Police Search For Missing Kansas Teen In Oklahoma

Authorities in North-Central Oklahoma and Southern Kansas continue to search for a missing college student. Nineteen-year-old Jodi Sanderholm was last seen Friday in Arkansas City, Kansas. News on 6

Sunday, January 7th 2007, 10:21 pm

By: News On 6

Authorities in North-Central Oklahoma and Southern Kansas continue to search for a missing college student. Nineteen-year-old Jodi Sanderholm was last seen Friday in Arkansas City, Kansas. News on 6 reporter Jennifer Loren says police are now following some important leads.

Jodi Sanderholm has been described as a 4.0 student at Cowley College. She's a member of the school's dance line and has continued to live at home with her parents. Even the Arkansas Police Chief knows her personally.

"This is just not our job. It's personal," Police Chief Sean Wallace said.

Sanderholm was last seen on Friday at a Subway restaurant in Arkansas City, since then hope that she's alive has already faded.

Officials have sent dive teams to search for her body in an area lake. They've spread search crews out on land in the surrounding areas. Now they say they have found some evidence, but they will not say what it was.

We do know they had questioned at least one person in connection with this case, a man they described as a â€œgroupieâ€ of Sanderholm's dance team.

"We've questioned him, some suspicions that the family had as well as friends of hers had and some other information that we acquired, but we have not taken that information and put it into any type of complaint against him regarding Jodi's disappearance," said Wallace.

Right now, he is in custody on unrelated charges.

Meanwhile police are asking residents in rural areas to check their sheds, garages and other structures for signs of the missing student. That's what Bob and Betty Uden did this morning.

"We came out this morning and drove all over it just looking, land that people can't get down in and see," said resident Bob Uden.

The Udenâ€™s say the town is hoping for the best, but they're in shock that something like this has happened in their community.

â€œIts scary, very scary,â€ said Betty Uden.

â€œYeah its something that doesn't happen around here often. So its bad news,â€ Bob Uden said.

Sanderholm is described as 5â€™3, 105 pounds. She has brown hair and has brown eyes and was last seen driving a 2003 black Dodge Stratus with Kansas plates WOT 921.

If you have any information about Sanderholm, please contact the Arkansas City Police at 620-441-4444.