By Becky Noland

MONTE VISTA - Authorities are tight-lipped, but it appears there may be a break pending in the case of the 19-year-old girl who has been missing for a month.

"We can't say anything, but I can tell you that Undersheriff Martinez will probably have something to say to you guys in the next couple of days," RGSO deputy Boyd Wheelwright said Tuesday morning when pressed by a reporter.

Undersheriff Charles Martinez was "out in the field" working on the case and couldn't be reached for comment, deputies said.

Persistent rumors about the case have been swirling throughout the Valley for weeks, ever since Danice Day, a 19-year-old waitress at Dos Rios Restaurant in Monte Vista, disappeared Jan. 9. Police have questioned her boyfriend, Victor Braun, but no arrests have been made in the case.

One of the rumors circulating around the Valley is that Day's body was found last night at Navajo State Park, but nobody at the Archuleta County Sheriff's Office or the Southern Ute Police Department had any knowledge of a body being discovered recently at the lake.

"We would certainly know about something like that, " said a spokesperson from the Southern Ute Police Department. "We're here every day."

Last week frustrated local sheriff's deputies called in the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to help out in the missing person case. The Rio Grande Sheriff's Department has put in hundreds of hours on the case, says Undersheriff Charles Martinez. Undersheriff Martinez said he's been working on the case" "day and night nonstop for three weeks."

Victor Braun, Day's boyfriend with whom she had been living at the time of her disappearance, has agreed to take a polygraph test, police said. But as of last week, Martinez said "he keeps putting it off." It is believed, but unconfirmed, that Victor Braun took a polygraph test early this week.

Danice Day's parents were contacted Tuesday morning and said the Rio Grande County Sheriff's Department haven't contacted them about any recent breaks in the case.