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.

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.