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

[windrower]

I always got the impression that it was a road farmers used to get to their fields in that area and was a minimum maintenance road. There isn’t much other than farm land around the creek, at least there wasn’t when I lived back there, google satillite seems to show it pretty much the same now. We used it to avoid an accident on 287 trying to get to work and approached from the other side. There really isn’t any place to turn around either. You would have to drive backwards for quite a distance if you are in a vehicle that didn’t have a small turn radius.

There are a few sections of road in Ellis and Navarro counties that the locals warned me about, if it says don’t drive with water on the road, you don’t risk it.

Still trying to figure out how she got down there though looking at the maps from the coworkers house to home.

I understand Emily's body was found close to this intersection of Ennis Road and Chambers Creek, but could she have gone in the water farther upstream? Another road crossing maybe?

 

[Seattle1]

Body of missing Texas mom Emily Wade is discovered in a creek bed as police say victim, 37, may have been swept away by flooding waters, but reveal they cannot find her car

• Emily Wade, 37, disappeared on Saturday, January 5, after telling her mother she was going to meet friends
• Her body was discovered in a creek bed on Monday, an police believe she was likely swept away by flooding waters on the night she disappeared
• There is still no sign of her car
• She was last seen by a male co-worker leaving his apartment at 8:30pm after having pizza and watching a movie
• Emily, who has a 7-year-old daughter, had moved to Ennis, Texas so she and her 7-year-old daughter could be closer to her mother
• Wade's cause of death will be determined by a pending autopsy

Police have not said whether they are investigating her death as a homicide or suicide.

But her brother, C W, told Fox News he believed his sister was abducted, or that her car was stolen.

Detectives have cleared Wade's mother, her ex-boyfriend and the father of her daughter, J J, and the co-worker she was watching a movie with on the night she went missing.

Body of missing Texas mom Emily Wade is discovered in a creek bed | Daily Mail Online

 

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[Concernedmamaof3]

I always got the impression that it was a road farmers used to get to their fields in that area and was a minimum maintenance road. There isn’t much other than farm land around the creek, at least there wasn’t when I lived back there, google satillite seems to show it pretty much the same now. We used it to avoid an accident on 287 trying to get to work and approached from the other side. There really isn’t any place to turn around either. You would have to drive backwards for quite a distance if you are in a vehicle that didn’t have a small turn radius.

There are a few sections of road in Ellis and Navarro counties that the locals warned me about, if it says don’t drive with water on the road, you don’t risk it.

Still trying to figure out how she got down there though looking at the maps from the coworkers house to home.

If she were to accidentally get on this road, are you saying it would be hard, especially in the dark to turn around?

 

[PommyMommy]

I understand Emily's body was found close to this intersection of Ennis Road and Chambers Creek, but could she have gone in the water farther upstream? Another road crossing maybe?

Just so we don't have people getting lost on Google Maps, it's Ensign Road.

Ennis Chief of Police John Erisman confirms to Channel 8 News that Wade was found dead in Chambers Creek off of Ensign Road near a low water crossing.
Emily Wade's body found

 

[Tbone144]

If she were to accidentally get on this road, are you saying it would be hard, especially in the dark to turn around?

I would say so yes. I know I would have issues back in the day. We moved to Houston area 6 years ago but from the pics it doesn’t look like they’ve made any improvements. From the far side of the bridge there would have been a lot of back tracking I would think to get to Ennis. We used it to get down to Emhouse and then a county road across to I45. There is no shoulder to speak of, and you are right to ditches, that may have had water in them. No access points to pull into or back into, a small car should have been able to but the drive to the better roads would have taken some time.

 

[zecats]

I understand Emily's body was found close to this intersection of Ennis Road and Chambers Creek, but could she have gone in the water farther upstream? Another road crossing maybe?

The video up thread (very informative) by Gray traces the creek in both directions and he was unable to find any other road crossing. This is the obvious area because of the poor condition of the bridge and the potential for flooding.

