Steffey still missing; Wabash scoured

The search for 19-year-old Purdue freshman Wade Steffey still continues as investigators search for more clues.\nPurdue University spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg said two officers from the Purdue Police Department spoke with some of Steffey's friends in Bloomington.\n"As part of any investigation you talk to people that know the principals in it," Norberg said. "They're just gathering information."\nSteffey's parents, Dale Steffey and Dawn Adams, have asked police to visit their home in Bloomington to search Wade Steffey's personal belongings for any additional clues. They asked police to look in his bedroom where there was a computer in his room that he used until he got a laptop last summer, Dale Steffey said.\n"We're just trying to give them as much as we can that might help them do their job," he said.\nYesterday, searchers with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and a fourth boat from the Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department searched nearby Wabash River in the morning and again in the afternoon, Norberg said. This marks the second day in a row the river has been searched. When Steffey first went missing, past attempts found nothing.\nNorberg said there were no leads or clues in why the river was being searched, but it was "just an obvious place to look," Norberg said.\nNorberg also said the Tippecanoe Sheriff's Department searched the river from the air Friday. \n"We expect the state police to provide a helicopter that will fly over the river," Norberg said. "We're really interested right now because the water level is low," she said.\nInvestigators plan on searching a "retention pond" with a police dog team to conduct a sonar check of the area this Saturday, according to a news release.\nMore than 150 tips on the case have been received, Norberg said. \nSteffey, a National Merit Scholar majoring in aviation technology, was last heard from in the early morning hours of Jan. 13 after attending a Phi Theta Kappa fraternity party at Purdue.\nFamily and friends of Steffey say he was not intoxicated and was not seen drinking much. Steffey's father told Fox News that his friends saw him have one drink. Steffey is a resident of Bloomington and graduated from Bloomington High School South.\nSteffey's parents have established a reward fund being administered by Fifth Third Bank in Central Indiana. The reward is for anyone who can give tips where their son is located.\nSteffey was last seen wearing a white long-sleeved shirt with light blue stripes and light-colored jeans. He is white with short, brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. \nAnyone with information is asked to call the Purdue University Police Department at (765) 494-8221. Anonymous callers can contact the police at (765) 496-3784.