WESTLAKE VILLAGE : Search Widens for Missing Nurse, 34

Ventura County sheriff’s deputies widened their search Friday for a Westlake Village nurse who has been missing since Tuesday, when she failed to pick up her 5-year-old son at school.

Lt. Lary Reynolds said sheriff’s deputies used cars and a helicopter to search roads and rugged hillsides in the Santa Monica Mountains from Topanga Canyon to Hidden Valley looking for any sign of Kellie O’Sullivan, 34.

O’Sullivan was last seen Tuesday afternoon in a Westlake Village podiatrist’s office about a mile from her home. She had run several errands after leaving work at 12:30 at a Canoga Park medical clinic and stopped at the office to pick up some photos from a friend. She never made it to her son’s Calabasas school to pick him up, authorities said.

“We’ve received phone calls from people giving us information, giving us names of friends to contact,” Reynolds said. “We haven’t come up with anything that would lead us anywhere but places we’ve already been.”

O’Sullivan’s family has begun posting flyers as far away as Santa Barbara, bearing her picture and a description of her black 1991 Ford Explorer, license number 2VPL883.

Reynolds said deputies also have distributed flyers to police and park rangers in northwestern Los Angeles County and a description of O’Sullivan and her vehicle has been put out on a nationwide police computer network.

Meanwhile, her family is growing increasingly worried.

“The problem in a case like this is she could be anywhere,” said Kevin White, O’Sullivan’s boyfriend. “She could be 100 miles from here if somebody pulled a gun and made her drive. We don’t have anything to go on. If we did, we could initiate a search, but there isn’t even a starting point.”