but Equusearch is in town to do their preliminary investigating, so they'll be ready when the weather breaks.

Ray said, "What we're up here to do right now is preliminary investigation of the search sites, some satellite recognizance to get some coordinates into effect for a future search that'll be coming up."

Ray is hoping to do some investigating with dogs this week, even with the heavy snowfall. When the weather clears, the search will involve horses and all terrain vehicles. They'll be looking for help from the community.

Ray said, "Our focus is to come in here, look at the area, look at the possibilities, what could have happened."

Anderson's family is offering a 15,000 dollar reward for information leading them to her.

Acquisto said, "We're taking it one day at a time. That's all we can do right now."