COBB COUNTY, Ga — Detectives and crews from the medical examiner’s office spent much of the day Tuesday digging up the backyard of a Cobb County home looking for clues in the case of a missing mother.
Tiffany Whitton has been missing since last September. Whitton’s former boyfriend, Ashley Caudle, was last seen with her at a Marietta Walmart.
Tuesday, Cobb County police brought Marietta detectives and representatives of the medical examiner's officer to serve a search warrant at Peggy Bailey’s home.
Bailey is Caudle's mother. She showed Channel 2’s Ross Cavitt bruises and complained that police cuffed her and roughed her up.
“But I should not be treated like I did something wrong when I’m in my home and would have gladly let them come in and get whatever they wanted,” Bailey said.
Caudle now sits in the Cobb County jail, swept up in a large meth bust at the same home, a bust Channel 2 Action News covered last March.
“The detectives have received tips and leads that have led them to this location. They were currently working with the Cobb County medical examiner’s office and as you can see in the back, going through, you know, quite a bit of the yard, as much of the house, looking for any clues and stuff in the case,” Officer David Baldwin told Cavitt.
Neighbors said they saw Whitton one or two times at the home visiting Caudle.
"I knew Ashley and I knew they fought a lot. So, every time I saw them, they were fighting,” neighbor Christopher Worthman said.
After their daylong search, police would only say that they have evidence that they still need to analyze.