Found Deceased TX - Emily Wade, 38, Ennis, Ellis County, 5 Jan 2019

[GuyfromCanada]

A worried family and a concerned police department are asking for the public’s help to find a woman who vanished without a trace on Saturday night.

“I’m scared to death, I’ll be honest with you,” Shirley Wade told WFAA on Wednesday morning, four days after she last saw her 38-year-old daughter Emily. “I’m scared to death. I just don’t know what’s wrong.”

Emily Wade, a waitress at the local Ennis Chili’s restaurant, and the mother of a 7-year-old girl, told Shirley Wade Saturday night she was going to a co-worker’s house on Clay Street to eat pizza and watch a movie. That was around 5:30 Saturday evening. Ennis police tell WFAA they have talked with a male friend who says he last saw Emily Wade drive away around 8:30 that same night. Police say he is cooperating with the investigation.

“I don’t know where she is. She’s been gone now for four days. And it’s killing me. I love her so much, and I just want her to come home,” Shirley Wade said.

Emily Wade is originally from Kentucky. The car she was driving was her mom’s 2012 silver Nissan Altima with Kentucky license plates 411 PAZ.

“We just want her home,” said Jared Jones, the father of Emily Wade’s 7-year-old daughter. The couple shares custody but as of this morning, Jones hadn’t yet told his daughter that her mom is missing.

“It’s going to break her heart. We don’t know what to say to her but we’re going to have to say something to her. She’s very intuitive and she knows something is wrong.”

Her family says Emily Wade’s bank account hasn’t been touched, that her cell phone, one she only uses for text messaging, hasn’t been used either. They are baffled. So are police and both are asking for the public’s help to bring Emily home.

“No she’s never done anything like this before,” Shirley Wade said. “That’s what scares me. She would not do this to her mother. I know she would not do it to me. She knows how I worry.”

“She would not do this to me. She would not do this to her daughter. No, nothing like this.”

If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of Emily Wade please contact Det. Sgt. Rodney Rickman or Det. Sgt. Jason York at 972-875-1234 ext. 2293.

Police searching for missing Ennis mother last seen Saturday

 

[GuyfromCanada]

WFAA news video

Search still on for missing Ennis woman

 

[Schmitz5100]

This story has my interest. We need more details.

 

[chi123]

Ugh, we’ve seen this movie before about a thousand times. Hopefully this will be different and she’s ok, just needed to get away for a few days

 

[dyannaON]

Here we go again. I already smell two people that are probably being looked at closely. Jmo and all that jazz.

 

[calo44]

Her car is missing, too, right?

I’m guessing they’ve already started searching security cameras around the co-worker’s house and police mobile license plate readers. Any bodies of water on the way home from co-worker’s? You’re right, we need more info...

 

[CuriousMaine]

This story has my interest. We need more details.

Mine too. Honestly, her mother's plea grab my heart and won't let go.

 

[CluelessWonder]

She has an FB page, but she rarely posts on it. Her little girl is very cute. It sounds like it's one of those cases where family members have to uproot themselves and travel great distances to search for their loved one. It appears that she was a long-time service industry worker. They seem to have a lot of co-worker friends. A movie plus dinner by 8:30 p.m. seems odd to me. So it's not like she needed to get to bed. It was a Saturday night, after all. Chili's isn't open for breakfast. She likely is used to late nights if she has been working evenings at Chili's.

 

[zecats]

Mine too. Honestly, her mother's plea grab my heart and won't let go.

I feel the same. Feeling the pain behind her mom's pleas. Hoping this one has a happy ending. Afraid to ponder on other possibilities.

 

[calo44]

She has an FB page, but she rarely posts on it. Her little girl is very cute. It sounds like it's one of those cases where family members have to uproot themselves and travel great distances to search for their loved one. It appears that she was a long-time service industry worker. They seem to have a lot of co-worker friends. A movie plus dinner by 8:30 p.m. seems odd to me. So it's not like she needed to get to bed. It was a Saturday night, after all. Chili's isn't open for breakfast. She likely is used to late nights if she has been working evenings at Chili's.

I was thinking the same thing - the 8:30 departure time seems really early for a Saturday night unless it was one of those, “this is not a date, okay, we are just friends! I can do an early movie and dinner, but this is not a date” things IMO. Do we know if her mom was watching her child during the time she was out (I’m just guessing so, since she was driving mom’s car)?

 

[zecats]

I was thinking the same thing - the 8:30 departure time seems really early for a Saturday night unless it was one of those, “this is not a date, okay, we are just friends! I can do an early movie and dinner, but this is not a date” things IMO. Do we know if her mom was watching her child during the time she was out (I’m just guessing so, since she was driving mom’s car)?

And is the co-worker where she went to have pizza and watch a movie at 5:30 the same person as the man who last saw her driving away at 8:30? I assume it is, but the reporting is worded awkwardly.

It's possible to have pizza and watch a movie in 3 hours, so maybe was just a friendship or she needed to call it an early night for some reason.

 

[doodles1211]

There doesn't seem to be much to Ellis County, TX. Ennis appears very very small. There is a huge lake just outside of town... Bardwell Lake.

Google Maps

 

[MimosaMornings]

A cell phone that is only used for text messaging? So you can’t make calls on it?

 

[cluciano63]

A cell phone that is only used for text messaging? So you can’t make calls on it?

Jmo, am guessing just a basic phone that also texts...like mine not an i-phone. I have had mine for years...just discovered it has a (very bad) camera last week...

 

[happyday]

The fact that her car hasn’t been found is worrisome. Unless she did just take off far away which just seems odd having just finished work and a movie at a friends’ house. IDK it just doesn’t seem like a time to just run away—in mom’s car and with a daughter at home. I really hope they’re searching that lake.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Jmo, am guessing just a basic phone that also texts...like mine not an i-phone. I have had mine for years...just discovered it has a (very bad) camera last week...

Aha. I have friends that have flip phones for just phone calls, it was the way it was described that threw me.
Just voice/text - no internet.

 

[doodles1211]

A cell phone that is only used for text messaging? So you can’t make calls on it?

A lot of people that have phones, but no cellular service, will use free wifi and download free text apps. Of course they can only text while in the wifi areas.

 

[tiffkinsadder]

I’m worried. Praying.

 

[tiffkinsadder]

Ps. What in the world is going on here in Texas?

 

[calo44]

And is the co-worker where she went to have pizza and watch a movie at 5:30 the same person as the man who last saw her driving away at 8:30? I assume it is, but the reporting is worded awkwardly.

It's possible to have pizza and watch a movie in 3 hours, so maybe was just a friendship or she needed to call it an early night for some reason.

Like maybe she wasn’t romantically interested (and maybe he was) so the early departure time was her “out”? MOO. Maybe he wanted more than just friendship and things went badly?

Just speculating, but it sounds like she left KY with daughter recently. She may have left quickly without money, car, etc. - might explain her “text only phone” and borrowed car?