 

[happyday]

Oh this is so sad! It sounds like a terrible accident, but I agree with some that it’s strange she would be in that area on her way home. Maybe quite lost is all I can think of.

Most towns in Texas are pretty good at barricading low water crossings before and during floods, but outside of town limits in the country is another story. There are just too many of those to close them all off. Those warning signs are better than most crossings have, which shows how dangerous it could be.

 

[PommyMommy]

Missing Chili's waitress and mom of 7-year-old found dead
Ennis police say a volunteer search party found her body along a creek bed on Monday.

"It was so thick, we couldn't get into where she was found. It was just really, really thick," said volunteer searcher Toney Wade.

The Search for Missing Texas Mom Emily Wade Has Come to a Tragic End
“Volunteers that were working with us on searches located her this morning about 500 yards from Low Water Crossing Bridge on Ensign Road,” Toney Wade of Cajun Coast Search & Rescue Team, a group involved in search efforts, told Law&Crime. “The car has not been found at this point.”

In a phone interview, Wade (no relation to the missing woman) told Law&Crime that the spot was downstream from the bridge. He described the area as being “extremely rural” with farmland, corn fields, and cotton fields.

 

[Timekeeper65]

How did she become separated from her car? Was the water that forceful?

 

[iluvmua]

I don't get the feeling that anything nefarious happened.

I just think she didn't see the flooded creek until it was too late.

Jmo

 

[1mtroyal]

I am not real clear as to the scenario here. She went to a coworker's place to see a movie and have pizza. She could have went to the coworker's place, then they could have left for downtown to see the movie, then went to a pizza place for pizza, then returned to the coworker's place where she left around 8:30. I am not sure that the movie and pizza happened at the coworker's place.

 

[TTF14]

How did she become separated from her car? Was the water that forceful?

She probably got out of her car and attempted to swim/walk to safety and was swept away. This is so very sad. She must have been so scared .

 

[PommyMommy]

How did she become separated from her car? Was the water that forceful?

My guess is that she managed to get out of the vehicle when she knew it was being swept away. I think they'll eventually find the car in that creek.

Google "car swept away in flood" and you'll find lots of videos. TV Meteorologists frequently remind viewers not to drive into standing water (at least, where I live they do) but sadly, people do this - whether knowingly or unknowingly - and it can be deadly.

MOO

 

[jellybean96]

Body of missing Texas mom Emily Wade is discovered in a creek bed as police say victim, 37, may have been swept away by flooding waters, but reveal they cannot find her car

• Emily Wade, 37, disappeared on Saturday, January 5, after telling her mother she was going to meet friends
• Her body was discovered in a creek bed on Monday, an police believe she was likely swept away by flooding waters on the night she disappeared
• There is still no sign of her car
• She was last seen by a male co-worker leaving his apartment at 8:30pm after having pizza and watching a movie
• Emily, who has a 7-year-old daughter, had moved to Ennis, Texas so she and her 7-year-old daughter could be closer to her mother
• Wade's cause of death will be determined by a pending autopsy

Police have not said whether they are investigating her death as a homicide or suicide.

But her brother, C W, told Fox News he believed his sister was abducted, or that her car was stolen.

Detectives have cleared Wade's mother, her ex-boyfriend and the father of her daughter, J J, and the co-worker she was watching a movie with on the night she went missing.

Body of missing Texas mom Emily Wade is discovered in a creek bed | Daily Mail Online

I think the bolded information is interesting. The article doesn't say Police believe it was an accident - it specially says police aren't saying if they are investigating her death as homicide or suicide. I would think if it were clear that it was an accident/water death, then they would say so or atleast something to the effect that they had no reason to suspect homicide or suicide.

 

[windrower]

I understand Emily's body was found close to this intersection of Ennis Road and Chambers Creek, but could she have gone in the water farther upstream? Another road crossing maybe?

Correction! Thank you, PommyMommy! I plead late night feeble-brain-itis

Just so we don't have people getting lost on Google Maps, it's Ensign Road.

