Although 26-year-old Kimberly Cooklin, who was reported missing in early November, contacted police to say she was OK, her sister is not convinced.

The facts just don't add up, said Michelle Wickenheiser, Cooklin's sister.

When Wickenheiser looked through Cooklin's apartment after realizing she was gone, she found a chicken defrosting for dinner in the sink, cash and change out, and her medication abandoned.

Since then, she's checked her sister's cell phone records and found the phone number of the man she was last seen with:Jerry Schmidt, a convicted felon who is wanted in McKenzie County on a petition for revocation of probation for a 2000 felonious restraint conviction.

She's not turning the information over to police, she said. The case has been closed.

Cooklin contacted police on Nov. 11 saying she was OK and did not want to be contacted further; since then, she's sent short text messages to Wickenheiser and has had brief conversations with their father, Wickenheiser said.

But no one knows exactly where she is.

Wickenheiser said she's dissatisfied that the investigation into her sister's disappearance was closed, saying that, ideally, her sister should have to go to a police station wherever she is to prove that she's OK.

"Still to this day, (the facts)don't add up,"Wickenheiser said. "She doesn't call me; the only thing Iget is an occasional text. There's something going on, because she won't tell us where she is."

Wickenheiser had hoped the effort to find her sister hadn't been so short-lived; but after Cooklin called police and said she was OK, the case had to be closed, police said.

- Crystal R. Reid