He’s a popular fraternity brother with a big heart the highly highly talented a natural leader he’s very dedicated when he wanted to do something he did it a lapse in judgment trips him up but he soon gets himself back on track he seemed like he was doing really well in
School he was keeping up with school work until day he heads to campus and never returns it’s as if when that bus pulled away he vanished a cryptic note is his only explanation said my family’s given me a lot of opportunities that I just didn’t take advantage of his puzzling secrets
Detectives and his loved ones that we think there’s somebody out there that can help us figure out what’s going on I don’t care why he left where he’s been I just want him to come home [Applause] [Applause] foreign Tuesday night April 19 2016. 18 year old College sophomore James Martin Roberts goes by Martin meets with friends at a favorite Appalachian State University Hangout the Klondike Cafe it was a pretty busy night um pretty usual for Klondike coming packed that you can still walk around but it’s pretty hard you’re probably
Gonna get your feed stuffed on or something Martin and his fraternity brother have come for the klondike’s Big Draw my group of friends we wanted to go to play trivia and so I texted Martin I was wondering if he was going to be there according to Martin’s friend Holly
He’s true to form that night he would always just say funny things and just he’d always be the guy that everybody wanted to hang out with I was just so mesmerized by Martin always like had such a huge crush on him that I didn’t even realize anything else is going on Son of parents who are divorced and estranged from each other Martin first enrolled at Appalachian State University in Boone North Carolina almost a year and a half earlier he was really sad on going to Appalachian State and when that acceptance came in he was really excited about it
Nestled in the foothills of the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains school’s Vibe is unique the laid-back atmosphere I think it suits him his very first semester he’d been invited to pledge a fraternity on campus how Kappa Epsilon known as teak for shoulders he knew the people there already and they
Were invited to the Frat parties and immediately he was selected I know that he’s someone who thrives when he’s around his friends he wanted an opportunity to make friends quickly and that was the best the best way to do it I think he liked the Brotherhood he had always played Sports
And had his team and the fraternity was kind of the same thing Kernersville North Carolina Martin was a natural athlete playing soccer playing baseball playing football he just he always loves sports as the brown-haired blue-eyed Dynamo got older he excelled on the soccer field he liked to compete he’d like to play he
Liked to play to win Martin was pure Hustle pure work and he did it calmly and quietly he could walk off the field and be relaxed comfortable fun loving respectful kind caring he’s got a big heart people would look up to him and it made him feel really good about himself in
High school he was voted captain of his soccer team yet by the time he graduated was ready for a change Martin was very very focused on something that interested him business finance things of that nature were something they thought he had an interest in academically Martin set his sights on
App States business school he was smart he was very dedicated when he wanted to do something he did it Wednesday night April 20th after Martin was at the Klondike Cafe his father John Roberts who lives two hours away and expecting a call from Martin we were making plans for the you
Know coming weeks and for the summer and for next semester we were talking about the classes he was in and the the grades that he had at that time two days earlier Martin told his dad he’d soon have his first paycheck from his new dishwashing job at the Daniel Boone Inn
He was going to call me back Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest and and talk about how much money he made but according to Martin’s friends and family his phone was his Achilles heel he was just a not a great like texting Communicator phone Communicator I feel
Like multiple times he always had a broken phone he refused to put it in a case ever would not put in a case so by the next day Martin’s father still hasn’t heard from his son he tries reaching him yet again with no lock seemed a little bit strange since he was so
Definite that he was going to call me back foreign that same morning Martin is actually at his apartment getting ready to start his day chat with his roommates over breakfast they all said that they saw him in passing on Thursday Martin tells them he’s heading to the library
Like a water bottle and he put it in his backpack he left probably about 10 30 that morning [Applause] around lunchtime Martin’s cousin who also attends App State runs into him on campus it was a complete chance meeting she had forgotten something for her class the two have barely seen each other this
Semester they walk together to the nearby Apple CART bus stop free bus service students and Boone residents use to get around town they had a conversation for 10 or 15 minutes and upbeat Martin tells her about his plans for next semester and that he’s on his way to his fraternity house now [Applause] He started walking down the street and she didn’t think anything of it this brief casual meeting will soon take on far greater significance than his cousin ever imagined there it really was some kind of coincidence if you believe in that kind of thing that they happened to
Meet up at that time at that place and it would be the last time that we’ve seen or heard from him at four o’clock that afternoon two of Martin’s close friends and frat brothers stopped by his apartment to see him Martin hey Martin man you okay the day before
