13 WTHR - Indianapolis News |Investigators search for Karen Jo Smith's remains
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Indianapolis - A possible break in the case of an Indianapolis woman missing for seven years yielded nothing, police said Thursday.
Investigators acting on a tip from the missing persons unit searched a wooded area near the White River near Mozel Sanders Park, west of downtown across the river from old Bush Stadium.
They were looking for the remains of Karen Jo Smith, who disappeared December 27, 2000. A jury convicted her husband for murder in 2004 and he was sentenced to 95 years in prison.
A family member says a search dog spotted something in a wooded area - a pair of jeans the same size that Karen Jo Smith would have worn. Investigators searched a 200-square-foot area with cadaver dogs but in the end did not find anything.
Patti Bishop, Smith's mother, said her daughter "never met a stranger" and would go out of her way to help people.
Investigators searched the area for several hours but did not find any remains.
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