CANTON — It wasn’t the first time friends and family had scoured the land, looking for a clue to Kim Moreau’s 29-year-old disappearance.
And it wasn’t the last time, according to Scott Sencabaugh of Jay, one of the Facebook posters that helped bring a group together Saturday.
“We’ll go out again,” Sencabaugh said. “I know I’ll go out again. I’m going to continue searching in that spot or wherever. And I think in general most people will, too. Most people want to help and that part helps restore some of your faith in humanity.”
A group of about 20 people met Saturday morning at the Canton Post Office and then moved to a section of woods off of Route 108. They marked the area off into a grid and searched it with metal detectors.
Kimberly Moreau disappeared on May 10, 1986, the night of Jay High School’s junior prom. Instead of attending the dance, she stayed home with friends. Around 11 p.m., a car pulled up in front of Kim’s house. She ran inside, told her sister she would be back in an hour and left without taking anything with her, including her purse. She never returned home.
Despite a delayed search, police and friends have hunted for her or for a clue to her fate since then.
Police restarted the search in August, using ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to search property belonging to one of the last people to see the girl alive. That hunt lasted four days.
Sencabaugh said he personally did not find anything interesting by the time he left, at about 5 p.m. Other volunteers were still looking, he said.
Jared Pinkham, of Jay, said volunteers would turn over everything they found to police.
“I am limited to what I can say,” he said. “We found some things, but I don’t know if any of it is particular to the case. We collected things the way we’ve been instructed, so we will go from there.”
Pinkham said it shows the community just wants to bring her home.
“We have community members going out there giving blood, sweat and tears to support her family,” Pinkham said. “It’s sore in this community, so many rumors about where she is. That’s why we are all here, to help solve this. We are going to be there as a community.”
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