‘Are you going to find Mommy?’ Texas mom’s body found days after vanishing on movie night
By Josh Magness
Emily Wade vanished in Ennis, Texas, on January 5 after she went to watch a movie with a co-worker, police say. Her mom Shirley Wade says she is “scared to death” the 38-year-old won’t return.
Ennis Police Department
UPDATE: On Monday, Ennis police announced Emily Wade’s body had been found in Chambers Creek, WFAA reported. Police are awaiting autopsy results but believe she may have been swept away by high waters on the night she vanished. Her vehicle remains missing. The original story is below.
It had been 10 days since her daughter vanished after leaving a co-worker’s house, and Shirley Wade was growing increasingly nervous.
Police say her 38-year-old daughter Emily Wade — from Ennis, Texas — has been missing since Jan. 5, when she went to watch a movie at her co-worker’s house, according to KPRC. Two people at the house said she showed up for the movie night — and then left around 9 p.m., police say.
Before Monday’s discovery, her family was still hoping for any sign of Emily Wade. Jared Jones, who has a child with the missing woman, said her disappearance had been particularly challenging for their 7-year-old, according to NBC’s “Today.”
“We just want her home, and every night, me and my daughter, we pray together that we are going to find her,” Jones said, according to NBC’s “Today.” “It gets harder and harder every day to keep the hope.”
Despite any clear leads, Jones said he had to maintain a strong face for his confused daughter.
“She asks me, ‘Daddy are you going to find Mommy?’ I tell her yes, what, when, or how we’re going to do that,” Jones said, according to WFAA. “Every silver car we see, we break our neck to see if it’s something.”
“We don’t know what to say to her, but we’re going to have to say something to her,” he told the outlet. “She’s very intuitive and she knows something is wrong.”
Despite the odd circumstances, “no foul play is suspected,” Ennis Police Department Lt. Michael Hopson said, according to NBC.
