NOVEMBER 14:

Friends and family of the missing Jackson County woman aren't giving up hope 27-year-old Alisha Sidie is still somewhere out there alive. Sidie's best friend says wherever Alisha is, she's fighting.

Jessica Millis says, "It's been horrible. I feel like I'm missing something in my life."

Jessica Millis and Alisha Sidie have been best friends for 17 years.
But now the unthinkable has happened. Sidie's been missing for a week, and there's been no sign of her.

Sergeant Pat LaBarbera says, "We've been on the water today, we have dogs as well on the water today as we have dogs on land as well."

On Friday, dive teams used underwater sonar in a canal looking for Sidie. But still nothing. The Sheriff's Department says it still hasn't decided whether to let volunteer search parties back into the woods.

Jessica Millis says, "We're feeling really helpless right now. We've realized we don't want to hinder their investigation at all. We do understand that. But it's just so hard to sit around. We know she's out there somewhere."

Millis says while Alisha’s twin 2-year-old boys have a hard time understanding what's going on, they still know mom isn't there.

Jessica Millis says, "Every time she came on the news the boys would come up and kiss her on the TV. and it's just heartbreaking."

Millis says Alisha would never do something like this.

Jessica Millis says, "She would not leave those boys. She wouldn't ever. Those boys are her world."

Millis says no matter what happens, family and friends will keep looking for Alisha.

Jessica Millis says, "We'll never give up hope. Never. Never. Until she's found, period."

The Sheriff's Department says it's not singling out any particular person right now and is still treating it as a missing person's case.

Anyone with any information about Alisha Sidie is asked to call the Jackson County Sheriff's Department. That number is 715-284-5357.

Millis says more missing person fliers have been made up. She says with the gun-deer season coming up, the fliers will be handed out around Jackson County when someone registers a deer, or stays in a hotel or at a campsite. Friends and family say they want to get Alisha’s picture and information out there, so hopefully hunters will keep their eyes open.

Family and friends gathered Thursday night to hold a vigil in the Jackson County town of Hatfield. Alisha's loved ones held onto each other, raising their candles, hugging, crying, and telling stories about the woman they’re so desperately hoping returns safe and sound.

NOVEMBER 13:

The search for Alisha Sidie took a different turn on Thursday- volunteer searchers were called off and technicians with the state crime lab arrived in Hatfield. Sidie is 5’5” and around 140 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing light blue scrubs and a long-sleeved white t-shirt near her home in Hatfield on Friday, November 7. Anyone with information should call the Jackson County Sheriff's Department at 715-284-5357.

CLICK HERE to read the latest press release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department. The release came out on Friday, November 14, just before 12 p.m.

The Jackson County sheriff says Sidie's ex-husband, Doug Sidie, is now being called a "person of interest" in her disappearance. Sheriff Duane Waldera says Doug Sidie is cooperating with investigators and this is still a missing person's case. We tried to call Doug Sidie on his cell phone Thursday night, but were unable to reach him for comment.

"I wouldn't call (Doug Sidie) a suspect, but since he is the ex-husband and the last person that had contact with her, he's definitely a person that we have to be interested in because that's where we're getting the information,” Waldera says. “We'd like to find Alisha, hopefully alive. We'd love a moment where she would call and say 'I’m OK' or some direction that would give us another area to search and focus on."

He says no evidence has turned up to prove there was a crime committed. At the same time, the sheriff says investigators are no closer to finding the missing woman.

Six days after Alisha Sidie walked away from the Hatfield home she shares with her ex-husband, the house was surrounded in crime tape. On Thursday, crime lab technicians searched for any clue that could lead them to the missing mother of twin two-year-olds. A pick up truck was also taken from the property to be processed.

"They're going through and checking to see if they can find any evidence. They’re looking to see if there was a crime that has been committed in there," Sheriff Waldera says.

Wednesday night, we talked to Doug Sidie inside that home as he sat with his sons. Doug Sidie says he and Alisha had an argument and she left on foot. Court records show their divorce was final in September of last year, but the couple did still live together.

"Just another difficult day, just the same as all the others,” Doug says. "I just want her to come home.”

“Are you finding mama?” one of the boys asks. “Yeah, buddy,” his dad answers.

Sgt. Pat LaBarbera with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department says three specialized search and rescue teams joined the effort to find Alisha Sidie. LaBarbera says the three teams specialize in human search and rescue efforts. About 35 officers are searching in the water, using ATVs to search the woods, and combing the area on foot. The Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory from Wausau also joined the search and is helping investigators in their search for clues. Dive teams and search dogs remain focused on the lakes and rivers around Hatfield. The volunteer searchers were called off after no clues were found over 1200 acres.

"It's frustrating today (Thursday) to just be standing around and not doing anything," says Alisha's sister Tracy Rowlee.

