In June, Emily’s sister Jess Strite claimed to Fox2Now that Emily had spent the most of her adult life “in and out of an abusive relationship.”
Her family also claims that she vanished while she was scheduled to see her three youngest children, who reside in Cahokia, Illinois, across the Missouri border with their father.
Charlyn McCalin, Strite’s mother, said that the morning before she vanished, she had a conversation with her daughter.
McCalin described their last exchange as follows: “We only talked for about a minute, and she said, ‘I’m going to go see my kids.'”
According to McCalin, Strite had been staying with a friend roughly thirty minutes away from her mother’s home.
Charlyn said that every time Strite visited her three kids, Steve Fults, the father of the kids, would either come get her or send someone else to do so.
