By Mike Morris and Megan Matteucci

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Investigators searched the woods in North Carolina for a missing Blairsville mother, but found no signs of the woman.

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Courtesy of the Cornwell family Kristi Cornwell

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Police and cadaver-sniffing dogs spent Sunday and Monday morning searching Cleveland County, N.C. after a tip came into Fox’s “America’s Most Wanted.” The show passed the tip on to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Marshals, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.

“The call said to check a specific road for Kristi Cornwell,” Bankhead said Monday. “It's just one of many tips.”

The GBI has looked into hundreds of tips since Aug. 11 when Cornwell, 38, was reportedly abducted while walking near her parents’ Blairsville home. The tips have provided no “significant” leads to find Cornwell or determine what happened to her, Bankhead said.

Cornwell’s cousin Keith Hogsed said the family was disappointed the North Carolina search didn’t yield any results, but was not that confident in the tip.

“That tip probably shouldn’t have gotten any more attention or press than any of the other leads,” Hogsed said Monday afternoon. “Unfortunately, we weren’t too confident about it to begin with.”

Cornwell’s family is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to her safe return or the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for her disappearance. Hogsed said the family hopes the reward will bring in more tips.

“We’re trying to be hopeful about every lead,” he added.

Cornwell was talking to her boyfriend Douglas Davis on the cellphone when she was abducted, the GBI said. Davis told agents Cornwell said a car was following her. Davis said he then heard a struggle and Cornwell say “don’t take me.”