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Wednesday, July 16
Updated: July 17, 9:01 AM ET
 
Girlfriend: Phone bill shows two calls after June 12

Associated Press

DALLAS -- Missing Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy's cell phone was used to call a limousine driver in the New York area three days after he vanished last month, published reports say.

Dennehy's girlfriend, Jessica De La Rosa, told The Dallas Morning News in Thursday's editions that his phone bill shows that the one-minute call to the driver was one of two outgoing calls made from his phone after his disappearance June 12.

"One call was made to New York City and then two or three minutes later, another was made to a number in Waco," Daniel Okopnyi of Arlington, a friend of Dennehy's, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after talking with De La Rosa. "Those were the only calls made on that phone that day."

Okopnyi said De La Rosa attempted to call the phone numbers. "At one of the numbers, the person didn't speak a whole lot of English and couldn't tell her anything," Okopnyi said.

The limousine driver, who agreed to be identified only by her first name, Christina, told The Morning News she did not recall getting a call, was unaware of the Dennehy case and had not been contacted by Waco police.

"I don't know those kids ... Until today I don't know what happened with this," she said.

De La Rosa said the phone had been used only twice since June 15. She was unable to explain the New York call and would not discuss the second call, but said she was sharing the information with authorities investigating the disappearance of Dennehy, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound forward.

While the phone remains missing, Dennehy's account is still active, said his stepfather, Brian Brabazon of Carson City, Nev. He said he knew of no one in the New York area that his stepson knew or would have called.

Sgt. Ryan Holt, a Waco police spokesman, declined to comment.

Dennehy has not been seen since mid-June, and his 1996 Chevrolet Tahoe was found abandoned in a Virginia Beach, Va., parking lot June 25.

Meanwhile, a former Baylor basketball player reportedly was driving Dennehy's sport-utility vehicle about the time Dennehy was last seen.

Melissa Kethley, Carlton Dotson's estranged wife, said he was driving Dennehy's vehicle when he visited her in Sulphur Springs on the evening of June 12, her stepfather, Sulphur Springs Police Chief Jim Bayuk, told the Star-Telegram.

He said because the visit occurred before Dennehy was reported missing and Dotson often drove his vehicle, Kethley didn't think it was odd at the time. Kethley later told Waco police about the incident but is no longer talking to news reporters, he said.

Kethley has said that she and Dotson lived together in Waco but had problems, and she returned to Sulphur Springs in April, eight months after the couple married.

Dotson, who has left the Baylor team in Waco and returned last month to his family's home in Hurlock, Md., has been listed by police as "a person of interest" in the case but not as a suspect.

An unidentified informant told Delaware police Dotson told his cousin that he shot Dennehy in the head when the two argued while firing guns in the Waco area, according to a search warrant affidavit filed June 23 when Waco police were seeking to search Dennehy's computer.

Ryan Ruthart, who lives in Sulphur Springs, said Kethley told him that Dotson picked her up and took her to lunch in Dennehy's vehicle. He said she did not specify when the visit occurred but appeared "visibly shaken" when talking about it.

Waco police spokesman Steve Anderson declined to comment on Kethley's account.




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