Searching for Kristi Cornwell, missing Blairsville woman

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Searching for Kristi Cornwell, missing Blairsville woman

Photos: Kristi Cornwell went missing from Jones Creek Road in Blairsville on Tuesday. Authorities mounted a large search.

Kristi Cornwell is believed to have been abducted while walking down Jones Creek Road in Blairsville on Tuesday night. Her boyfriend, who was in Atlanta, heard an altercation as he talked with her on a cell phone.

Divers from the Hall County Sheriff's Office rotated shifts Monday searching Lake Nottley in Union County.

Cornwell's family continues to post signs around Blairsville, including this one at Kate's Western Store - about a mile from where she went missing.

More than 100 searchers from 17 agencies looked for Kristi Cornwell on Sunday, 5 days after she was abducted

Lake Nottely is about 27 feet deep.

More than 100 officials from 17 different agencies joined the search Sunday for Kristi Cornwell.

Union County police, the Georgia State Patrol, and the Department of Natural Resources are among the agencies involved in the search last week. DNR Ranger 1st class Shane Sartor takes part in the search.

Ryan Patterson delivers water bottles with missing person Kristi Cornwell's photo on it to the Marathon Station off Hwy 515 in Blairsville.

Charles Brackett puts up yellow ribbons at his Blairsville Marathon station in support of the search

Kristi Cornwell is a former probation officer.

Gilmer County Lt. Frank Copeland (foreground) amd Union County Sgt Chad Deyton look over a map.

In 2007, Kristi Cornwell took a mission trip to Jamaica with her church to help orphans.

Cornwell on her mission trip to Jamaica.

Law enforcement agencies set up a command center at Union Baptist Church in Blairsville.

Investigators operating from the church (shown above) found personal belongings of Cornwell's along Jones Creek Road but declined to say what those items were.

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Kristi Cornwell is believed to have been abducted while walking down Jones Creek Road in Blairsville on Tuesday night. Her boyfriend, who was in Atlanta, heard an altercation as he talked with her on a cell phone.

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