'Someone Did This To Her:' Family Anxiously Awaits Medical Examiner's Ruling

Human remains were found over the weekend near the Kiamichi River in Choctaw County, a stone's throw from where a missing woman's car was found more than a year ago.

News 9's Lisa Monahan has been looking into the disappearance of Caitlyn Case for seven months and has more on the new developments.

A grisly discovery was made over the weekend near the town of Fort Towson, a discovery that brought out multiple law enforcement agencies.

Case vanished from southeastern Oklahoma while on a road trip in Aug. 2022 from Louisiana to Colorado. While it's too soon to know for sure if the remains found this weekend belonged to Caitlyn Case, her parents are fearing the worst. Caitlyn's father, Gordon, said that investigators notified them of the discovery and that it could be her.

"She didn't just dump her car into a river and then get out and walk off," Gordon Case said. "Someone did this to her."

Early in the investigation, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation believed Caitlyn was not driving her car when it traveled onto private property in Frogville, Okla., and crashed into trees overhanging the Kiamichi River. Investigators said then that it appeared someone was trying to hide the car.

It is not clear if investigators still support that theory a year later.

Gordon Case lost his daughter Caitlyn, he said, after she lost cell service driving the backroads of rural Texas on August 5, 2022. He said she needed directions—and never found her way again.

"You're talking to someone that you love, and you know, all of a sudden they're gone," he said.

The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office is working to identify these remains.

Family Of Missing Woman Caitlyn Case Fears Daughter's Remains Found In Southeast Oklahoma

The parents of missing Louisiana woman Caitlyn Case fear their daughter's remains were discovered Friday.

The OSBI, along with the Choctaw County Sheriff's Office, Hugo Police Department, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, and the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office responded to the area after a landowner discovered the remains.

Case's mother Peggy says she was notified by the lead agent that a landowner found remains in close proximity to where Caitlyn’s vehicle was disposed of in 2022.

“We’ve been in limbo forever, was she trafficked? Or is she still out there? We don’t know where she is – it is a horrible balance to live through every day,” Peggy explained ”Each day, it is where could she be?”

Peggy said the update came as a shock.

“To get that phone call out of nowhere from the lead investigator who has not spoken to us for nearly a year, we thought he must have a reason to believe it is her,” said Peggy.

OSBI Joins In Search For Missing Louisiana Woman

The OSBI said Caitlyn Rose Case, 33, was last heard from family members on August 5, 2022, as she was going from Louisiana to Colorado.

Authorities said Case's 2006 Black GMC Envoy with Louisiana plates was found near the Kiamichi River in rural Choctaw County.

The investigation found evidence Case stopped at multiple convenience stores in North Texas the days before her disappearance.

The OSBI said Case is 5-feet, 5-inches tall and140 pounds with brown hair and eyes. She was last seen wearing a black spaghetti strap top, light blue jeans, and red tennis shoes.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the OSBI at 800-522-8017.

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