FBI joins search for missing woman
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The FBI is now joining the search for a missing Ohio woman.
According to a report by WHIO, the FBI announced at a Wednesday morning news conference that they would assist Xenia police in the search for Tehan.
A "person of interest" in Tehan's disappearance has been identified as 42-year-old Tre B. Hutcherson of Dayton.
On Tuesday afternoon, WDTN News in Dayton reported a photo was taken inside an East Dayton convenient store several weeks ago in which Tehan appears with Hutcherson. The TV station said the two have been seen in the store on multiple occasions.
According to WHIO, Hutcherson has not been seen since Tehan's disappearance, and Xenia police think the two may be together. Hutcherson drives a red 1999 Volkswagen Beetle with the license plate EVQ 9018.
A website has been set up to help find the missing former Hillsboro resident, who hasn't been seen since Saturday, and National Cooperative Bank (NCB) in Hillsboro has offered a $5,000 reward for Tehan's safe return.
The site, www.tiffanytehan.org, features a map of the area where Tiffany Tehan was last seen, a photo of her vehicle, and a timeline of the events surrounding her disappearance.
According to www.tiffanytehan.org, "Tiffany (Tabor) Tehan of Xenia, Ohio went shopping on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at a popular outdoor shopping mall, The Greene, in Beavercreek, Ohio. She called her husband between 10:30 and 11 a.m. That was the last contact with her. She was believed to have been going to a 'mommy sale' at a Kettering Recreation Center in Kettering, Ohio in very close proximity to the shopping mall. Her Green/Blue Ford Explorer was found on Sunday, April 18, 2010 in a park parking lot in close proximity to the recreation center and the shopping mall. If you have any information related to the disappearance of Tiffany please contact the Xenia Police Department at 937-376-7220."
Tehan is the daughter of Charles "Chuck" and Susie Tabor of Hillsboro.
"Police are just following up on every lead they get," Tabor told The Highland County Press. "As a family, and with our church friends, we are just canvassing the area, talking to as many people as we can to encourage and ask them questions, passing out flyers with Tiffany's picture on them, anything we can do. If nothing else, we want to jog peoples' memories and things like that to just help things along."
According to a report from WHIO-TV, Kettering police confirmed they found Tehan’s vehicle parked in Indian Riffle Park off of East Stroop Road in Kettering on Sunday. Police said the vehicle had a flat tire and the keys were locked inside.
Highland County Sheriff Ron Ward said he contacted the Xenia Police Department Monday to offer any assistance in the investigation.
"We offered them any resources, if they need any leads run down this way, we put the offer to assist out there," Ward said.
Tabor said 40 to 50 volunteers are out "doing whatever they can."
For Tiffany to go missing without contacting anyone is very out of character, according to her family.
"It is out of character," Tabor said. "One of the things about her, she lived a very disciplined life. She had a very scheduled lifestyle. She did a lot of planning and organizing. Because of that, she wouldn't just take off for a couple of days. The bottom line is, she just wouldn't be gone. She was very committed to her husband, to her family and to her church and her church friends. She wasn't a loner or an outsider. She was very much involved. That is why this is so out of character."
Tabor said police are treating the matter as "simply a missing persons case. There is no reason to treat it otherwise. We're trying to find her and get her home. I don't know what happened. It's hard to understand. We're working to figure out what's happened."
For area residents who want to help, Tabor said the most important thing to do is pray.
"First of all, if they can pray, pray big time," Tabor said. "I think everybody (in the Highland County area) knows us, and they know what's going on. If they can just pray. Other than that, at this point, we haven't been planning for tomorrow."
For people who want to volunteer in canvassing, Tabor encourages them to contact Patterson Park Church (937) 427-0130 where church members are organizing canvases.
"We have been amazed at the number of people who have called who have offered to help volunteer, and even the number of news media who are taking an interest in this to get the word out," Tabor said.
In additional to local and regional media coverage, Tehan's disappearance was reported on CNN's website.
Tehan's family told WHIO's NewsCenter 7 on Sunday that Tiffany called her husband, David, just before 10:30 a.m. to tell him she was headed to a rummage sale at the Kettering Rec Center. Since then, no one has had contact with Tehan, the mother of a 1-year-old girl, Lexi.
Police said Tiffany's husband, David, expected her home by 2 p.m. Saturday. When she hadn't returned home by 9 p.m., he called the police.
Tabor said, "It's really hard. She's daddy's little girl, and that's tough."
Police called the circumstances of Tehan's disappearance unusual.
“We’re just looking into all of our evidence and where that might lead us,” Xenia police Capt. Scott Anger said, according to The Dayton Daily News. “We don’t have, at this particular time, anything that points us in any direction.”
“It’s a complete mystery to me,” said David Tehan, Tiffany's husband, according to The Dayton Daily News. “Never in a million years would I expect anything to happen like that. She’s out shopping and now she’s gone. And we don’t know where.”
Tehan is 5'5" and 150 pounds, with shoulder-length brown hair. Anyone with information regarding Tehan or her whereabouts is encouraged to call the Xenia Police Division at 937-372-9901.
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