Human remains found in search for 2 people missing for 13 years

LOVE COUNTY, Okla. (KXII/Gray News) — Human remains were found during an extensive search operation this week in Oklahoma related to the disappearance of two people 13 years ago, officials announced Friday.

The Chickasaw Lighthorse Police Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit initiated the search operation on Feb. 17 in connection with the ongoing investigation of Molly Miller, a Chickasaw citizen, and Colt Haynes.

Miller, 17, and Haynes, 21, disappeared in the summer of 2013 after riding as passengers in a car chase.

The chase began when a car driven by James Con Nipp sped past officers in Wilson. Officers followed the car into Love County until they lost sight of it near Oswalt and Long Hollow Road.

The car crashed in the woods, and Nipp walked home. Authorities reported Miller and Haynes stayed behind, calling friends to come get them until their phones died the next morning.

They were never seen again.

Teams conducted searches on Feb. 18 in a previously unsearched location near Oswalt Road, Pike Road and Long Hollow Road. Police dogs, a Verizon truck and two charter buses joined the search, which reportedly included radar imaging equipment and drones.

During the search, two sets of human remains were discovered.

The remains are believed to have been found about a mile north of where the car Miller and Haynes were riding crashed, deep in the woods off Pike Road.

The FBI Evidence Response Team and the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner collected the remains to identify them and determine the cause of death.

The identities of the remains are unknown at this time, and it is not certain if they are related to the investigation into Miller and Haynes’s disappearances.

However, their family members have been notified and will continue to receive investigation updates as appropriate.

The investigation remains active.

In the years since Miller and Haynes’s disappearances, Nipp has been convicted in connection with the car chase but has told law enforcement that he did not know where Miller and Haynes were or what happened to them.