Search Continues for Athens Woman

Kristen Bywater has always looked up to her older sister.

"She's always tried to be there for me,? said Kristen. ?She's always said family is the most important thing to her."

Cayle Bywater longed for family get-togethers. Now, she?s united her family on a mission to find her.

?She's so creative and so friendly and the one breaking the silence with a funny joke or story,? says Kristen. ?She's very important to me."

Kristen is a middle-school teacher in Metro Atlanta, but for the past ten days, that job has been on hold while she tends to the business of finding her Cayle.

Right now, investigators do not believe Cayle's disappearance has any connection to the death of hiker Meredith Emerson, who was found in Dawson County after an extensive search.

The missing woman's loved ones spent Tuesday passing out a new flyer. Several family members have been away from their homes and jobs in Atlanta so they can concentrate on the search in Athens.

?I can't give up my life in Atlanta,? said Cayle?s mother Valery Bywater. ?I can't give up looking for her either.?

The newest flyers include Cayle in the background of a photograph taken in Athens Memorial Park the day she vanished. The picture has generated some new information, but not enough.

Cayle was last seen walking her dog in the park on December 29th. Her dog was later found at her home, where investigators also found an open door, her car, keys, and cell phone. All of it has her family baffled, and determined.

"None of us will stop until she's found,? said Cayle?s mother.