Blood samples don't match Nevaeh's DNA

MONROE, Mich. - Monroe County Sheriff Tilman Crutchfield said preliminary DNA results taken earlier in the week from a motel room where person of interest George Kennedy stayed, does not match Nevaeh Buchanan's DNA.

In a news release early Friday evening, blood evidence that was submitted to the Michigan State Police crime lab in Northville, Mich., in northwestern Wayne County "failed to match that of Nevaeh Buchanan."

Police obtained a search warrant Tuesday and searched a room at the Motel 7 on South Dixie Highway that has been occupied by Kennedy. Among the items removed for processing were blood-stained shorts, shirts, and towels.

"I think it's going to help us either focus or wash certain individuals out," FBI Agent Andrew Arena said Friday morning.

Kennedy, a convicted sex offender, is being held on an unrelated parole violation, police said.

City and county police have remained tight-lipped on most of the investigation. Sheriff Crutchfield and Agent Arena both stressed that no arrests have been made.

Meanwhile, searches and interviews continued as the hunt for little Nevaeh hit its fifth day. Friday evening, hundreds of volunteers wearing yellow shirts fanned out once again to search, each for their own reason.

"I have three kids, so it's unnerving that someone so close to her age is taken in the area by us," said Sarah Dubroy. "I hope that if something like this happens to us, too, they would come together like this."

Friday afternoon the task force re-searched a wooded area with shovels and rakes next to the Charlotte Arms Apartments Friday in the continual search for the 5-year-old.

Friday's search was at least the second time that particular section of woods on Macomb Street was searched near where Nevaeh was reportedly abducted Sunday evening. Several vehicles were also searched and the FBI conducted interviews, asking if residents saw anything Sunday before Nevaeh disappeared.

New information is expected to be released during a news conference Saturday morning, police said.

Another large volunteer search is being planned for Saturday. Ten areas throughout the city which have not been checked are expected to be searched. Any volunteers are asked to meet at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Kmart parking lot at the intersection of Monroe and Poe roads.

(FOX Toledo's Heather Miller and Kristi Leigh contributed to this report)