MACOMB, OK – Makayla Fay Meave-Byers, a 30-year-old mother of six and teacher’s aide, was last seen on September 15, leaving her home in a white Chevrolet pick-up truck with tinted windows. According to Pottawatomie County Undersheriff Travis Dinwiddie, she was believed to be going on a date with an unidentified bald, bearded white man who was driving the vehicle.
In the days following her disappearance, Meave-Byers’ family joined investigators equipped with drones and search dogs in a desperate search for their loved one. Tragically, on Wednesday, a cousin of Meave-Byers discovered her body a few miles from her home. She was found wrapped in waterlogged pieces of old carpet, concealed in a nearly four-foot drainage culvert in a creek under a road in Macomb.
The medical examiner confirmed the body as Meave-Byers’ on Friday. The cause and approximate time of her death are yet to be determined. However, Undersheriff Dinwiddie has stated that her death is undoubtedly a case of foul play.
Meave-Byers, who worked at Macomb Public School, was a devoted mother to her four step-daughters and two adopted children. Her older sister, Andria Meave, described her as a “great mother” whose family was her world.
Investigators believe that Meave-Byers left her home voluntarily around 5:30 p.m. on the day that she disappeared. She was in an open relationship with her husband and had not been seen alive since she left for the possible date. The truck she was last seen in had an extended cab, but investigators do not have a license plate number. Her family, unable to contact her, reported her missing the next day.
The man she was supposedly meeting, described as a bald, bearded white man about 6 feet tall driving an older white pick-up truck, has yet to be located or identified.