By Rocky Mountain News
January 24, 2006
Rio Grande sheriff's deputies are looking at the possibility that a woman who has been missing for four years this month may have been buried in the Monte Vista area, according to a news report.

Sheriff's investigators were digging in an area of the town, according to a report from 9News on Monday. Monte Vista lies between Del Norte and Alamosa in southern Colorado.

Danice Day was 20 years old when she disappeared Jan. 9, 2002. Day's common-law husband, Victor Braun, notified authorities that Day was missing. He last saw Day before she went out to meet with friends. Day, who is the mother of two small children, never returned home.

Family members said they believe Day was a victim of foul play because she never would have left her children at home, according to 9News.

Day is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 105 pounds. She has blond hair and blue eyes. Her left eyebrow and ears are pierced.