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Where is Oaklee Snow? Toddler last seen in Indianapolis missing after mother's arrest

In January, 2-year-old Oaklee Snow was taken from her father’s home in Oklahoma without his consent by her mother, Madison Marshall.

Marshall, 22, now sits in a North Carolina jail facing neglect charges, but Oaklee, who was last seen in Indianapolis, is nowhere to be found.

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“I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy,” said Zack Snow, Oaklee’s father, to an Oklahoma news station. “I’ve been on my phone day in, day out. I mean, you know, contacting and trying to find somebody that might know where she’s at.”

Oaklee Snow, 2, has blond hair, blue eyes and weighs about 35 pounds, according to a March 8 release from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. At the time Indianapolis police said Snow was last seen Jan. 19 in Cromwell, Oklahoma but was brought to Indianapolis by Marshall.

Oaklee Snow is described as weighing 35 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. IMPD Detectives say she was last seen on Thursday, January 19, 2023, in Cromwell, Oklahoma (Seminole County). It is believed she made her way to Indianapolis with her mother, Madison Marshall.
Oaklee Snow is described as weighing 35 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. IMPD Detectives say she was last seen on Thursday, January 19, 2023, in Cromwell, Oklahoma (Seminole County). It is believed she made her way to Indianapolis with her mother, Madison Marshall.

Marshall left with both Oaklee and Snow’s 7-month-old son, Coleton, traveling with her boyfriend Roan Waters, who has family in Indiana, according to court documents.

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Madison Marshall was arrested in North Carolina on neglect of a dependent charges. Oaklee has not been found despite multiple interviews between Marshall and authorities.

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Oaklee Snow
Oaklee Snow

On March 3, police in Colorado arrested Waters for an outstanding warrant on charges of child abuse and domestic assault and battery in the presence of a minor in Oklahoma, records state.

Waters told detectives he had traveled from Oklahoma with Marshall and her two children in his blue Dodge Durango. After reaching Indianapolis, they stayed at a "trap house" so he and Marshall could use drugs, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Waters said they made the decision to abandon 7-month-old Coleton at an Indianapolis residence and take Oaklee with them, records state.

During an interview with TV station KFOR, Seminole County investigator J.T. Palmer said that according to authorities in Indianapolis, witnesses saw Oaklee being carried out of what he was told was a “crack house" on Feb. 9.

“They described it as she was either asleep or unconscious. She wasn’t moving,” said Palmer. “She was wrapped in a blanket.”

Oaklee Snow
Oaklee Snow

Waters said a family member recovered Coleton from the Indianapolis house near Garfield Park and turned him over to the Indiana Department of Child Services, according to an affidavit.

Waters was unwilling to provide authorities where they could find Oaklee, records state.

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