West Suburban Bureau

by Mike Puccinelli
Plainfield, Ill. (CBS) ― Days after a report that cadaver dogs trained to identify dead bodies made a positive hit during a search of missing Plainfield woman Lisa Stebic's home, came news that friends and co-workers of Lisa Stebic hired a psychic.

A family friend told CBS 2 that the group hired the person over the weekend to check out the state park.

Lisa Stebic's colleague, Betty Stubner places flowers where Lisa was last seen.

"Every Monday the flowers are placed on Lisa's doorstep…it means a lot," said Stubner.

Stubner worked with Stebic preparing lunches at Lincoln Elementary School, and she said she came to love the missing mother of two like a daughter.

So Sunday, she, Kim Young, and about eight other colleagues spent hours searching along a construction site in Montgomery, Ill. for any sign of Stebic.

They were led to the particular area by a Morris Ill. psychic. Young and Stubner believe it is near a construction sight where Craig worked.

"We were out here because we got a top from a psychic we went to see who said search the job site that he may have last been at and look for something that had burned or where there had been a fire," said Young, another colleague of Stebic.

Stubner says with the investigation being seemingly stalled, searching the site seemed like the right thing to do.

"We've tried everything else," said Betty Stubner. "All the ladies pooled their information together and we thought a psychic wouldn't hurt."

Lisa Stebic's family spokeswoman, cousin Melanie Greenberg, agrees and appreciates the hard work of Lisa's colleagues.

"I don't know if I believe in psychics or not, but I'm trying to keep an open mind," she said.

Betty believed in the psychic power, Lisa did too -- that is why she appealed to her directly today looking for a sign.

"Lisa we haven't forgotten about you, we love you…we miss you," said Stubner.

The group also searched Silver Springs State Park in Yorkville. They next plan to contact Sylvia Brown, a nationally-known psychic who Stebic was a big fan of.

On Tuesday, Young and another of Stebic's colleagues, Amer Zegar, found three bones in the park, in an area where the psychic told them to search for Stebic's remains.

Young and Zegar notified police, who recovered the bones, but testing revealed the bones were not human remains, but deer bones.

 Read more about that development here.

Stebic was reportedly last seen the evening before by her husband, Craig, with whom she was in the middle of a divorce.

Ever since Stebic vanished, hundreds of volunteers have helped search teams from Plainfield and neighboring communities search for her. Area residents also turned out to help distribute her photo around the community, in an effort coordinated by Stebic's cousin, Mark Greenberg, and his wife, Melanie, of Naperville.

A flood of media attention, including an article and pictures of Stebic in People Magazine, has fueled the Stebic case. Community members still show a strong interest in helping however they can, said Melanie Greenberg in a previous interview.

Along with Greenberg, Stebic's sisters created a fund to which donations can be made to increase the reward for information leading to her whereabouts to $50,000. Her family announced a $20,000 reward nine days after Stebic was reported missing. If it isn't claimed, the Lisa Stebic & Children's Fund will be used for the college education of Stebic's two children.

Since Lisa's disappearance, authorities have categorically described the case as a missing persons investigation, saying Lisa's cell phone and credit cards have not been used since she was last reported seen by her husband.

Sources close to the investigation say Lisa's husband, Craig Stebic, allowed authorities to search his home in the Walker's Grove subdivision on two occasions before a search warrant was executed at the home May 14. On one of those prior searches, cadaver dogs were brought in and made a positive hit on an article in the home, an unnamed police source said.

It was not immediately clear whether the dogs zeroed in on an article of clothing, a piece of furniture, an appliance or other item in the home.

Plainfield police have expanded their search to areas outside of Plainfield, but officials did not elaborate on where the search would expand within Illinois or outside the state.

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