He abruptly dropped out of their fraternity chat group he was a freshman pledged class leader of that group those people reached out to Martin wanted to know why but Martin’s not in his room and he’s no longer responding to the texts from his friends Friday morning Martin’s father it’s been landlord for the apartment complex I said are you going to go by there anytime today this morning I need to check on Martin the apartment manager started calling the roommates and saying hey can you go in his room see if he’s there
See if you can figure out what’s going on Martin’s roommate knocks on his closed door Martin and they didn’t know if he was in the room or gone Martin’s not inside but on his desk there’s a note reading it his roommate immediately realizes something is very wrong [Applause] Friday morning April 22nd 2016 a roommate of college sophomore Martin Roberts has made an alarming Discovery in his room foreign the roommate called me read me the note over the telephone I knew I had to get up there sap just dropped everything at work got home
As quick as I could got my wife Abby and we headed to Boone as fast as we could get there the roommate’s second call is to the Boone police department they contacted the police and said we need to report this y’all went missing Hi when detective Kevin Wilson arrives at the apartment he reads Martin’s letter the note is so personal Martin’s parents have made only parts of it public but it was a note that Martin left stating that he was leaving so I think it’s the folks that I won’t see and
He said my family’s given me a lot of opportunities that I just didn’t take advantage of he was disappointed at himself I don’t think he felt like a failure it’s really sad it didn’t really say where he was going or what he was doing he doesn’t say this is a suicide note
And I’m gonna hurt myself nor does it say this is not a suicide note and I’m gonna go away so when I saw it I thought this is not gonna be good um it’s gonna be a difficult case Martin has also left important possessions behind his laptop his iPad and his wallet
I think it could be seen as the ultimate withdrawal Boone police reach Martin’s house I left work went and got her and we went to Boone all the way up there I kept thinking he just went off with a couple of his friends and forgot to tell somebody he’s gonna turn up
According to Martin’s father and stepmother the 19 year old had expressed disappointment in himself before eight months earlier after a great freshman year Martin had just returned to Appalachian State as a sophomore his very first night back trouble he went up for the sole purpose of attending this fraternity party
He was a social drinker so I don’t I think he was addicted to alcohol in any sort of way he drank with his friends who unfortunately drank a lot he made the decision to drive after he had apparently too much to drink then 18 Martin pulled right out in front
Of App State campus police stopped him and then the driving while Martin was taken into custody that night I get a call from him I think it’s like 2 A.M 3 A.M maybe and he tells me that I need to come pick him up hello
Because he’s in jail and he got it at mui Martin’s girlfriend Kayla lived almost 100 miles away from Ab state I don’t know why he didn’t pick somebody closer I think that calling experience was definitely out of the question at that point he was nervous and scared and didn’t want to disappoint them
Kayla says she drove two hours to Boone that night to help Martin when I arrived he was already out as soon as I got there he threw money at me as in like gas money he was like I’m sorry you came all the way up here for nothing
Exhausted and emotional Kayla says they wound up fighting I was like I can’t do this I deserve a little bit better um someone who Himself in decisions that he makes Caleb that night Martin lost his driver’s license girlfriend friend 24 hours passed before Martin got up the courage to call his father and stepmother that’s what he told us he had got a DUI I’m home that the situation he was in was not good for
Him he needed some time away for it that same day they brought him back home to Kernersville North Carolina we first thought maybe he was just gonna come home for the weekend or maybe even I think I’m think I’m fraternity life Martin officially withdrew from App State
While home a friend of his family heard he was looking for work but I said well let me open up my store that semester so he’s gonna be one of my first haulers according to Rick Miller Martin thrived at his new job in the restaurant much
Like he had playing soccer so he’s a rare kid you see a kid that young that mature be able to handle business the consistency that he showed on the field is exactly what he showed when he started working for me Martin even put his business education to work to boost
The restaurant’s bottom line the job helped repair his bruised self-esteem Martin did you know exaggerate some but he said that rich wanted to grab him for management after Martin took a full semester off he returned to college in January of 2016. he was ready to get not to be living with us again
But according to his father Martin wanted to handle his education differently this time they was not living on campus in a dorm like he did his first year he was living in an apartment with three other fraternity Brothers he seemed like he was doing well in school he was keeping up with
School work I think he was glad to be back with his friend but we didn’t talk as much after he went back Now just later Martin’s family and friends have been blindsided by his sudden disappearance during the two-hour Drive calls Martin’s cousin who the App State campus she was the one that said we ran into each other yesterday as a matter of fact at Martin’s father’s request she rushes to Martin’s apartment
