ELBA, Minn. – Searchers started a second full day to find an Elba man who walked out into the night during a conversation with police late Tuesday at his house. Jeff Mueller, Winona County chief deputy sheriff, said the only possible clue has been a pair of jeans found in brambles in the heavily forested area near Elba but, Mueller said, the jeans may nor may not belong to Bruce Wiza. Late Tuesday night Wiza, age 59, walked out of a routine police welfare check after his wife reported him missing. As deputies were en route, she found him in their large, rambling house. As deputies were talking with him to sort through the situation, Wiza ducked out a back door. He hasn’t been seen since. On Wednesday bout 40 searchers, mostly from the sheriff’s office and also first-responders from area fire departments, went door to door in Elba and searched up and down roads in and out for about a mile. Two drones found no trace. No did search hounds.
