WACO, Texas -- They tried to ease the somber task by making jokes, but tears still flowed as the family and friends of missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy went to his apartment to remove his belongings.

"I think that I got the most emotional of everybody else, just seeing different things that were there that ... we would, you know, wear together, matching stuff that we had," Dennehy's girlfriend of two years, Jessica De La Rosa, told ESPN.

She and one of Dennehy's friends went to the third-floor apartment Wednesday with the player's mother and stepfather, Valorie and Brian Brabazon, and their daughter.

The apartment complex -- with well-manicured lawns, swimming pool and sand volleyball court -- is across the street from the gold-domed Ferrell Center, where Dennehy hoped to play this winter. He sat out last season after transferring from New Mexico last year, as mandated by NCAA rules.

The police search for his body was delayed because of rain Wednesday morning, but authorities said they planned to keep searching sites given to them by Dennehy's former teammate and roommate, Carlton Dotson, now charged with murder.

"Patrick has been nothing but a great, caring friend to Carlton ... so I just don't even know what has happened there," said De La Rosa, who lives in Albuquerque, N.M.

Brian Brabazon said Wednesday that Dennehy's mother was "very upset." Since Dennehy was last seen in mid-June, relatives have said they believed he could be alive.

Two campus ministers spent several hours with the family Wednesday, said a Baylor spokeswoman, Lori Scott Fogleman.

Brabazon said he was not sure whether the family would meet with athletic department officials during the Waco trip. He and his wife have said that Dennehy was threatened shortly before his disappearance and reported the threats to his coaches.

Valorie Brabazon told The Dallas Morning News for a story in Thursday's editions that, after Dennehy disappeared, De La Rosa told her that assistant coach Rodney Belcher was one of at least two Baylor coaches Dennehy went to this spring to say he was being threatened.

"I talked to Coach Rodney," the mother said. "He said Patrick had come to him and said that someone was stalking him. ... But the coach said my son never gave him a name.

"The coach said Patrick didn't ask him for help. But I said, 'That's a help-me call.' You shouldn't have to say, 'Could you please call the police?'"

Brian Brabazon said his wife was unavailable for comment Wednesday night. He declined to comment.

"This isn't going to help us find Patrick," he told The Associated Press. "We have more questions than we have answers. I don't want to be talking about that."

Belcher, who coached at New Mexico during Dennehy's time there, could not be reached for comment.

Basketball coach Dave Bliss repeatedly has said Dennehy never told the coaching staff about any threats.

Brabazon also said police have told family members that Dotson provided investigators with three locations to search for Dennehy's body. Authorities searched gravel pits south of Waco and along the river banks Tuesday.

Police Sgt. Ryan Holt said Wednesday afternoon that he would not release any more information about searches or other details about the case the rest of the day.

Dotson, 21, was charged Monday night with murder after he told FBI agents in Maryland that he shot his teammate in the head after Dennehy tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant.

Meanwhile, an Aug. 19 extradition hearing was scheduled for Dotson in Chestertown, Md. Dotson, who recently lost his scholarship and was not planning to return to Baylor in the fall, remains jailed without bond near his hometown.

Six-foot-10, 230-pound Dennehy, 21, was last seen on campus June 12; his family reported him missing June 19. The next day, Delaware police told Waco authorities that an informant said Dotson told someone he shot Dennehy in the head after the two argued.

Dennehy's Tahoe was found abandoned, without license plates, in a Virginia Beach, Va., mall parking lot June 25.