Missing Air Force nurse probe reaches Texas

Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News

Published November 27, 2006 at midnight

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The search for clues to the disappearance of Nonnie Ann Dotson has expanded to Texas, where authorities are examining her computer and speaking to the father of her toddler daughter.

Dotson, 33, has not been seen since Nov. 19, when she left her brother’s home in Littleton, where she and her daughter 16-month-old daughter Savannah Marie had been visiting, with plans to return Nov. 21 to their home in San Antonio, where Dotson is an intensive care nurse at Lackland Air Force Base.

Dotson left the Littleton home of her brother, Tony Dotson, the afternoon of Nov. 19 for what was to be a brief series of errands, leaving her daughter in his care.

It’s not known whether Dotson left his residence on foot or had called a friend to pick her up. The juice shop she’d expressed interest in, located at Jefferson Village, is a 10-minute walk from her brother’s home, across C-470. Her purse and cell phone are missing.

Bexar County (Texas) Sheriff’s Capt. Jim Rickhoff said today, "We’ve received a formal request from the Jefferson County Sheriff Department to assist them in their investigation of that missing person.

"At present, we are conducting forensic analysis on the woman’s computer," said Rickhoff, adding that family members had given their consent, negating the need for a search warrant. "We will perform other services as they’re requested."

Jefferson County Sheriff’s spokesman Jacki Kelley said today investigators still have not reached a conclusion about even the most basic questions concerning Dotson’s disappearance.

"We have no new tips or leads or information to support the theory of foul play, nothing new that would lead us in that direction," she said.

"There seems to be two camps, that either she has some involvement in her own disappearance, or that potentially something tragic has happened to her. We have no information to support that one theory is more credible, or more likely, than the other. We simply have nothing new. Zero."

Dotson, an avid line dancer, enjoyed a night of dancing the night before she vanished, at Grizzly Rose. Investigators have now interviewed several men she met there.

"We have spoken with a couple of people, a handful of people from the Grizzly Rose," said Kelley. "Absolutely none of those interviews proved to be fruitful. All of them have led basically to a dead end."

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