Oklahoma officials plan to examine Cheyenne Wolf's remains

newok.com
BY SONYA COLBERG
Published: August 21, 2009

Cheyenne Wolf’s remains — and other pieces of evidence in the case — may be examined by the state medical examiner today.

The girl’s body was exhumed from beneath the porch of her Bokchito, Oklahoma home and moved from state to state, prosecutors said. Abel and Denise Wolf, Cheyenne’s father and stepmother, are jailed in Bryan County where they are charged with unlawful removal of a body.
"The body and evidence are still sealed,” said Cherokee Ballard, spokeswoman for the state medical examiner’s office.

The evidence, gathered by an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent, arrived Wednesday at the medical examiner’s Oklahoma City office. Cheyenne’s body came back Tuesday from Oregon, where it has been since investigators discovered it on July 4.

A preliminary hearing for the Wolfs is scheduled Nov. 18.

Friends Mourn Cheyenne Wolf

July 16, 2009
kten.com

Able Wolf and his wife Denise are supposed to be in a Montana courtroom Thursday. Then, they'll either get sent back to Bryan County immediately, or after more paperwork is completed.

Of course, at the heart of this case, Able's 11-year-old daughter, Cheyenne, who authorities believe died at their Bokchito home more than a year ago. Her death was never reported, she was never even reported missing.

Kten's Vanessa Bolano spent the day where the family lived in Bokchito, and met with friends of Cheyenne Wolf and her older sister Sara Elizabeth to try and find out how an 11-year-old child could just vanish.

The quiet town of Bokchito has been turned upside down after allegations that a couple who moved from their house in august of 2008 may have killed their 11-year-old Cheyenne Wolf, buried her remains, and then moved her body cross country to Oregon and Montana.
Friends of the 11-year-old are in shock.

16-year-old Faith says, "I knew it was bad at home for them, but I didn't know it was that bad."
17-year-old Jennifer says, "I thought her step mom was crazy and that she seriously needed to get away."

12-year-old Charity says, "I didn't think she would turn up dead."

School officials say in January they received written notice from Cheyenne's parents that they were pulling her out of public school to home school her. At the time they had no reason to question that, but her older sister, 16-year-old Sara Elizabeth stayed in Rock Creek Schools until May of 2008 before the family moved. This reminds me of the disappearance of Adam Herrman from Towanda, Kansas. His 'mother' pulled him out of Derby schools to home school him. Never to be seen again...

Faith says, "The last day of school she came up to me and gave me a big hug and said I probably won't see you again."

But Sara Elizabeth's friend did hang on to one of Sara Elizabeth's poems where she describes death, and a lifeless body, and one particular excerpt reads "Maybe death will relieve her of the burdens, but maybe life is only the beginning of the end."

Friends of the two sisters say their priority now is making sure Sara Elizabeth is safe.

Those friends told us, they're still in contact with Sara Elizabeth. We're told she is in protective custody in Montana. We don't have any details on the other sister, Skylark.

When we dug into the family history on whether DHS had ever been called to the home, we were told that information could not be released unless the parents are actually charged with killing the child.

Vanessa Bolano, KTEN News.

Oklahoma Couple Held in Burial, Excavation of Girl

Wednesday, July 08, 2009
foxsnews.com

HELENA, Mont. — An Oklahoma couple has been arrested in Montana for investigation of burying a young girl then digging up her remains and moving the body from state to state for more than a year, authorities said Tuesday.

Abel Wolf, 35, and Denise Wolf, 40, were being held without bail in the Hill County jail in Havre after being charged in Oklahoma with unlawful removal of a body, Hill County Attorney Gina Dahl said.

The suspects are scheduled for a court appearance on Wednesday.

An autopsy will be done to determine the cause of death and whether the remains are those of Abel Wolf's 11-year-old daughter Cheyenne, said Jessica Brown, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Abel and Denise Wolf were arrested Thursday near Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation southwest of Havre. The arrests were first reported by the Havre Daily News.

Sharon Skyberg, a booking official at the Hill County jail, didn't know if the Wolfs had retained a lawyer. Dahl said the defendants likely will be appointed a public defender by the court if they haven't retained one privately.

Brown told The Associated Press that relatives had reported to Oklahoma police that Cheyenne Wolf was missing when her father and stepmother Denise moved to Montana and Oregon.
The investigation led police to discover the remains in a storage unit in the Milton-Freewater area of Oregon.

An affidavit filed by OSBI investigator David Houston said Abel Wolf told Houston the family was upset with Cheyenne in April 2008 because she would not eat dinner one night.

While Abel was outside smoking, he heard a thump but said Cheyenne seemed fine, the affidavit said. She was found dead the next day, according to the document.

"Abel Wolf put Cheyenne Wolf's body in a sleeping bag and then put her body into a large plastic tub," the affidavit said. That tub was then stored in a shed, buried under the deck and moved with the family in August 2008 to Havre, it said.

When Cheyenne's sister ran away in January and was placed in a hospital, the couple began to worry that word would get out about Cheyenne, so they moved her remains to a chicken coop on property owned by Denise Wolf's brother in Oregon, the affidavit said.

Denise Wolf later moved Cheyenne's body to a storage building in the Milton-Freewater, Ore., area, Houston said in his affidavit.

In court, the suspects will be given an opportunity to waive extradition, voluntarily surrender to Oklahoma law officers and be returned to that state for prosecution. Otherwise, Oklahoma will seek to have the defendants extradited to that state, Dahl said.

Read foxnews article here.