While talking with his roommates inconsistencies emerge they thought Martin was headed to the library Thursday morning isn’t where his cousin ran into him Martin told her he was headed to the house where his teeth fraternity Brothers hang out if he were to go to the tea house he would have made a right
And cross the street and the decals would be right up here but police find no evidence Martin arrived there were people that were at the house that day around that time and I said he didn’t come by today we didn’t see him at all trying to determine where Martin went
Active Wilson contacts the city’s Apple card bus service there is video on the apple cart transit buses we poured over video that night we were actually able after several hours to find him on video walking away [Applause] April 23rd 2016. college student Martin Roberts was reported missing 15 hours earlier by his roommates his cousin was the last person to see him see him as they parted at a campus bus stop now police have just spotted him on video taken by bus security cameras it’s
Kind of grainy but it’s clear enough to tell the dense Martin the front camera clearly shows him starting to walk away the side camera you can see him through the glass and then the back camera catches him as he’s walking away Martin’s on foot and heading toward a busy intersection
It’s right on the edge of Campus so the detective is hoping the video will reveal which direction he takes he’s on that video that last frame for approximately 17 seconds and he’s right at a street corner he looks One Direction and looks the other direction and then they don’t see him anymore
As if when that bus pulled away he vanished Hoping for leads on which way Martin headed Boone police tried to access his phone but without his passcode it sealed tight as it run but the unique thing that Apple products is if you haven’t opened your emails or phone calls or text messages they’ll actually or visit A lot of mistakes and missed phone calls investigators follow up on every missed call and text as a result the quickly spreads that Martin can’t be found it was just like the worst feeling you could ever have your heart just drops police begin scrutinizing Martin’s interactions before he went missing Thursday
Trying to understand his frame of mind A fraternity brother that 48 hours before Martin disappeared driven him to get a haircut [Applause] they actually took him to the bank because he had to go to the bank to withdraw when Martin returned according to his roommates he’d also bought groceries he had a small refrigerator in his
Bedroom and when we were there we could have been the food with him when he left Martin’s high school girlfriend Kayla tells police that in her case she’d grown concerned about Martin three days earlier from a high school chat group sent him a text she didn’t know that that very night Martin also withdrew from his fraternity chat group and then he started saying things that
Made me question if he was okay there was things like no one can help me at this point there’s nobody I can talk to the next day Martin went missing it’s unbelievably alarming but uh you know we don’t know we don’t know what’s going to happen until until it happens then
Boone police are told about a possible sighting of Martin just an hour and a half after he left his cousin at the bus stop we had a young lady come forward who stated that she had seen him walk in in an area not too far from town she knew who Martin was
I think she described he had like an unusual or a particular gate that hey I know that’s Martin Roberts Robert the exact location Flannery Fork Road between Winkler’s Creek and Payne Branch roads From there it’s possible Martin may have been headed to a nearby Recreation Area called Trout Lake it is a well visited area by college students it’s easy to get to and there’s water there there’s walking trails you can hike in the mountains there police learned that Martin has been to trial Lake before
Perhaps he packed some food for a hike and something happened to him here in the densely forested foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains day after Martin was reported missing North Carolina’s state highway patrol provides a specially equipped helicopter to nighttime search for Martin in the area of the sighting they have what’s called
A forward-looking infrared radar if you’re walking in an area or if there’s an animal in the area they give off a lot more heat in the surrounding ground if Martin’s somewhere in the woods the sensors would see him plain as day but infrared surge yields nothing as investigators piece together details
About Martin from his friends and family a pattern begins to emerge they discover he’d been selectively revealing or hiding details about himself for months before he went missing after coming back to college his friends started to notice that they were sometimes with that was with my cousin
Well but we talked to his cousin who only has one cousin in Boone and she says I haven’t seen him we don’t hang out together Martin also had something much bigger from his roommates and his mother and sister that he wasn’t even attending Appalachian State this semester
We thought he was back enrolled in Appalachian he was now enrolled in our local Community College who wanted to take classes online I think his four or five classes at the community college investigators get Martin’s academic records from the community college there’s another revelation he was doing fine he wasn’t feeling anything
But he just decided to stop going the it had been nearly a month since Martin had logged on to any online courses he was you know telling me about his grades and his classes and extra credit and things like that and he had quit going that’s not all Martin had been hiding we
Called the places that he was telling his family members he worked at and they said we have applications I was actually able to find applications to all the places he’s talking about but he never fire at the time I thought man he is he’s working himself to death you know now
