Police continue search for mother of abandoned child

RENO -- Searchers continued to look for clues into the disappearance of a Reno woman whose husband allegedly abandoned her child in Utah.

Local law enforcement authorities combed Peavine Peak just northwest of Reno over the weekend, but found no trace of Jeanette Acord, 28, who also goes by Jeanette Corpuz, Snyder and Montgomery.

The woman was last heard from Jan. 21 in a telephone call to her ex-husband, Joel Corpuz, in Newark, Calif. -- a call police think was placed from her Reno home.

The search for Acord began after her husband, Lyle Montgomery, was suspected of abandoning her 3-year-old son Jan. 25 at a ShopKo in Salt Lake City.

Montgomery, 42, a pharmacy manager at a Super Kmart in Reno, was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital last week and identified as a suspect in the case involving his wife.

Authorities are treating her disappearance as a homicide.

Police said they are searching for Acord in a number of unidentified areas and are following numerous leads.

Police last week found a newly purchased wheelbarrow, pair of gloves, shovel, pick and saw when searching Montgomery's Reno home.

They also found blood stains in a shower and hallway as well as on a carpet pad in the master bedroom that had been rolled up and moved.