Brett Buffington

The twin span here is I-10.

I-10 west, I-10 east, coming this way to Baton Rouge.

it's actually beautiful back there pretty treacherous place we had received some information from a cell phone tower immediately we thought about potential places to dump the body right here so that's one of the first places we looked when we heard this is where they were searching nobody was surprised

You want to get rid of a body, this is a good place to go.

And look, all investigators, coroners, they, you know, look, we want to find the body fairly quickly, preserve evidence, things like that.

Sylvia, just within the last 10 minutes, confirming with the Iberville Parish Sheriff and the Baton Rouge Police Department spokesperson that this search is in the phases of wrapping up.

Sun starts going down, no luck.

an unsuccessful search here in Aberville Parish as they look for the body of Lintel Washington.

They did not locate her.

Now police are hopeful someone will come forward with information as they work leads an attempt to figure out exactly what happened to Lintel Washington.

This was the lead story in Baton Rouge.

Three reporters some days covering this from the morning through the day and into the evening.

Lintel Washington's face was on the news.

The police were asking for people to call in and give tips.

If anybody saw anything that seems to be out of place, please give us a call.

They had to be in the right area.

They had the cell phone data.

They searched, they searched, they searched.

And finally, on the fifth day, they got a break.

Washington's cell phone was traced in Rosedale, that's in Everville Parish.