She says while no longer out in the woods, Alisha's family is trying to keep faith.

"We're trying to stay strong and optimistic, but it’s taking a toll on all of us. We’re not sleeping,” Rowlee says.

Rowlee also admits the crime scene tape draped around the Sidie home is hard for everyone to take. Her only solace is keeping her sister's smiling face on everyone's mind.

“If Alisha's out there, we're begging and pleading please come home. Anybody that did anything wrong, please just bring her home. That's all we want right now,” Rowlee says.

NOVEMBER 12:

Sidie's family members are pleading with the public to help them find her. Alisha Sidie’s sister, mother and ex-husband continue to trek through the woods with the other searchers and say they’re trying to stay optimistic, which gets tougher every day.

"Everyone out there say a prayer for my daughter, Alisha. Please. A prayer," says Alisha's mother, Susan Rowlee. Susan says she hasn’t slept for days because she’s overcome with worry.

She wants everyone to take a long look at the pictures of Alisha- pictures of a daughter, a sister and a mother.

"We have two little twins that she misses and they need their mother. They want to see mom. Please bring her home to us," Susan Rowlee says with tears in her eyes. "For something like this to happen in our community, to Alisha, is just unbelievable. I cannot understand how this would happen. I just hope and pray God will bring her home to us. That's all we ask.”

“Say come home mama,” Alisha’s younger sister Tracy Rowlee says to one of the boys. Seconds later, the tot echoes his auntie.

Zackary and Bryce, who goes by T.J., are only two, but their two little faces are full of questions- questions no one really knows how to answer.

“It’s starting to take a toll on me,” Tracy Rowlee tells us.

The 18-year-old is trying to stay strong for her family, but says it's hard without her older sister.

"Alisha was kind of my backbone. We’re really close,” Tracy Rowlee tells us. “In hard times, she was the person I went to. It's hard not having her here to talk to and to be around."

Sgt. Pat LaBarbera with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department says three specialized search and rescue teams have joined the effort to find missing 27-year-old Alisha Sidie. LaBarbera says the three teams specialize in human search and rescue efforts. About 35 officers are searching in the water, using ATVs to search the woods, and combing the area on foot.

"It's a day by day event,” says Sgt. Patrick LaBarbera with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department. “We're very hopeful we can still bring Alisha home safely. We maintain that positive attitude. Sheriff Waldera is very adamant in his hopes that Alisha will be found safe and sound so we can bring her home."

The Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory from Wausau has also now joined the search and is helping investigators in their search for clues.

NOVEMBER 11:

The sister of a missing woman says hundreds were back out in the woods Tuesday.

Tracy Rowlee says there's still no sign of her sister. 27-year-old Alisha Sidie disappeared from her Hatfield home in Jackson County Friday night.

Tuesday, Rowlee says almost 200 people searched for Sidie. She says the family is still optimistic, but it gets harder to keep that attitude everyday.

NOVEMBER 10:

On Monday, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department and Sidie's family and friends searched around Hatfield, within walking distance of her home. Search parties headed out around noon, in the woods off of County Highway K, where dogs searched for the past few days.

Alisha Sidie’s two-year-old twin boys point to a picture of their mother, as their father Doug Sidie holds them close Monday morning.

“My mama... My mama,” one of Alisha Sidie’s two-year-old twin boys asks for his mama. His father tries to comfort the toddler, “Yeah, that's your mama, buddy," Doug Sidie tells him.

Doug Sidie cuddled his two two-year-olds on a cold Monday morning, before leaving the little ones to search for their mother.

"She's young. She's fun-loving. She's a good mother. She's great with the kids," he says. "A lot of good friends have gotten together and gotten fliers out. She had a lot of good family and friends. I hope she comes home.”

"She brought the boys home. There was a short argument between us two, and then she left on foot,” recalls Sidie. “That’s all I know, for now.”

Around 9:19 p.m, one of Alisha’s friends reported she received a voice-mail from Alisha, frantic and asking for help. However, the Jackson County Sheriff now says there was a tearful phone message left, but there was nothing panicked about it. She was simply asking her friend to return a phone call.

"We do know she made a couple of phone calls right there after 9 o'clock,” says Sheriff Duane Waldera. “As to what was in the phone calls, I do not know."

More than 50 people showed up to help on Monday, first signing up at the Hatfield Fire Department and then congregating at The Mug tavern. The first group of 25 family and friends headed out to search the woods near the East Arbutus County Park, off of County Highway K.

Canine units had heavily searched the area between County Highway K, Clay School Road, nearby railroad tracks and a river. Luther Midelfort’s Medlink helicopter also surveyed the area from the skies, looking for any signs of Alisha.

"I do not have any information that would say that she’s not alive,” says Sheriff Waldera.

"We just want her to come home,” pleads Doug Sidie. “Whatever happened we just want her to come home."