An Indiana Story of Family Intrigue

My fiend Joel C called the stories I wrote in prison Indiana noir. He thought Hoosiers would like them. I did not. What I thought is we are still so caught up in the mythos of James Whitcomb Riley that my fellow Hoosiers would not like being reminded they are not genial, sentimental rustics. 

I call this an Indiana story: Affairs, kidnapping and court fraud named in missing person case. Mother disappears, child is taken out of state, adoption accomplished by fraudulent means, and father dies.

Another story, Delaware County authorities discuss arrest in nearly decade-old missing persons case

 The latest I have seen is this: 

Woman charged in connection with Mullis case surrenders 

Sheila L. York, 66 — who now lives in North Carolina — was charged in January, in Delaware Circuit Court 4, with kidnapping and obstruction of justice.

She was arrested Feb. 8 in North Carolina, but was later released after posting bond in that state.

According to Jeff Stanley, chief deputy of the Delaware County Sheriff's Department, York surrendered Wednesday at the Delaware County jail. She was booked in at the jail and then was again released after posting a $10,000 bond.

York is accused of kidnapping the daughter of Ashley Morris Mullis, a 27-year-old mother of three who was last seen by friends and family members in September 2013.

More:Woman charged with kidnapping released on bond in North Carolina

Mullis' youngest child, a daughter, was a baby when her mother disappeared.

The child's father was purportedly Sheila York's husband, Daniel. The child was with the Yorks in the wake of her mother's disappearnce.

Daniel York, described by investigators as a suspect in Mullis' disappearance, died in Florida in 2015.

Sheila York later adopted the child in Florida. According to local prosecutors, she provided authorities in that state with false information concerning Mullis and the missing woman's family while pursuing the adoption.

So whre is the mother? 

sch 2/27/23