UPDATE, Nov. 16, 10:38 a.m. — The New Berlin Police Department says Oberto died after his vehicle was found overturned in an Illinois creek.

Illinois State Police officials said they found the victim and the vehicle on Friday. The incident occurred around 3:40 p.m. on Nov. 15, as a result of a single-vehicle crash between eastbound I-90 and northbound I-294.

Oberto was pronounced dead at the scene.

The crash is currently under investigation by Illinois State Police.

New Berlin Police said Mr. Oberto’s family requests that their privacy be respected during this difficult time.

NEW BERLIN, Wis. (CBS 58) — It’s been more than 48 hours since a New Berlin father and his husband left an Illinois restaurant. He has not been seen or heard from since.

Forty-five-year-old Ben Oberto’s family still hopes he is okay, but they describe his disappearance as “surprising.”

His wife, Laura Leatherberry, said she knew immediately something was wrong.

Ben is a wine salesman. On Wednesday night, a customer in Illinois was checking in at his restaurant but did not return home.

His car was tolled a half hour south, and his phone went dead even further away.

“I miss my husband and I want him to be home,” Laura told us on Friday.

Much of Oberto’s disappearance doesn’t make sense to Laura.

The happy couple, who had been married for 11 years, had a 3-year-old son and were trying to have a new child.

Ben and Laura last spoke on the phone at around 6pm on Wednesday night. Ben and Laura told him their son would be home in a few hours, hopefully before 9pm.

Ben was at 1776 Restaurant in Crystal Lake, Illinois. He left at 8.56pm and left the car park at 9.02pm. He hasn’t been seen since.

The restaurant’s wine manager told us Ben was a friend and was “pretty emotionally broken at this point.”

Ben did not return Laura’s calls or texts the rest of Wednesday night.

“This was different. Just different. And I knew. I had a little panic at first,” he said.

24 minutes after leaving the restaurant, phone records show he called a colleague. And a minute after that, his iPASS was taken south to an Illinois toll near the city of Elgin, although it was not confirmed that Ben was in the car at the time.

The last time his phone rang was at 9:47 p.m. in Rosemont, Illinois.

Laura hasn’t slept much and is trying to take care of her sons and Ben’s older daughter. She said it was difficult to balance “the logistics of finding him, which is my number one priority, and then managing the emotions of two children.”

He and a team of friends and family did their best to examine phone and bank records.

“I’m going to grab as much as I can and hand it over to the police and ask them to take it to the finish line,” he explained.

Laura said police showed that Ben had never entered O’Hare airport or boarded any planes, and they checked all the businesses, hotels, morgues, and hospitals but found nothing.

All New Berlin police could tell us is that the case “is still under investigation and we are working with multiple different jurisdictions.”

Laura said, “I think they’re doing the best they can. I’d still like to move towards getting more support.”

He told us he still had some hope. “I think my hope was there yesterday. I have to. But as time goes on, it gets harder and harder for me.”

But on Wednesday night, when Ben put their son to bed before he disappeared, the boy suddenly asked him about heaven and what would happen to him if something happened to them.

“I said, ‘This isn’t going to happen, you don’t have to worry. There are so many people who love you, don’t worry,'” she said.

This was before Ben stopped responding.

Laura said: “And now I’m in a situation where I might have to tell him that his daddy went to heaven. Like, in two days. He’s three.”

The police are still looking for Ben’s car.

And right now, Laura is trying to get records of Ben’s text messages to see if anything was sent that would cause Ben not to go home from the restaurant.

“I want people to know how much he was loved. His family, his friends and the community coming together,” she said.

Next Sunday, Ben and Laura were planning a 10-day trip to Maine to see family for Thanksgiving.