Missing From: Chocowinty, North Carolina
Missing since: March 22, 2007
Classification: Missing
Date Of Birth: 11/11/87
Age at disappearance: 19
Height: 5’6″
Weight: 190 lbs.
Hair Color: Red (Natural Brown)
Eye Color: Hazel (Wears glasses)
Caucasian Female
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Pierced left eyebrow, a scar 2″on upper inside left leg, small ‘reddish’ birthmark on right cheek below eye.
Details of Disappearance:
Wood disappeared from Chocowinty, North Carolina in March 2007. She was a Dean’s List student at Appalachian State University at the time, majoring in accounting. She went to visit her friend, Kelly Gaskins, in Texas for spring break. Gaskins was also from Chocowinty, but she and her boyfriend, Ervin Braxton Williams, left town the day after Christmas in 2006. The last time Gaskins’s family heard from her was when she called her mother from Texas on January 15. Wood called a friend from Texas on March 10 and said she and Gaskins were going to go to Cancun in Mexico. Her black 2003 Nissan Sentra with the North Carolina license plate number TTZ-6801 disappeared with her and hasn’t been recovered.
Kelly Gray Gaskins, 19, and Ervin Braxton Williams, 23, (pictured right) were with Wood when she disappeared. Both of them were initially wanted by the police. Gaskins was wanted for probation violation. Williams is still wanted for failure to appear in court to answer to charges of arson, burglary, cocaine and marijuana possession, and assault. Police now believe that Gaskins may also be in danger, and she is now considered a endangered missing person. Wood’s case remains unsolved.