A Middletown woman missing since Monday has been found safe in a Kentucky hotel, police told the Journal.

Detective David Swartzel received word about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday that Bonnie Vaughan was in Lexington, Ky.

“She had been having some problems,” Swartzel said.

Vaughan, 49, never arrived Monday to her job at LexisNexis in Miamisburg, just south of Dayton and about a 20-minute drive from her home.

“It’s very strange,” her son, David Glunt said Wednesday morning. “She seemed fine.”

Vaughan picked up her son last Friday in Oxford, where the 2012 Middletown High School graduate is a freshman. They spent the weekend together. Everything, he said, appeared “normal.” He said his mother never discussed leaving the area and was looking forward to celebrating his 19th birthday the next day.

The 49-year-old left her home on Stone Path Drive around 11 a.m. Monday, according to Middletown police.

Sally Cullers, one of Vaughan’s co-workers at LexisNexis and one of her best friends, called her several times Monday when she didn’t show up at work. Eventually, she became so concerned that she filed a missing persons report late Monday with the Middletown Division of Police.

Middletown police had subpoenaed Vaughan’s bank and cell phone records, hoping they would offer a clue to her whereabouts, according Sgt. David Birk.

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office and Springboro police officers had also been searching for Vaughan and her vehicle, a maroon 2010 Chevy Camaro.

Birk called Vaughan a “very professional businesswoman” who never missed work or was late. He said people who usually leave the area for a few days, usually notify their employers. Because Vaughan didn’t call work, he called that “a little concerning.”

Throughout Wednesday morning, Cullers said, employees contacted her about Vaughan’s disappearance.

“We all feel a little helpless,” she said. “None of it makes any sense.”

The timing of her disappearance added to the mystery. Vaughan was “extremely excited” about her son, her only child, coming home for spring break, Cullers said.