On April 28, 1984, Denice Haraway (24) disappeared from McAnally's convenience store, where she worked as a clerk. Her body was found in January of 1986 in a town called Gerty, 30 miles east of Ada. By then, Ward and Fontenot had been convicted of her murder for four months. When Haraway's remains were discovered, it became obvious that certain aspects of Ward and Fontenot's testimony didn't align with the certain facts of the murder . For example, in confessions, Ward and Fontenot claimed they kidnapped Haraway and took her west, not east. Neither mentioned shooting her, though she died by a single gunshot wound. Finally, Ward and Fontenot had differing accounts of what they did with the body — set it aflame or put it in the river. The body, however, did not show marks of fire.