Rumors circulating around Beatrice that Ann Marie Kelley, a 36-year-old rural Filley woman missing since April 15, has been found are false, Gage County Attorney Randall Ritnour said Tuesday evening.
“There is nothing to report, and these rumors have no basis in fact,” Ritnour said in a telephone interview.
Ritnour said his office received a call Tuesday morning from KUTT Radio saying someone had contacted the station claiming Kelley had been found. A number of people also called the Gage County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday asking if Kelley had been found, but Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson said there was no truth to the reports.
“I wish we had found her,” Gustafson said.
Ritnour said Gustafson asked him about 6 p.m. Tuesday if the county should issue a press release saying Kelley remains missing and the search for her and her 1991 Plymouth Voyager minivan continues.
An official statement will likely be released some time Wednesday, Ritnour said.
One of the stories heard Tuesday was that Kelley and her van were found in the Holmesville quarry. Ritnour, however, said he heard nothing about that.

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