I’m no different but he don’t wish I’d have known then but we didn’t know he was being mysterious or untruthful or hiding something from from just about everybody Martin’s mother and sister said he even lied to them about his DWI he told them he’d been ticketed while
Walking home he said that he was stopped by the police and for drunk and disorder disorder I said well you know um you learn your lesson listen at least driving but Martin was behind the wheel that night I was shocked I always thought we had the relationship that he could just talk
To me about anything it just seems like he was trying his best to give out this picture that everything’s okay I’m doing fine when in actuality he wasn’t doing fine at all [Applause] foreign Roberts has been missing from Boone North Carolina for five days in that time police have uncovered a trail of disengaging from his networks and his friends and and being so deceptive about things things very unusual it was not how he was everything that happened was pointing to his he was actually
Miserable and it wasn’t work tired it wasn’t school-tired burned out whatever he was just miserable or depressed or something Martin’s cryptic note now makes more sense to investigators they think he’d been telling people what he imagined they wanted to hear about him it seems to me that Martin was very much
Trying to keep up the facade that everyone was going was going for him in his note he alluded to being tired of that I’m tired of his life not living up to expectations But police have no idea what Martin’s intentions were they look for clues in his possessions starting with his wallet as a result of his DWI Martin no longer had a ballot driver’s license they take your driver’s license away from you physically his father says Martin did get a state issued ID card
It’s now gone his original ID was not in that room I wish it was somewhere else or on his person Martin didn’t take his bank card with him his parents had said you know he’s going to have a certain damage bank is through police check Martin’s banking history there were no large withdrawals or suspicious purchases but this before he went missing no more activity and still hasn’t been
Any activity at all this time Broome police also finds something unexpected Martin left behind depressive pills that Martin was not prescribed there were quite a few of them I don’t know of any time that he has been treated for depression it’s not something that we see being bought and sold between students here
Police are never able to determine how Martin got the antidepressants or why he had them in the first place five days after he went missing two more possible sightings of Martin are reported to police one near Trout Lake the other Winkler’s Creek Road bolstering the likelihood of
The original sighting hour and a half after he’d left the bus stop in that same general area around the same time frame and so for us that seem to haters check other modes of transportation Martin could have used to go in different directions the best we could
Tell he didn’t take a bus he didn’t take a cab he didn’t take yeah unless Martin hitched a ride he’s back to square one the theory he was traveling on foot he definitely had the ability to hike and he was very active had a lot of endurance and could do
Anything that he put his mind to but those who know Martin best question if he’d ever attempt anything more ambitious than a day hike he’s uh go outside and sweat for five minutes come inside and take a shower type person he just didn’t have a lot of experience
I hadn’t been camping five times in his life In the bus security video Martin certainly wasn’t dressed for a long journey yeah so tennis shoes and a Investigators consider the possibility Martin might have wandered into the hundreds of miles of wilderness surrounding Boone perhaps attempting to connect to the nearby Appalachian Trail we received a couple things that hey there was a kid out here definitely didn’t belong out here but it wasn’t him something completely different Martin’s Family suggests another
Possible destination we’ve always been Hamley we have [Applause] we have times a season to the beach a family favorite is Ocean Isle Beach North Carolina 280 miles from Boone it’s just outside Myrtle Beach it’s yeah definitely a beach kind of person if so Martin’s two distinctive tattoos might stand out there
On his left forearm he’s got an homage to Appalachian State it’s kind of a blended view of mountains which is definitely reflective of boom on his right rib cage Martin has a tattoo of a lyric from Bob Marley’s song Zion train don’t game the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver or gold over the next two months sightings of young men matching Martin’s description pop up along Coastal North and South Carolina but after investigation none turn out to be him [Applause] I’m into their investigation Boone police have followed numerous leads trying to lose at these time periods where we don’t know where Martin was police find no answers in Martin’s digital footprint extracted from his laptop I would say I went through 12 000 emails and actually read them and tried to
Figure out what was he doing As an investigative Hail Mary Boone’s chief of police appeals to the community for anything they may know about Martin when he was off the radar it’s almost an open letter to the public hey if you’ve got information about this good or bad or whatever here’s the chief’s office line
Call me the appeal elicits no responses I’ve been doing this job 20 plus years and I’ve never had any case where you put a fraction of this amount of work into it and you get nothing back after four months worth of dead ends detective Wilson receives an unexpected
Call from a coroner 350 miles away in Indiana investigating some unidentified human remains they had found from what I understood the lower portion of a leg the foot but it was in a shoe not just any shoe a gray New Balance sneaker the same kind of sneaker Martin was
