Zoey Zane was the internet name of a Kansas College student trying to earn enough money to pay for school. She was only 18 years old when she disappeared on November 23rd, 2007. Last seen leaving an El Dorado bar with her accused killer, Israel Mireles. The child was never seen or heard from again.

Mireles is being charged with capital murder in the case and is also charges with counts of rape and another charge of aggravated criminal sodomy. If found guilty of the crimes, he could suffer the death penalty.

Sander was a student at Butler Community college where a close friend admitted that Sander kept her double life secret from everyone except a few very close friends.

After missing work at the italian restaurant where he worked, his employer went looking for Mireles at the motel where he was staying and found his motel room in complete disarray and large amounts of blood where found in the room. Police investigators also found that some of the bed clothes were missing.

A nationwide manhunt was launched to locate the missing Mireles and the young Miss Sanders. their investigation lead them to Texas where Mireles has family. They located a rental car he had been driving but did not find the body of Emily Sanders till six days after her initial disappearance. Her body was located about 50 miles to the east of El Dorado as police followed the route they believed that Mireles used on his way to pick up his 16 yhear old girlfriend Victoria Martens, before skipping town.

Police do not believe that Emily’s double life as Zoey Zane had anything to do with her being killed, one cannot help but wonder if their is some connection.

Mireles was eventually located in Mexico and extradited to the US in 2007. An attorney for Mireles could not be reached for comment.

Emily Sanders had recently signed a contract to do some additional nude work on the internet and informed her parents. Her boyfriend did not approve of her double life and left broke up with Sanders shortly thereafter.

Sander’s grandmother, Shirly Sander could not believe that her granddaughter had been involved in this kind of a double life. “We have never heard anythintg like this and truthfully, I don’t believe it”.