State and local officials ended their search Wednesday in Morrow without finding a Buckhead woman who has been missing for 22 years.
Authorities spent much of the day searching a wooded area near Duffy Drive for any hint of Sherri Holland after Morrow police received a tip connected to her disappearance in 1996.
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And while three cadaver dogs homed in on a patch of the wooded area — not far from where Holland’s car was found a week after her disappearance — the search failed to yield any results.
“Twenty-two years later, we remain on the quest to provide closure for the family and to this case,” the GBI said in a statement on its Facebook page. Morrow police, Clayton County police, the Clayton County sheriff’s office and four cadaver dogs from South Carolina were also part of the search.
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Holland, 34, disappeared Aug. 16, 1996, hours after she left her Flagler Beach, Fla., vacation home to head to Atlanta. Her BMW, which had a flat tire, was found a week later on I-75 North just south of the Morrow exit. A week after that, her dogs were found at a Clayton County apartment complex.
Morrow police Chief James Callaway said the tip, which he personally vetted, indicated the woman’s personal items, including a wallet, were found.
The tipster, Adrian Uribe, told Channel 2 Action News he found the wallet submerged in the creek years ago and found a bag nearby. One of the items contained a Florida driver’s license. He kept the items, but said he didn’t know their significance. He did not say what made him come forward at this time.
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