West Virginia State Police Sgt. Brian Brown said this morning that crews have not given up hope in finding 45-year-old Timothy Downard.
“For now, we’re looking for any new information,” Brown said this morning, adding that any leads can be reported to the WVSP office by calling 792-7200.
Dave Maynard, a supervisor with the Logan Emergency Ambulance Service Authority, said this morning that crews have completed searches of both riverbanks on the Guyandotte River and have finished dragging the river with no luck in finding a body, but dive teams will still do searches of several spots on the river. He said those searches will be contingent upon the weather and water conditions.
“We’ve had someone in the water all weekend and we’ve searched all the way down to Big Creek,” Maynard said. “We may wait a day or so before we go back in the water. But, we haven’t given up. Until we hear something different, there’s always hope.
“Right now, we’re checking brush piles and different hang-up points for a body. We can do that indefinitely. It probably won’t be done everyday and it depends on the water and weather conditions. When the water is 30 degrees, I can’t send a diver in there.”
Downard has been missing since New Year’s Eve, after he placed a call to his wife’s cell phone, saying he was despondent and had suffered severe injuries while trying to break the window out of a company truck, owned by Aracoma Coal.
His wife, Beverly, said he indicated that he had severely lacerated his hand while trying to break the window out of the truck, but that when the truck was located, there was no blood and a tool wrapped in cloth was found that had been used to break the window.
Beverly Downard said in an interview with The Logan Banner last week that she believed her husband’s disappearance was a hoax.
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