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October 13, 2006

Sight of Ford truck dashes hopes of searchers

By Liz McMahan



It was a late-model pickup that searchers could see on the sonar devices in their boats Thursday afternoon.

So they called in a diver and a huge wrecker and stood in the chilly evening air at Three Forks Landing, waiting and hoping.

They were hoping this was the pickup that has been at the center of a search since 26-year-old Stephen Adams went missing on Dec. 13, 2004, after taking a final exam at Northeastern State University.

“It’s a Ford,” one of the wrecker workers shouted from the water’s edge as the pickup was dragged toward the surface.

Those three words dashed the hopes of Tammy Watters and other volunteers with Texas EquuSearch who have been searching area lakes since Sunday in hopes of finding Adams and his truck.

“We’re hoping to give his father some peace,” Watters said.

Vicky Lyons, special agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, also was watching from the shore.

She has been assigned to the Adams case since his disappearance was first reported.

“We would just like to find him and get some leads on what happened to him,” Lyons said.

Adams’ pickup was a 1995 white GMC short bed.

Watters said she and the other searchers will sit down with Lyons and decide whether to continue searching.

Reach Liz McMahan at 684-2926 or lmcmahan@ muskogeephoenix.com.

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