Body found in well months after 19-year-old ‘vanished into the night,’ OK family says
A body was recently found at the bottom of a well months after a 19-year-old man went missing in the area, Oklahoma officials and the man’s family say.
Trey Allen Glass was last seen Dec. 17 near a ranch in the town of Kansas, Oklahoma, according to a missing person’s alert shared by the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office.
The owner of the ranch saw him cutting across his property that night, but didn’t know where he went, the Glass family wrote in a Gofundme page. He had left home two days earlier with a friend, they wrote.
Human remains were discovered in a well at the property, Wilkerson’s Ranch, on April 5, Cherokee Nation Marshals told KOKI. A dive team retrieved the body and it was taken to the medical examiner’s office to be identified, the marshals said.
Some of Glass’ family believe it may be him, though autopsy results are pending, the outlet reported.
“I’m hoping that it’s not my brother and I’m hoping that whoever it is, they get ID’d,” his sister, Keishia Mouse, told the station.
‘Vanished into the night’
When Glass, a member of the United Keetoowah Band, didn’t come home in December, authorities and local residents started looking for him.
He “vanished into the night,” leaving his mother and father with “no answers,” a cousin, Emma Sanders, said in a Facebook post.
“My aunt and uncle, they aren’t eating well, not sleeping,” she said. “(They’re) just asking for the truth, they just want Trey back home.”
Glass was with two friends the night he went missing — friends he had been arguing with days earlier, Sanders told investigators in an interview, according to KNSF.
The search continued for several months, but there was little sign of Glass besides his phone, which was found “on a back road north of the ranch,” his family wrote in the Gofundme.
Searchers had combed the area previously but hadn’t spotted the remains, family told KOKI.
“I’d drive that road where they found his phone and where everything supposedly happened, I always just felt (like) … something just don’t feel right here,” cousin Creighton Sanders said.
A body is found
The ranch is owned by Mike Wilkerson, former police chief for the town of Kansas, KNSF reported.
The well where the body was found once had a cement cap, but was broken by a horse, he told the station, adding that cattle guards were placed all around to keep his cows away.
But on April 5, he noticed one of the cattle guards had been moved, and calves were milling around the well. Wilkerson put the guard back in place and looked down the well to make sure no calves had fallen in, he told the station.
“I saw a body floating,” Wilkerson said. “He was wearing a Kansas High School football shirt and his shoes were floating upside down (in the well).”
The town of Kansas is a roughly 70-mile drive east from Tulsa.
Anyone with information about Glass’ disappearance is asked to contact the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office at 918-253-4531.
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