Cayle Bywater

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The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has asked for the public's help in finding Cayle Bywater. Bywater, 29, is a white female who has been missing from Athens since December 29, 2007.

Bywater was last seen outside her home on South Milledge Avenue in Athens on Saturday, and spoke to a family member by phone about the same time. On Monday, neighbors noticed Bywater's dog running loose outside, and her back door was open. Inside the home were her keys, wallet, and cell phone, and her vehicle was parked at the residence as well.

Anyone with information should call:

* The Athens-Clarke County Police Department at 706-613-3330,
* Central Communications at 706-613-3345, or
* Detective Dustin Smith at 706-613-3888, extension 795.

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Police do have one new clue to Bywater's whereabouts: A photograph taken at Memorial Park about 4 p.m. Dec. 29 that shows Bywater in the background, wearing glasses, slip-on Vans sneakers, blue jeans and a bright blue zip-up jacket with red stripes along the sleeves and chest. She is with her dog, Ollie, a brown Vizsla, a breed of hunting dog.
"We know definitely she was (at the park), definitely what she was wearing, and her dog was on a leash," said Bywater's mother, Valery Bywater of Alpharetta. "When they found her dog, it was not on a leash."
Ollie was found running loose in Memorial Park the afternoon of Dec. 30. When searchers took her back to the neighborhood last week to help sniff out Bywater, she stopped at South Milledge Avenue near her house, so relatives think that's the spot where she disappeared.
"We feel like that's where the leash separated," Cohen said.
Ollie tended to stay near Bywater, so if she was hurt and couldn't move or call out, relatives said the dog probably would have stayed with her or gone for help.
An exhaustive search last week of 90-acre Memorial Park, the University of Georgia intramural fields and surrounding areas, including dredging a lake at the park, turned up no signs. The family now is focusing on handing out fliers and seeking information through the media, and plans to renew the search Wednesday.
Bywater could have gone missing from somewhere other than the park area, Smith said, but she last was seen there, and her car, purse, keys and cell phone were all at her house. Her back door was open, and she appeared to be in the middle of burning CDs on her computer when she left the house.
Bywater's disappearance has been somewhat overshadowed by a similar case involving University of Georgia graduate Meredith Emerson, whose body was found late Monday. Police say Gary Michael Hilton, 61, of DeKalb County, kidnapped Emerson while she was hiking Jan. 1 at Vogel State Park and may have killed her.
Athens-Clarke police had a routine talk with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and do not believe there's any link between the two disappearance cases, Smith said. "At this point, there's no indication the two cases are related," he said.
Smith urged anyone who saw Bywater on Dec. 29 or Dec. 30 to call police, and said that's the best chance of finding her.
"We really need people who might have interacted with her (that) Saturday or Sunday to call us," he said.
The Bywater family also has set up a Web site, www.findcayle.org.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 010808

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According to family members, someone has reported finding a pair of eyeglasses in Athens' Memorial Park that may belong to Cayle Bywater, the 29 year-old University of Georgia employee and grad student reported missing on New Year's Eve.
The eyeglasses were spotted under some brush by a garbage can near the pond that forms the centerpiece of Memorial Park, a park that is also home to a small zoo and a playground. Authorities continue to search for Cayle who worked at local wine bar Aromas as well as at UGA's College of Agriculture where she was a data management specialist. Cayle was last seen walking her dog in Memorial Park, which is near her home on South Milledge Ave., on Saturday, Dec. 29. The dog was later seen wandering the neighborhood.

