OK man missing, presumed dead

Oklahoma investigators are continuing to piece together the events of Thursday evening that led to the disappearance of Ed Foreman, who has several loved ones in Iola and Allen County.
Foreman, 53, has been declared missing and presumed dead by the the Blaine County Sheriff’s Department in west-central Oklahoma.
“They have an idea of what happened,” said Michelle Diebolt of LaHarpe, Foreman’s girlfriend and mother of their nearly 3-month-old baby. “But we don’t know who did it, or why.”
Foreman, 53, was last heard from in a phone conversation with Diebolt as he headed home from work in rural Geary, Okla., at about 6:20 p.m. Thursday.
“I knew something was wrong when he didn’t answer my calls later that night,” Diebolt said. “We always call or text each other before we’d go to bed.”
The sense of dread deepened the next morning when Foreman failed to show for work.
“It was unusual enough that his boss drove 30 minutes to his house,” Diebolt said.
Seeing Foreman’s door locked and his vehicle missing, his boss left.
Diebolt and Foreman’s other family members began calling area hospitals and police departments, as she made the 5-plus hour drive to his home outside Geary, about 40 miles west of Oklahoma City.
Diebolt and Foreman’s landlord arrived at his home at about the same time. Evidence inside the house — she declined to be specific, other than to say Foreman apparently had been attacked.
“Based on the amount of blood, if it was his, there’s no way he could have survived,” she said.
Gary Clyden, Blaine County undersheriff, told the Register it appeared a single gunshot had been fired.
“It appeared that there some type of altercation, and that there was a homicide,” Clyden said.
Foreman’s vehicle, a black Hummer 2, remains missing.
Authorities are following several leads.
“They have some ideas,” Diebolt said. “Whether it will pan out, I don’t know. They still have to find him.”
Clyden encouraged anybody with information regarding Foreman’s disappearance to contact the Blaine County Sheriff’s Department at (580) 623-5111, or call the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investation.

FOREMAN, a pipeline inspector with Cleveland Integrities, met Diebolt while Foreman moved to the area about two years ago as part of the Enbridge Pipeline project.
“He was my boyfriend, my confidante, the father of Grayson,” she said. “We were married; we just didn’t have a paper saying so.”
She and Foreman had planned to eventually move in together.
In fact, they had originally intended to have Foreman moved out of his house by the end of February. Those plans were scuttled, however, when he took on a small inspection job in nearby Watonga.
“So we pushed it back a month,” Diebolt said. “There was so much we wanted to do.”
Thinking about their plans is emotionally draining.
“It comes and goes,” Diebolt said. “When I’m talking about the facts, I’m OK. It’s when I start thinking about the plans we had, that’s the hard part. Grayson is not going to know his dad.”
Scores of friends and family have reached out with words of support.
“A lot of people have questions,” she said. “I feel guilty because I haven’t been able to respond. I don’t want people to think I’m blowing them off. There’s a lot of things we still need to do.”