April 28, 1984 — Ada resident Denice Haraway disappears from her night shift as a cashier at McAnally's gas station and convenience store. Witnesses in the parking lot — an older man and his nephew, who were stopping by to pick up change for a poker game — say they saw her being forced into a grey pickup truck by another man. An APB is put out.
May 1984 — A clerk at a store down the road, Karen Wise, tells police that she saw two suspicious men come into her store earlier the same night Haraway was abducted, and a newspaper publishes the composite sketches of the men based off of Wise's description. Rumours start swirling about a number of Ada men who resemble the sketches, including Billy Charley and Tommy Ward.