Addison ’Add’ Waddell, 56, a respected barrel horse trainer from Morris, Oklahoma, vanished after leaving for a planned family visit to North Carolina on June 24, 2018. His vehicle was found wrecked and abandoned in southern Okmulgee County, and a county search followed when he did not arrive at his destination.

Human remains found by a landowner near Gun Club Road and 330 Road on July 3, 2018, were later identified by the Medical Examiner as Waddell. The missing-person inquiry became a homicide investigation, and attention centered on 37-year-old Nacole Bain, described in reports as a friend and the last person reported to have seen him alive. Bain was arrested by the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office and, according to authorities, confessed to shooting and killing Waddell; she was held on a complaint of first-degree murder.

Waddell was remembered in reports as a kind, genuine competitor who was well known in the national barrel racing community. If anyone knew Waddell’s movements in late June 2018 or has information about his last known contacts, please come forward.