(April 19, 2007) DRYNOB, Mo. -- Law enforcement officers are searching for a 43-year-old woman who has been missing since last weekend in an area east of Lebanon, near Missouri 32. No one has reported seeing Tracie Wahwassuck since her boyfriend says she and he went hunting for arrowheads last Friday afternoon near the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River.

Teams searched on Wednesday and Thursday with tracking dogs, a dive team and a Missouri State Highway Patrol helicopter. Sheriff Richard Wrinkle says Wahwassuck's mother reported her missing.

This isn't an ordinary missing persons case. There isn't a family keeping vigil. No friends are passing out flyers with her picture. Instead, investigators say they are getting little help.

"The family have had some connection with law enforcement in the past. They are just reluctant to be totally cooperative," said Sheriff Richard Wrinkle.

The sheriff says Wahwassuck's boyfriend says they were searching for arrowheads on their property near the river. The sheriff hasn't been able to search her home.

"They don't want to give us total access to the residences, for whatever reason," he said.

Wrinkle says Wahwassuck left behind her purse, cellular telephone and medication. So, for the last two days, teams including cadaver dogs, have a have been searching along the river and the ground.

"The ground dogs have not hit anything. The water dogs' handlers said they found a place of interest," he said.

The search would be scaled back if the woman wasn't found by Thursday night but the sheriff says they will keep looking.

"If we're fortunate and she did go somewhere, we just need to know. We have a lot of people doing a lot of work looking for her," said Wrinkle.

Of course, the search has centered on one portion of the river in Laclede County where they think it's closest to where the property is that Wahwassuck's boyfriend said they were searching on Friday. That was a very cold and rainy day, so the sheriff says he wonders why someone would pick that day to go searching for arrowheads.

Wrinkle says there are a lot of questions involving this case but they don't have any suspects and they have no reason to suspect foul play. But they say they certainly don't think this is going to be a good outcome at this point because they have no sign of Wahwassuck and the weather was so bad over the weekend that they think there is no chance someone could have survived this long without shelter or food.

Cassidy Rainwater, the oldest daughter of Wahwassuck, disputes the sheriff's statements that the family is not cooperating. She said in a telephone interview that the family has done all it can to look for her, and says law enforcement officers told them to stay away from the search site.