GUILTY OH - Amber Owens, 23, Dayton, 21 October 2014

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is ramping up efforts to find a missing woman. Amber Owens, 23, was reported missing October 21 when she did not show up for work. Officers found her car on Arlene Avenue in Dayton Monday, but no sign of Owens. Owens has two young children who are being cared for by family members.

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"She left the house that morning to go buy diapers and milk for her children before taking them to the day care center," said her grandmother, Bette Roebuck. With no sign or call from Owens, her grandparents filed an official missing persons report on October 24...

According to the family, Owens, works at the Waffle House off National Road in Vandalia. She has a twin sister and three children under the age of 6...

It's unclear what store Owens may have gone to to buy diapers and milk. Or if she made it there.

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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The family of a missing woman is asking the public for help to bring a mother of three home safely. Amber Owens, 23, was last seen October 21st. Her twin sister, Alicia, said she was the last one to see her. “I woke up at 4:30 on Wednesday in the morning, aching everywhere,” said Alicia Owens. “I just knew something was wrong.” Alicia said her and Amber went to a party on Genessee Avenue the night of her disappearance. “I asked her if she wanted me to take her home,” said Owens. “She told me no. I hugged her, gave her twenty dollars, struck her hair, and told her to call me when she was on her way home.” Amber would call her sister less than an hour later while driving home. The next morning, Amber did not show up for her job at Waffle House.

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The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office just confirmed the identify of a woman’s body discovered Thursday afternoon.

They identified her as Amber Owens, the mother who’s been missing since October 21. The cause of death is currently undetermined pending further testing.

Owens was found on the side of the road in some brush in the area of Post Town Road and Shank Avenue in Trotwood.

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The family can't believe the amount of support from the community. Sheriff Phil Plummer dropped off around 100 gifts for Amber Owen's kids. He has been friends with the family for years and is hoping the act of kindness can help alleviate some of their grief...

Amber's grandmother was proud to say thanks to the community support Amber's funeral expenses have been paid off.

And the sheriff says they have a person of interest in the case.

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Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer on Friday did not release details about the person suspected of involvement in the homicide of Amber Owens, 23, whose decomposed body was found by Montgomery County road crews Dec. 4.

“We’re working it hard, we’re doing polygraphs on individuals,” said Plummer.

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Dominique C. Mays has been indicted for the murder of his wife, 23-year-old Amber Owens.

Owens' body was found Nov. 3 on Arlene Avenue in Dayton, about two weeks after she disappeared on Oct. 22. She had been reported missing after not showing up at work.

Mays, 23, of Dayton has been indicted on murder, involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, tampering with evidence gross abuse of a corpse and domestic violence charges.

He is being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1 million bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 28.

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A man sitting in jail accused of murdering his wife is now accused of raping another inmate.

A Montgomery County grand jury indicted Dominique Mays Monday on rape and kidnapping charges.

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"I personally did not want to go through the trial. It would have been so devastating with all the elements and details," said Bette Roebuck, who raised Owens from infancy.

The details that took Amber Owens' life will not be revealed after Mays took a plea deal with prosecutors, which avoided a trial. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, abduction and several other charges, including gross abuse of a corpse after her body was found along a Trotwood road two months after she disappeared.

"It's been very, very rough. I have cried many a day, missing her. My issue is how am I going to be able to tell Amber's little children that she left behind that their dad caused her demise," Roebuck told FOX 45's Natasha Williams.

Mays will spend the next 19 years in prison for his role in Owens' death.

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