Authorities continue to search for a missing Air Force nurse who vanished more than a week ago without a trace, leaving her 16-month-old daughter in her brother’s care.
Nonnie Dotson, 33, left her brother’s home Nov. 19 to run errands and never returned.
Her brother, Tony Dotson, told authorities Friday he had received a tip from an unidentified man that she had been dancing at the Grizzly Rose the night before she went missing when two men began hassling her about having breakfast with her.
The man said he had danced with her, and later called the brother when he heard she had gone missing. He got the brother’s phone number off a flier that had been posted at the saloon.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Shires said he wasn’t aware if the man had called authorities as well.
Dotson was on a short leave from Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and due back on active duty last Tuesday. She is scheduled to be released from the military in March.
After dancing, she returned to her brother’s home in the early hours Nov. 19 in her brother’s car.
“You always wonder, did someone follow her home?” Tony Dotson said.
Dotson said his sister had some bad experiences with online dating services targeting single parents.
“There were some incidents in Texas where she thought she was being followed,” he said.
Dotson has a personal ad posted on myspace.com, a popular Internet site for meeting people. The site stated she had logged on two days after she went missing, but Shires said her parents had her password and may have logged on themselves.
Shires said deputies obtained search warrants for Nonnie Dotson’s financial records and for Web sites she frequented. He said her cell phone had been traced to southwest Littleton but had not been found.
Search dogs also picked up her scent in the same area, but it is unclear when that scent was left. They lost the scent at the on-ramp to C-470 at Wadsworth.
