There were no signs of a struggle inside the car. Wells' change purse, with cash still inside, was found in a nearby ditch. The passenger's and driver's side doors were standing open. It bore several scratches and was spattered with mud. Out of gas, the car appeared to have stopped in its tracks in the road's westbound lane. Motorists had stopped and tried to turn on the hazard lights, but the battery was dead. Her white, Plymouth Acclaim, rented in Tulsa, was found abandoned in a rural part of Perry County, near New Germantown, along Route 274, early in the morning of April 13.
The friend immediately filed a missing person report with Middlesex Township police. When entering the room, they found Wells' belongings, apparently untouched. There was no answer at the door of Denise's room. Wells' disappearance was discovered when her friend arrived at the Pike Motel early on April 13 to meet Denise as they'd planned. Wells also told her friend she was going to go to a McDonald's restaurant for dinner, and then return to the motel to sleep. She called her friend to tell her she was not going to make it to New Jersey and made plans for the friend to drive to the hotel the next day. Wells was when she called her friend in New Jersey about 7:30 p.m.
She checked into the Pike Motel in Middlesex Township, outside Carlisle, and asked for directions to McDonald's, at about 8 p.m. Wells' family was not worried about the length of the trip because she had driven long distances when she lived in South Dakota. She told her mother she was going to visit a high school friend who used to live in Haskell and planned to be back in about four days. She dropped off her son at her parents' home April 10 before she left on the trip. As far as I could find this case hasn't been brought up in a year so I felt like it could use the exposure.ĭenise Wells, a single mother of Haskell, Oklahoma, was traveling cross-country in April 1994 to to visit with a childhood friend in New Jersey.
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