Search suspended for missing Ohio woman

The Dare County Sheriff’s Office suspended their search Friday on Hatteras Island for a missing Ashland, Ohio woman, due to weather conditions.

But nine of Lynn Jackenheimer’s acquaintances, including her step-father, sister, and brother, said they are not giving up and will continue their own search.

After members of several law enforcement agencies spent much of Thursday morning looking around the Hatteras Colony neighborhood of Salvo, Jackenheimer’s family and friends joined officers to scour the Salvo Day Use Area.

No new clues were discovered in Thursday’s search.

Plans were made to investigate more areas Friday, including the use boats of to look at soundside shoreline areas of northern Hatteras Island.

However, the threat of thunderstorms scrapped all plans for searching by law enforcement.

A vacation rental company is providing Jackenheimer’s family and friends with free housing on Hatteras Island for as long as they wish to stay.

No other new details have emerged in the case of the 33-year-old Jackenheimer, who was last heard from by telephone in the early morning hours July 4.

Nate Summerfield, 27, who was staying during the week of Independence Day at a rental on Cutlass Lane with Jackenheimer, their 3-year-old son, and her 13-year-old daughter, has not been seen since July 8 in Ohio when he dropped off the children with their grandparents.

Summerfield allegedly told a family member he had strangled Jackenheimer and buried her in North Carolina, which lead Summerfield’s brother to call police.

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