Ada and Mary Ellen were found today. Sadly, they were deceased. The skeleton remains still need to be identified, but the car was found nearby. Thankfully they do not believe that foul play was involved. The story is on wcpo.com.
Just read this a few minutes ago....Family is focusing search areas around Richmond, Indiana and Mansfield, Ohio based on a list of possible sites of interest recently found on a list mixed in with numerous papers of Mrs. Wasson.
I haven’t heard anything on the news or in the paper here in Cincinnati. Usually WLWT does an update on Friday or Saturday, but I didn’t hear anything.
Anyway that these women would have decided on a whim to go to the casino boat in Indiana? I was there yesterday and there were several elderly people. With the route from Otterbein, it could be easy to get lost.
wlwt.com did a story on it this evening. It is also on their website.
This is the story from their website...
TURTLECREEK TOWNSHIP, Ohio — One month after two Warren County women disappeared during a shopping trip, family members have not yet given up searching for the pair. They have searched 8,000 square miles from Columbus to Carrollton, scanning a wide path on both sides of Interstate 71 by air and by land, and still nothing.
Ada Wasson, 80, and Mary Ellen Walters, 68, left Otterbein Retirement Community last month to go shopping at an outlet mall and haven’t been seen or heard from since.
Walters’ son-in-law and others are mapping a new strategy this weekend
They now believe the pair may have left at 4 p.m. instead of 1:30 p.m.
“If that were true, then they would be closer to home,” said Brad Nixon.
They’re restarting the search by exploring a ring around Otterbein, and searchers will each travel 45 miles in different directions.
Family said Wasson never drove at night and always traveled on the side roads.
Searchers will try to peel back the brush on every road, and they will also go onto and into the water.
“(We’ll search) with sonar, with boats (and) with dogs if we can get them, whatever we can take to search all the bodies of water nearby,” Nixon said.