Disappearance of Kelly Dae Wilson
Kelly Wilson | |
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Wilson at age 17 | |
| Born | Kelly Dae Wilson May 18, 1974 Gilmer, Texas, U.S. |
| Disappeared | January 5, 1992 (aged 17) |
| Status | Missing for 33 years, 11 months and 17 days |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
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Kelly Dae Wilson (born May 18, 1974)[1][2] was an American teenager who went missing on January 5, 1992,[3] from Gilmer, Texas.[4][5]
Disappearance
Wilson was last seen at about 8:30 p.m. on January 5, 1992, as she was leaving her workplace to go to a nearby bank to deposit her paycheck, but she never returned home. The next morning her stepfather found her car at her workplace,[6] and the tires had been slashed and were flat.[7] Her belongings, including her purse, were inside the car, but her keys were missing. Wilson was last seen wearing a purple rugby shirt with red, gold and white insignia and white cuffs and collar, with stonewashed cutoff blue jeans with brown loafers, and she was wearing an assortment of rings.[8]
Investigation and aftermath
The Wilson disappearance remains unsolved.[9][10] A man named Michael Biby was eventually arrested as a suspect in the tire-slashing incident, but was considered to be not linked to Wilson's disappearance.[11] Wilson's boyfriend at the time, Chris Denton, was named by police as a prime suspect in her disappearance, but he was never charged in the case; Denton died of cancer in 2004.[12] In 1994, Sergeant James Brown, along with seven other individuals were indicted by a grand jury, but the case was dismissed. Some of the defendants were found to be guilty of sexually abusing their own children.[13]
See also
References
- ^ "Kelly Dae Wilson – The Charley Project". charleyproject.org. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
- ^ "More Information About Kelly Dae Wilson". geocities.ws. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
- ^ "VANISHED: Kelly Wilson - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ "The Doe Network: Case File 647DFTX". doenetwork.org. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
- ^ "Kelly Dae Wilson - Texas Missing Person Directory". missingin.org. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ^ "Murder In Texas?". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ Pierce, Daniel (May 9, 2017). "Missing in East Texas: The Kelly Wilson case 25 years later". MYEASTTEX. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ^ "Kelly Dae Wilson". nampn.org. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ^ "15 Years Later, Investigators Still Looking For Leads In Kelly Wilson Disappearance". Retrieved April 9, 2018.
- ^ "Episodes 15 & 16 – The Devil in the Pines". The Nowhere Dispatch. March 18, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
- ^ Overton, Mac. Kelly Wilson case remains unsolved The Gilmer Mirror 8 January 2012.
- ^ Wood, Christa (January 5, 2021). "VANISHED: 29 years since 17-year-old Kelly Wilson disappeared, the questions about her case persist". KETK. Nexstar Media Inc. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
- ^ Grossman, Ron. "Murder in Texas?". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved December 16, 2023.