Timeline
• 11 a.m.: Rita Maze, after visiting family in Helena, fills up with gas at a Holiday Station in Helena and begins the drive home to Great Falls on Interstate 15.
11:25 a.m.: Maze speaks to her husband, Bob, by cellphone, telling him that she might go visit her mother before leaving Helena.
• 3:40 p.m.: Bob Maze begins to worry about his wife and called her multiple times.
• 4:15 p.m.: A credit card of Maze’s is used in a convenience store in Kingston, Idaho.
• 5:30 p.m.: Bob Maze calls his daughter, Rochelle Maze, and the two begin calling family.
• 8:20 p.m.: The Maze family reports her missing to authorities.
• 9 p.m.: Authorities begin trying to search for the phone. A license-plate reader also picked up Maze’s car in Post Falls, Idaho. A license plate reader takes a photo of the license plate.
• 9:55 p.m.: Maze’s credit card is used in Ritzville, Wash.
• At 10:25 p.m.: Maze calls her husband and daughter. She tells them she’s in a trunk of a vehicle, but she’s not sure if it’s hers. She said she was struck on the head and forced into the trunk of her car at a rest stop near Wolf Creek north of Helena. Also, sometime in the late evening, a Helena police officer, searching for Maze, calls her cellphone number and she answers. They speak for 10 minutes. She tells him she doesn’t know where she’s at.
• 11 p.m.: The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is notified by the Helena Police Department that Maze is missing and is possibly in the area of Spokane County. • 1:30 a.m.: Following Maze’s cellphone, Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputies find Maze’s black Grand Prix on the 7600 block of West Geiger Blvd., which is near the Spokane International Airport just west of Spokane. Maze is in the car, deceased. Nobody else was found at the scene./QUOTE]
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