WACO, TEXAS Thermal imaging used in search
Authorities have received hundreds of leads in Patrick Dennehy's disappearance.
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Authorities searching for a missing Baylor basketball player returned to a 50-acre property northeast of campus Thursday with thermal imaging equipment.
"We just want to make sure we haven't missed anything," Waco police spokesman Steve Anderson said. He later said the aerial search turned up nothing.
Landowner's link
The owner of the property has said the missing basketball player, Patrick Dennehy, and his roommate and former teammate Carlton Dotson had fired guns on the land in recent months.
No charges have been filed in Dennehy's disappearance; however authorities have described Dotson as a "person of interest." A search warrant affidavit made public Monday said an unnamed informant told investigators that Dotson told a cousin he shot Dennehy with a handgun while the two played with firearms near Waco.
Dennehy, 21, was last heard from almost three weeks ago. His sport utility vehicle was later found abandoned without its license plates in a Virginia Beach, Va., parking lot.
The landowner, who spoke to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on condition of anonymity, said Dotson visited the property more than 30 times between March 1 and June 1. Dotson and Dennehy got to know his family after answering an ad to buy a pit bull, and they returned to the property to fish, fire weapons and play with the family's sons.
"They were like family," the man said. "I wouldn't have let them be around my boys if I didn't feel that way."
The man said that he taught the two basketball players how to fish, and his wife described them as "well-behaved and well-mannered."
Seen in Waco
The last time the man said he saw Dotson and Dennehy at his property was in early June. His wife and children said they saw them in Waco on June 12.
Dotson's attorney, Grady Irvin Jr., said the suspicion swirling about his client and even the idea that Dennehy was shot are based "on an unnamed person who claims to be a confidential informant who is stating that someone told them something."
"I know of no shooting that took place at all," Irvin told ABC's "Good Morning America. "I think there's only a rumor that perhaps Mr. Dennehy has been shot. They don't even know if that's accurate."
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