Wearing when he went missing so that coroner said that you guys are the first thing that so I just called you would there be a reason he came here [Applause] Nineteen-year-old Martin Roberts has been missing for four months [Applause] Indiana has just recovered human remains that potentially could be his Boone’s detective Wilson quickly discovers the sneaker found in Indiana is a size and a half larger than what Martin wears yet there’s only one definitive way to know if it’s Martins We had actually done parents parental DNA testing father and birth mother to do DNA samples but the coroner said we’re going to send our stuff off and obviously if there’s a match you guys are going to get that neither one of them ended up In June of 2016 police investigate another potentially hard stuff we’re looking you know we’re looking for that with three reported sightings of Martin near Trout Lake immediately after he went missing police focus on that area and specifically in water those bodies of water you know it’s not
Uncommon for folks to use those as a main mechanism to commit suicide or to harm themselves extensive water searches are conducted of both trout lake and the nearby Boone Reservoir the North Carolina State Bureau Investigation they have a few dog teams of hrd dogs human remains detection most folks know cadaver dogs
The dogs are trained on the odor of human decomposition the gases are actually lighter than the water so they’re going to rise to the surface and so what we’re looking for when we’re doing the searches of the water is for the dogs to do exactly the
Same thing as they do on the ground is to alert us when they smell those gases their searches sonar technology and divers scan the bottoms of the lake and Reservoir afterward the dogs scour the land surrounding both bodies of water the searches yield nothing there was nothing no change of behavior
On the days that we searched for Martin in the water areas no animation nothing gave us any indication that there was anything there [Applause] Boone police Circle back to try to understand Martin’s Behavior and what he’d been silently struggling with before he went missing I did a search warrant to the college
Because they have a Counseling Center that offers free counseling to the students laws protecting patient confidentiality make mental health records difficult to access than for law enforcement did you have some type of mental illness happening did you have you had an addiction was he having problems with his sexuality or
You know some type of identity issue or or whatever we never saw any signs or never been any discussion or communication that he was having any issues with uh sexuality or gender identity and we’ve always told him if you have any problem you can tell us about it in
Our interviews with his friends which are our greatest source of information nobody can give us any information about any of that being a problem but Martin’s friends tell police they had noticed a marked change in him when he returned to school in January of 2016. he was less about always having fun and
Going and doing things with them there’d be times where he wanted to be alone I would have never known that he was struggling with anything Months passed and Boone police explore a host of theories for other places Martin could have gone they also enlist outside help to scrutinize his case we brought in experts in the field hand them the case File as seen two days and just let them just go through it with fresh eyes and
Try to point out anything that we didn’t do well enough or didn’t do it all or anything that they can come up with laughs Martin’s Family holds tight to the hope that investigators can find him they’re offering a reward for up to ten thousand dollars for information on Martin
There’s somebody out there that knows Martin’s father and stepmother called help find Martin Roberts visibility of their cherished missing son it’s also to try to communicate directly with Martin how much we love him and we miss him and we want him back we just want to know you’re okay nearly two years have passed since the
Day Martin disappeared leaving behind troubling questions I had to have no clue what it was impacted I just feel so bad I didn’t see it the one thing that we know for sure is we don’t know anything for sure somebody does in August of 2017 Martin would have turned 21. for his family
Pain of his absence is excruciating the plan had always been that Martin was going to walk me down after I got engaged I asked him he said yeah the day that I went and picked out my wedding dress he said he said I can’t wait for the wedding sis but after Martin disappeared
She had to decide if she would proceed and he wasn’t there we want to get him back home and be a part of the family again I don’t care why he left where he’s been I just want him to come home you have any information about James Martin Roberts or his disappearance
You can confidentially contact the Boone Police Department at 828 to 268 6900. or High Country Crime Stoppers at 828-268-6959 Stephanie is an independent bubbly nine-year-old who first cowboy boots to dresses we’d rather be out playing in the dirt with the trucks with the boys than in playing with dolls one night she goes bowling with friends never returns I remember him watching all of us kids I realized that man that
I saw could have been something more than just an unusual person it’s a nine-year-old girl she’d have ran away from home she’d be at Grandma’s house it’s a story that alters a small City forever October 11th we’re always bring back memories of Stephanie she will never be forgotten not for many of us
