Crime Stoppers joins hunt
Matt Stiles | THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Issue date: 7/10/03 Section: Sports
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WACO, Texas (KRT) - The local Crime Stoppers is joining the hunt for missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy.
The CBS affiliate in Waco, KWTX-TV, began airing public service announcements Tuesday that offer up to $2,000 for information that helps police find Dennehy, who has been missing for more than three weeks.
"The carrot is the money," said Waco police Sgt. Steve Beatty, who helps administer the program. "That's what you dangle out there."
The 60-second announcements are the latest step by investigators.
The last reported sighting of the 6-foot-10, 230-pound player was in Waco on June 12. Police opened a missing persons investigation June 19, when Dennehy's stepfather filed a report.
Dennehy's sport utility vehicle was found abandoned, its license plate removed, in Virginia Beach, Va., on June 25. A day later, police announced that they had received information indicating that Dennehy might have been slain in the Waco area.
An affidavit filed June 23 by police for a search warrant quoted an unidentified informant in Delaware as saying that a friend and former teammate of Dennehy, Carlton Dotson, told a cousin that he shot and killed Dennehy after an argument while the two were practicing shooting in the McLennan County area. Dotson has not been charged in the case.
In recent days, friends and relatives have said Dennehy and Dotson, by all accounts close friends, were worried and got guns to protect themselves in the days before Dennehy disappeared and Dotson returned home to Hurlock, Md.
Lacking a body or crime scene evidence to direct their investigation, police began reviewing all the tips and details from the case this week.
Police said they hope the Crime Stoppers announcements might lead to a break in the case.
"In most cases, it's when the detectives have exhausted all their leads," Sgt. Beatty said, referring to the Crime Stoppers program.
He asked anyone with information in the case to call 254-750-HELP (4357).
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