UPDATE, 8:45 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17: The husband of a Henrico, Va., woman who was found unharmed after her disappearance following a bizarre text has been charged with assault, police said.
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According to WTVR, Mark Ditto was charged with assault and taken into custody after his wife, Connie Ditto, was found Friday.
Mark Ditto spoke with reporters in jail, the Palm Beach Post wrote, saying the allegations are untrue and her daughters can back up his claim. “I’m totally floored. We as a family are very happy Connie was found unharmed. I’m very sad and sorry for her apparent health problems. I’m very disappointed by what she’s put her family through and all the people across the country who supported her search,” he said.
Ditto added the allegations came from an incident where his wife was drunk and he and her daughters attempted to keep the car keys from her.
UPDATE, 8:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14: A missing Virginia mother was found Friday and is safe at an undisclosed location, according to WTKR.
HENRICO, Va. — A Virginia mother is missing after she sent a strange text message to her husband Tuesday night that said she was on her way to get a head X-Ray, WTVR reports.
Mark Ditto, the husband of Connie Ditto, 41, said he spoke to his wife around 8 p.m. while she was at work and complained of head pains.
“She said she wasn’t feeling well and was going to a walk-in clinic,” Mark Ditto said to WTVR.
Connie checked into the Patient First clinic and texted Mark that she was going to the hospital for X-rays and not to come there. But police informed Mark that although his wife did check into the clinic, she left before her name was called.
After Mark’s final text with Connie her cell phone was turned off. Mark told police he went with Connie’s two children to Patient First and then to other hospitals to look for her. On Wednesday Mark drove around “for hidden places Connie may have crashed,” he said to WTVR.
Connie reportedly fell and hurt her head last week, and also has suffered from alcohol abuse and depression. Mark said he thinks Connie might have gone missing due to her injuries.
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“I fear she’s driven off somewhere, that she’s blacked out and gone,” Mark said to WTVR.
Connie was driving a dark blue 2013 Volkswagen Tiguan. She is a Hispanic female, 5-foot-2 and has shoulder-length dark brown hair and brown eyes, Mark told WTVR.
Henrico police ask anyone with more information on Connie to call 804-501-5000.