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Search is over for Amanda Berry; police say nothing found
Cleveland police and the FBI searched a lot on West 30th Street for the remains of missing teenager Amanda Berry on July 20, 2012, after a tip from a current inmate.
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Posted: 07/20/2012
CLEVELAND - Cleveland Police First District Commander Thomas McCartney said the search is over. McCartney said police and the FBI were completely thorough in their search but nothing was found.
Cleveland Police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said Robert Wolford was brought back to the dig site with FBI agents overnight and Wolford was "adamant" about where he claimed he buried Amanda Berry's body nine years ago.
After removing some trees, police used two back hoes digging six feet in tandem while investigators watch closely, but the searchers left after nothing was found early Friday afternoon..
Tomba confirmed that Wolford claims he killed Berry and buried her body in a vacant lot on the corner of West 30th Street and Wade Avenue.
By 2:30 Friday afternoon police cleared the scene after the lot was back filled with dirt.
Investigators searched this vacant lot because they received a tip from the prison inmate, 25-year-old Robert Wolford.
According to the FBI, there used to a home at the vacant lot being searched. That home was torn down in 2002, the year before Amanda Berry went missing.
Berry was walking home from her job at Burger King at West 110th and Lorain when she disappeared the night before you 17th birthday.
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