By Janice Morse
The Cincinnati Enquirer

PERRY TWP. - Five cadaver-sniffing dogs all have detected a human scent at the search site where investigators and family members hope the remains of Carrie Culberson will be found.

Two additional, and specially-trained, dogs were brought to the pole barn on Fayetteville-Blanchester Road today, "and both of them had hits,'' said Culberson's mother, Debbie.

She said the dogs were being used "just for confirmation and continuing they're in the right spot.''

Authorities have been excavating the ground beneath the barn for nine days looking for the remains of Culberson, the 22-year-old Clinton County woman who disappeared eight years ago.

Despite digging more than 15 feet deep, investigators had been unable to unearth any trace of Culberson.

Authorities won't disclose what led them to the site, but on Wednesday, Jarrod Messer, a man who used to live on the property, was transferred from a Montgomery County prison to the Warren Correctional Institution.

Brown County Sheriff Dwayne Wenninger on Wednesday said Messer was moved closer to the excavation site in case he decides to cooperate with investigators.

Culberson disappeared in 1996. Even without her body, a jury convicted her ex-boyfriend, Vincent Doan, on charges of murder and kidnapping.

He is serving a life sentence.