Ennis Chief of Police John Erisman confirms to Channel 8 News that Wade was found dead in Chambers Creek off of Ensign Road near a low water crossing.
Emily Wade's body found

Missing Chili's waitress and mom of 7-year-old found dead
Ennis police say a volunteer search party found her body along a creek bed on Monday.

"It was so thick, we couldn't get into where she was found. It was just really, really thick," said volunteer searcher Toney Wade.

The Search for Missing Texas Mom Emily Wade Has Come to a Tragic End
“Volunteers that were working with us on searches located her this morning about 500 yards from Low Water Crossing Bridge on Ensign Road,” Toney Wade of Cajun Coast Search & Rescue Team, a group involved in search efforts, told Law&Crime. “The car has not been found at this point.”

In a phone interview, Wade (no relation to the missing woman) told Law&Crime that the spot was downstream from the bridge. He described the area as being “extremely rural” with farmland, corn fields, and cotton fields.

bbm

Emily was found about 500 yards downstream from the bridge, making this the likely place she accidentally went into the water. IF the car and autopsy tell the same story, that is.

 

[inmyhumbleopinion]

How did she become separated from her car? Was the water that forceful?

Not that I am 100% convinced this is what happened to Emily, I did find a case where the driver and her vehicle became separated during a flood.

The location where the victim’s body was found in the story sounds and looks much like where Emily was found, IMO. Also, this happened only three weeks ago:

“[SBM]

Carol Jackson's vehicle was swept away by floodwater in Pipe Creek, which dozens of people are said to drive over every day, however in this incident the usually-slow flow had turned into a rapid river.

The Clarksburg woman – who was a teacher - contacted her spouse around 6.30pm Monday after seemingly having not realized the water had risen many feet when she took her SUV over the slab bridge in Peppertown.

[SBM]

Rescue efforts using drones and helicopters were hindered by heavy rain and the rough water conditions were even troublesome for agencies on the ground trying to locate Jackson until 10.30pm that night.

Thanks to the collective effort of 150 volunteers plus teams including the Indiana Conservation Officer safety divers, Indiana State Police Aviation, Rescue 24, and Hamilton County Ohio District 8, the car was found downstream at 9.30am the following day but Jackson was discovered six hours later and two miles from the motor at 3.30pm.” (BBM)
Mother's dead body recovered after desperate call to pastor husband as flood swept car off bridge | Daily Mail Online

I suspect in many situations like this, the driver tries to get out of the vehicle, and thus the two being found separately, IMO.

So tragic. And this could very easily happen to anyone, IMO.

 

[Timekeeper65]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question. Gawd. This makes me sick. Terrifying.

 

[1mtroyal]

The autopsy will probably show the cause of death. If it was not drowning, the state and maybe FBI might quickly be entering the scene, and if the car is not located, that might be enough to trigger state or federal officials to enter the scene. IMO

 

[inmyhumbleopinion]

In this story, a witness describes what happened before the victim went missing:

“HOUSTON - The body of a National Guardsman who had gone missing after a haunting Facebook post was found downstream from where his overturned truck had been located earlier.

[SBM]

Mitchell had called his family on Thursday to say he was trapped in flood waters on Highway 105 just outside Brenham on Thursday, reports CBS affiliate KHOU in Houston.

‘(My brother) just said he was all right and he made it out of the truck,’ Ro Mitchell said.

However, shortly after, he posted a picture on Facebook showing floodwaters rising outside his truck, along with a now-tragic message.

Lashandoe Smith, who said she watched in horror when Mitchell's truck was swept into the water, filled in the blanks Friday when she returned to the scene.

‘And he got out of his truck, he got in the bed of his truck, he got back out, on top of his truck, and then all of the sudden he got back in his truck. And like maybe 10, 15 minutes after he was in his truck, it just flipped and he topsided into the water,’ Smith said as she choked back tears. ‘It just disappeared. Once it flipped, you didn't see tires, his truck, nothing. It just tumbled over.’

[SBM]” (BBM)
Body of flood victim who shared haunting Facebook post found