Amanda Stofer, McHale's daughter, said news of the search initially gave her hope that investigators had found answers about her mother's disappearance.
Authorities in California said Saturday they didn't find the remains of Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old college student who went missing in 1996, after finishing their search of a home tied to the man convicted of killing her.
Nearly 30 years after 19-year-old Kristin Smart disappeared, California investigators conducted new search warrants as part of their ongoing probe into the location of her body.
The U.S. Coast Guard Southeast Division said Tuesday it is "asking the public for info about the disappearance of Lynette Hooker."
The FBI was shut out of the Nancy Guthrie investigation for the first four days, FBI Director Kash Patel claimed in a new interview.
A body found in Tampa Bay has been identified as the second missing University of South Florida doctoral student from Bangladesh, a sheriff said Friday.