Search Is Under Way for Congressional Candidate Gary Dodds

[MsUSA]

April 6, 2006 — - A massive search is underway for New Hampshire Congressional candidate Gary Dodds, who disappeared without a trace following a single-car accident last night, New Hampshire state police officials told ABC News.

Dodds' wife Cynthia remained today at the scene of the accident along the southbound side of New Hampshire's Spaulding Turnpike, where state and local police and area fire departments are searching with dogs, helicopters and marine patrol divers, senior campaign staffer Bonnie Winona said.

New Hampshire state police have issued a missing persons bulletin, a spokesman said.

The accident occurred near the Great Bay, a inland tidal estuary, Winona said.


Dodds, the Democratic challenger to U.S. Representative Jeb Bradley, had left a Democratic committee meeting in Somersworth, N.H., and was traveling to Portsmouth to meet with a campaign fiscal agent, with whom Dodds was to finish up some federal election commission filings, Winona said.

"He never showed up for the <8:30 p.m.> meeting'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=1814181

[Greeby]

1. ho boy

:(

[SharonRB]

2. Here we go again

All of the Dem candidates need to be careful. I smell some funny business going on here.

[Janice325]

3. Uh oh!

I have a really bad feeling.....

[malaise]

6. WTF

not another Wellstone?

[NYC]

4. If it was a single car accident, and he is missing,

that would indicate that he wandered off on his own, perhaps not mentally capable of knowing where he was and what he was doing.

Wouldn't that mean that he was within walking distance of the car?

[JAbuchan08]

11. Perhaps, but if *I* retained any of my faculties I wouldn't be wandering

off after I'd been in a car accident

[NYC]

13. Perhaps he was in a daze.

People stagger away from accident scenes. But, they don't get far.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Conyers, watch your back please.

[warrens]

7. That's a dark, lonely road at night

It's near UNH, and it runs through estuaries, so there are no houses or much of anything apart from a famous lobster place. If you wanted to off someone, it would be a good place.

[wordpix]

8. tinfoil hat time, Dem candidates, watch your backs and don't travel alone

[eleny]

9. New Hampshire Burning?

[BrklynLiberal]

10. The situation is such, that one cannot help but put on a tinfoil hat.

:tinfoilhat:

[Us vs Them]

12. WHY ARE YOU DRIVING ALONE??

Stupid. I mean honestly. It's not conspiracy, it's common sense. This shit is war.

[liberalla]

14. They FOUND him !!!

Authorities find man missing after accident

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4739603&nav=4QcS

[liberalla]

15. more info....

"DOVER, N.H. (AP) _ New Hampshire State Police say they have found Gary Dodds, a congressional candidate from Rye, alive in the woods.

Police at the search site say Dodds is moving in and out of consciousness, and needs medical attention. His wife Cynthia, who was helping with the search, was on her way to meet him.

Dodds, who is 41, had been missing since a single-car accident on the Spaulding Turnpike in Dover last night. When emergency workers arrived, the car was empty.

A search involving State Police and dog teams followed."