Daily Sun staff
The investigation into the disappearance of 36-year-old Ann Marie Kelley of rural Filley is continuing.
However, there is now the added complication that charges have been filed against her husband, William Kelley Jr., for unrelated offenses and an arrest warrant has been put out against Kelley herself in connection with some of her husband’s drug-related charges.
Kelley’s husband has had more than a dozen charges filed against him recently in Gage County Court, ranging from drug-related offenses to child sexual assault.
The contents of an affidavit for a search warrant performed on Kelley’s residence three miles east and two miles north of Filley late last week was made available to the public Tuesday.
The affidavit showed Gage County Sheriff’s Office deputies obtained such items as pornographic tapes, DVDs, CDs, books and magazines from Kelley’s home, as well as sexual stimulation devices, sexually explicit clothing, sex board games and bondage materials.
Gage County Attorney Randall Ritnour said while Kelley has had a number of criminal charges filed against him, the case of his missing wife has not reached the criminal stage.
“He is a person of interest in her wife’s disappearance,” Ritnour said. “But that remains a missing persons case until we actually find a body or her vehicle. Just being missing isn’t a crime.”
Meanwhile, the sheriff’s office late last week also issued an arrest warrant against Ann Marie Kelley on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of more than one pound of marijuana. The charges were related to information sheriff’s deputies received while investigating drug charges against her husband.
Ann Marie Kelley was reported missing on April 15. She was reportedly last seen about 8:20 a.m. that day at the SunMart supermarket in Beatrice driving her 1991 dark gray wood-paneled Plymouth Voyager minivan.
Authorities continue to ask anyone with information to call the sheriff’s office at 402-223-5221 or Beatrice Crime Stoppers at 402-228-4343.