And left loved ones to face Decades of enduring pain timing my third child definitely after my best friend she’s still a part of my family she always will be [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] October 11 1993 chalice Idaho a rural city of just a thousand people tucked between two Scenic Mountain chains chains the closest town is an hour away tell us is very small it’s very remote so everybody knows everybody everybody watches out for everybody and everybody cares for everybody around 3 P.M nine-year-old Stephanie
Crane finishes school friends to the bowling alley just across the road we all walk to the Chalice Lanes bowling alley to do our elementary bowling league with all three games a lot of times we all ordered food and ate together Stephanie liked to be involved so I know she played soccer and bowling
Stephanie is definitely not a girl’s girl what okay because she was a tomboy been around with that time went fishing hunting Rock picking very outdoorsy [Applause] Her and I were we both raced kind of the same way we would rather be out playing in the dirt with the trucks with the boys than in playing with dolls and doing our hair and nails he has always made friends easily with boys as well as
Girls she seemed to be always bouncing around laughing she had this huge smile and she was just funny very outgoing she didn’t have enemies she didn’t dislike anybody she liked everybody she was fun to be around Stephanie’s father Ben works in the local mineral mines and also does taxidermy her mother Sandy is a homemaker they have three younger daughters ages two four and six Stephanie was close to her father than she was her mother because there was the younger babies coming along and I think Sandy was busy
With them her friends say that Stephanie has a unique relationship with her father he was always joking with each other playing around just happy in loving [Applause] And Stephanie the first grandchild of the family is especially close to her grandmother Hazel so study would come over and spend time with me because I was out working in the garden or the yard and she liked to be out she spent a lot of time Stephanie
Happily assumes the role of big sister to her three younger siblings she was always taking care of them always making sure they had whatever they needed I remember her back and her little sister around it was like she was our she was kind of our own and the nine-year-old loves the
Freedom she has to walk her bike anywhere in chalice we all rode bikes all over chalice and we rode everywhere in chalice you know the whole County it’s the rare kind of town where people don’t lock their doors children freely ride bicycles walk by themselves and play outside unaccompanied parents were
There A lot of times to pick us up you know some were Stephanie always walked home from the bowling alley like she walked home from school at 4 45 pm on October 11th Stephanie and her classmates are wrapping up their games for their after-school bowling league teammate’s mother Luanne Berry is there
Serving his scorekeeper for the kids the girls team which was Stephanie and her two friends were actually bowling and when they finished the parents came and got them where they left and we were the only ones left finishing bowling [Applause] on her way out Luanne sees Stephanie standing in the bowling alley parking
Lot I asked Stephanie are you going home and she lived just across the creek from the bowling alley and she said yes she was going home and so I got in my car and as I backed out I look in my rearview mirror and I see Stephanie and
There was a Footbridge that went across Grandma’s house Hazel’s as they’re pulling out of the parking lot Randy Bennett and her mother also see Stephanie outside the bowling alley but now she’s waiting to cross Highway 93 headed back towards the school I know my mom waiting for her to cross so my
Mom kind of stopped and just said ask Stephanie if she needs a ride while she headed back to school hey staff where you going you want a ride home no I forgot my backpack she said soccer field the school is a five minute walk away and then it’s 10 minutes back to
Stephanie’s home she is supposed to be there by 5 PM her grandmother Hazel lives right next door five o’clock passes with no sign of Stephanie Sandy mother called me about fancy said if the over to your house and I said no she’s not but I said just a minute
Maybe she’s out playing with the boys so I went out and checked with the boys and no they hadn’t seen Steph mother and grandmother he at least start to search for her and I got in the car and I went driving around looking and when it started
Getting dark I knew she had to be someplace because she wouldn’t be out playing around dark her family says anyone who knows Stephanie is aware that the one thing that always terrified her was the dark she was always asking can I stay the night with you and I’d say yes
As soon as it started getting dusk she wanted to go home she spent very few nights with us even when Stephanie was in her own home at night it couldn’t be dark in her bedroom we stayed the night at her house one night and uh we didn’t shut the lights off in her
Little bedroom I couldn’t figure out why and she didn’t say it her family wonders if Stephanie went home with a friend for a sleepover maybe to escape the commotion at her house with three younger siblings we decided that the best chance was that she went home with a friend I started calling
Those people to see you know if maybe she went home with somebody but Hazel’s phone calls and a drive around town with Sandy turn up nothing by 8 PM there’s still no news about Stephanie and her mother Sandy becomes extremely concerned Sandy crane Stephanie’s mother came into the
Sheriff’s office at about I believe it was quarter after 8 in to report that she could not find her nine-year-old daughter Stephanie then sent the one Deputy who was in the office with me to check the creek behind the bowling alley to see if she had fallen in
