A national search team was deployed in Ohio this week to look for a young mother who disappeared amid "very suspicious" circumstances. Christine Slinger, 27, went missing in Massillon, Ohio, Aug. 20.

The national search team was brought in upon request by Slinger’s family. The young mother was last seen being picked up by her daughter’s father, authorities said.

Slinger had an 8-year-old daughter with Steven Stafford. Shortly after she disappeared, however, Stafford committed suicide, WKYC-TV reported. Stafford was questioned by police the day after Slinger went missing and agreed to undergo a polygraph test. He never showed up to the scheduled test the next day and was subsequently found dead inside his home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A non-profit known as Texas Equusearch, which was involved in the searches for Natalee Holloway and Caylee Anthony, was deployed this weekend to aid in the search for Singer. The Ohio-Midwest chapter of the organization searched remote areas using drones, horses, sonar and other methods around Massillon Saturday.

“We’re going to check brush piles, of course,” David Rader of the Ohio chapter of Texas Equusearch told WKYC. “If something doesn’t look right then we’ll investigate it a little bit further, but right now we’re just concentrating on pieces of land that make the most sense and whatever we come across we’ll investigate it as we go.”

More than 30 people were involved in Saturday’s search for Slinger.

“We were looking for seclusion of course, where you could hide a body,” Rader told WJW-TV.

It remained unclear, what, if anything, the search yielded.

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