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Eyeglasses found in Athens' Memorial Park belong to a local woman who disappeared nearly two weeks ago, Athens-Clarke police said Thursday.
The frames matched photos of Cayle Bywater wearing the eyeglasses, and police also checked the lens prescription against Bywater's prescription, said police department spokeswoman Hilda Sorrow.
A woman and her child were playing in the Five Points park when they found the glasses partially hidden by a bush near a hiking trail.
Police investigators can't say if Bywater met with foul play, but haven't ruled out the possibility. The found glasses don't change that assessment, since investigators don't know how they got there, Sorrow said.
Still, Athens-Clarke police now have enlisted the help of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which assigned investigators to the case beginning Thursday, Sorrow said.
Investigators also don't have any evidence that Bywater's disappearance is linked to that of Meredith Emerson, a University of Georgia graduate who was kidnapped while hiking in the North Georgia mountains New Year's Day and later murdered.
Police have charged Gary Michael Hilton, 61, with Emerson's murder. Investigators believe he may have killed others, including Cheryl Hodges Dunlap, 46, of Crawfordville, Fla., in Apalachicola National Forest, as well as John Bryant, 79, and Irene Bryant, 84, last seen alive Oct. 20 in the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.
Bywater, 29, was last seen Dec. 29 as she chased her dog near the park, which is off South Milledge Avenue not far from Bywater's home.
A photograph taken in the park about 4 p.m. Dec. 29 shows Bywater in the background, wearing glasses, Vans slip-on sneakers, jeans and a blue jacket with red stripes on its sleeves and chest. Her brown Vizsla hunting dog, Ollie, is with her in the photograph.
Bywater was a University of Georgia graduate student, enrolled in a master's of Internet technology program at UGA's Gwinnett College campus. She also had worked as a data management employee in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UGA spokesman Tom Jackson said.
Police found the back door open at her South Milledge Avenue house after she missed work at a Five Points wine bar Dec. 29 and 30. Her keys, wallet, cell phone and car were at the house.
Police, helped by dozens of volunteers, searched the park and dragged the park's small lake last week.
Ollie was found running unattended in the park the afternoon of Dec. 30. When searchers brought the dog back to help search, the dog led them to a place near Bywater's South Milledge Avenue home, which made relatives think Bywater disappeared from that spot.
While police haven't ruled out foul play, they also say Bywater might have gone off on her own. Bywater was bipolar, raising the possibility that she could have gone off her medication and gotten lost.
Relatives believe she may have been abducted, however.
Police said Thursday they plan to search the area again, but have not set a date.
Her family has set up a Web site with information on Bywater's disappearance, http://findcayle.blogspot.com, and plan to conduct their own search Saturday. Organizers haven't set a time, but will need volunteers, according to the site.
Police ask anyone with information that could help them find Bywater to call Detective Dustin Smith at (706) 613-3888, extension 795, or GBI special agent Rebecca Shaw at (800) 597-8477.

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You know, if this Gary Hilton guy did all of these crimes that they think he may have done, he didn't just start at his age. I wonder what else this man has done. Well, can't even call him a man I guess.

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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has joined the search for a University of Georgia graduate student missing for nearly two weeks.
Athens-Clarke County Police spokeswoman Hilda Sorrow says glasses found in Athens' Memorial Park belong to Cayle Bywater. A woman and her child were playing in the park when they found the glasses partially hidden by a bush near a hiking trail.
Sorrow says the GBI assigned investigators to the case Thursday.
Police investigators don't know if Bywater met with foul play.
Investigators also say they have no evidence that Bywater's disappearance is linked to that of Meredith Emerson, a University of Georgia graduate who was kidnapped while hiking in the north Georgia mountains on New Year's Day and found dead Monday. They have charged 61-year-old Gary Michael Hilton with murder in her death.
The 29-year-old Bywater was last seen December 29th as she chased her dog, Ollie, near the park, which is not far from her home.

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Divers with the Hall County Dive team found a
female body in a lake at Memorial Park in Athens Friday, and authorities said the description matched that of missing University
of Georgia student Cayle Bywater.

Athens-Clarke County Police Major Mark Sizemore said the body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in Decatur for an autopsy and positive identification.

Sizemore said he was not ready to speculate on foul play being involved in the death. Bywater's family said she was bipolar, and may have been off her medication.

Athens-Clarke County Police spokeswoman Hilda Sorrow says glasses found in Athens' Memorial Park belong to Bywater. A woman and her child were playing in the park when they found the glasses partially hidden by a bush near a hiking trail.

Investigators also say they have no evidence that Bywater's disappearance is linked to that of Meredith Emerson, a University of Georgia graduate who was kidnapped while hiking in the north Georgia mountains on New Year's Day and was found dead Monday.

Authorities have charged 61-year-old Gary Michael Hilton with murder in her death.

The 29-year-old Bywater was last seen December 29th as she chased her dog, Ollie, near the park, which is not far from her home.

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