It appears that Stephanie isn’t at the creek though it’s difficult to know for certain in the dark Custer County search and rescue as well as the fire department townspeople also join the hunt for Stephanie so it’s probably about 50 of us at the time and we all walked where we were supposed
To walk and they came back met at bowling alley and they wanted us to extend the search into town knowing that time is of the essence search teams use every means available they use the Sheriff’s Office pickups in the search horses four-wheelers they searched on foot Custer County surgeon has he used
Ability to search from here to Salmon on the Salmon River but the teams find no sign of Stephanie we were supposed to report back to the Sheriff’s office at midnight and we did and the sheriff said that they were calling off the search with her close friend now inexplicably
Missing Brandy Bennett is haunted by her last image of Stephanie I waved to her when she was on the sidewalk headed back up to the elementary school and I waved goodbye to her and told her I would see her tomorrow at school foreign Stephanie crane didn’t come home after leaving Bowling practice in her hometown of Challis Idaho she’s been missing for 14 hours the last people to see Stephanie remember her saying she was heading back to school to get her backpack and then home as fast that Stephanie is missing the next morning her friend Brandy’s
Mother shares the upsetting news she’s like well they they can’t find Stephanie nobody’s seen Stephanie since yesterday at the bowling alley I didn’t know what to think Stephanie’s parents and other loved ones are stunned by our disappearance I found out the next morning this Stephanie had not returned and that’s when the questions
Just stormed in on me her grandmother was asking Stephanie with you you know is go somewhere else in the daylight local sheriff’s deputies fire department search and rescue and over 100 volunteers expand the hunt state and federal law enforcement also arrive in chalice to lend a hand
A photo of Stephanie and a description of what she was wearing is faxed out to Idaho State Police and all the county law enforcement agencies across the state we fine-toothed more of the area where we had walked the previous night bushes and Andy are you exciting near the school
Gets investigators attention a vehicle that residents don’t recognize is parked at the high school a couple hundred yards from Stephanie’s school we received numerous reports of a yellow pickup around the school people just thought it was suspicious town the size of challenge each other ‘s but this one wasn’t linked to any
Chalice parent when police go looking for the truck they hit a snag the truck that was spotted at the school was not there when the deputies arrived and nobody could provide a license plate while police try to locate the truck local chalice residents mobilize to spread the word about Stephanie’s disappearance
People formed what they called friends of Stephanie and they took Flyers of Stephanie and they stuffed them in envelopes to send mail them out Nationwide we sent Flyers all over the United States we would take 10 15 20 Flyers you know notice with her picture on it and
People would post them all over it where they lived in their Town an Idaho State Police search dog is brought in to retrace Stephanie’s possible movements he was by the bowling alley and going up to the high school and going down to Hazel’s and where Stephanie lived the
Dog picks up Stephanie’s scent but just yards from the bowling alley alley in the midst of the search efforts Stephanie’s friends and classmates say they try to resume their normal lives but nothing is as it was before she sat off to the left of me everyone
Went back to school that we were allowed to go to our desks but we weren’t allowed to touch Stephanie’s desk they kind of had some stuff around it and it was meant to stay as it was I’m sitting in class and Stephanie’s not there
And when a kid when one of us was sick everybody knew why we were sick or what we were doing so it was really abnormal four days after Stephanie went missing investigators interview the children who were with her the night she disappeared and several of them say they noticed
Something that concerned them I saw a suspicious person that I’ve never seen before in my life and he looked creepy according to the kids The Strangers seemed to be fixated on their bowling game I remember him watching all of us kids and I realized that me saw could have been something more
Than just an unusual person [Applause] jumping on the new lead is asked Stephanie’s friend Chase for more identifying details that’s when I started to explain everything to him that I could possibly think of that sketch artist to help reconstruct the suspicious man’s they would say did he have a round face
Did he have a oval face and you know he had a skinny face and then they wanted to know how high his cheekbones were and they would show me how they would draw them once I said yeah that looks a lot like him he printed it off and they put it up for
A wanted person investigators circulate the sketches Statewide but don’t get any hits they also speak with the owner of the bowling alley over the next 10 days no further information comes in to explain what could have happened to Stephanie even a fifty thousand dollar reward half raised by townspeople half from an
Anonymous donor produces no results Stephanie’s family continues to cope with the pain and fusion Fusion of her sudden disappearance a year on it and at first you know probably the first week I didn’t sleep at all and now why did I think that if I stayed awake something bad couldn’t happen to her
According to Friends Stephanie’s parents are heartbroken but trying to hold out some hope her father Ben becomes more reserved I remember him being more quiet not I was talking to him seeing one of their own vanish Into Thin Air people of chalice are now living in fear These small communities you think you’re safe and then you get that Whiplash of nothing safe anymore We were terrified all of us parents children we became very even more closed in than we are more protective say the Carefree days of children walking anywhere in chalice by themselves are over Tad was only in third grade and so I would deliver him to school in the
Morning by walking him to his classroom I would pick him up from his classroom I wouldn’t even trust anybody to walk into the school bus and when I would get there there would be 10 15 20 other parents picking their children up from the classroom Law enforcement continues canvassing door-to-door trying to determine if anyone saw anything suspicious the night Stephanie vanished strangers in the mysterious pickup truck parked at the high school still unidentified the investigator’s task is Complicated by the fact that Stephanie disappeared all month long hunters from other towns and States drive through Chalice on
Highway 93. the main road in and out of town that Stephanie was seen waiting to cross Hunters come from the cities from the south you know Idaho Falls and Pocatello and it was very crowded investigators have to contend with a frightening worst case scenario a transient Hunter could have come
Through town and quickly grabbed Stephanie from the side of the highway on October 15th four days after Stephanie went missing a tip comes in suggesting just that possibility on the night she vanished another unknown vehicle was seen in town a blue van parked on the shoulder of Highway 93
About a half mile from the bowling alley then just 45 minutes later there’s another sighting of a blue van 30 miles south of Dallas one of the reports because County Sheriff’s Office received from the clerk at the convenience door was the two men who were fighting [Applause] Four days after nine-year-old Stephanie crane disappeared authorities get a promising lead about a blue van that was seen in Challis Idaho with two men fighting nearby deputies try to find the blue van where it was last seen on Highway 75 southeast of Challis but by the time the officers
Got there the van was gone as far as Custer County sheriff’s deputies can tell the blue van is no longer in the Chalice area they discover that like the earlier sighting of the pickup truck no one wrote down the van’s license plate or its make or model and
There was no security video recorded over the next three months no further information comes into law enforcement composite sketch of the man in the bowling alley is still leading nowhere On September 27 1994 just a day before what would have been Stephanie’s 10th birthday the residents of chalice decide to Market with a symbolic gesture purple was her favorite color in remembrance of Stephanie the family and other townspeople have released purple bullies thank you Already reeling from the loss of Stephanie her family goes through even more upheaval in the years that follow in 1995 a year and a half after Stephanie vanished her parents Sandy and Ben decide to end their marriage they ended up spreading which I don’t think
Is unusual I think in tried to forget it or go on I think Sandy had a harder time In May 1995 Hazel’s daughter-in-law Sandy moves to Reno Nevada and suffers health issues I don’t think her life was good she ended up passing away from blood clots in her lungs Stephanie’s father Ben stays in chalice and raises their three daughters on his own according to her grandmother the crane
Family agonizes over the loss of Stephanie every day Hazel says her husband Earl Stephanie’s grandfather been frustrated at the complete lack of any answers in his granddaughter’s disappearance he was mad he was mad at whoever took her he was mad at the legal system because they
Didn’t find her he was mad at himself because he couldn’t solve it figure it out Hazel says she tries her best to continue some semblance of a normal life but it’s extremely difficult I don’t things you have to do at one point we had some friends down for dinner on
Friday evening and and everyone was laughing and joking around I had a meltdown I went outside got in the RV and sat down and bald and cried Stephanie’s family members say they feel that authorities have not kept them apprised of developments in the investigation in 1995 Idaho’s attorney general visits
The cranes in an attempt to address their concerns official message he brings them isn’t a welcome one of the things that we complained about was the fact that we didn’t know we weren’t being kept in the loop and the state’s attorney general said you know according to our office
There’s no proof there was a crime committed here I said you think she just vaporized we said yes there was a crime committed they said well maybe she ran away and I said no she didn’t run away she was a nine-year-old girl if she’d have ran away from home she’d be at Grandma’s
House and it’s not here cold for the front in early 1990 a huge lead they have a hunter named Keith hassock in custody for unlawful possession of Wildlife inspectors have found a cash pornography among his belongings some of it appearing to depict underage females what’s more they believe that hashcock
Was in the Chalice area four years earlier when Stephanie disappeared we knew that Mr hesscock was here on October 11th because he had shot a bighorn sheep up Morgan Creek in Custer County investigators also learned that hescock used to drive a pickup truck that was similar to The Mysterious yellow ones
Spotted at the high school after Stephanie disappeared he drove a little yellow pickup but we didn’t really have enough there wasn’t enough evidence to follow that but four years later police are unable to locate the yellow truck despite the discovery of the pornography and a possible link
To the truck a search of hescox residence turns up no evidence of Stephanie in the end deputies can’t connect him to her disappearance no new tips come into Custer County once again the case grows Stone Cold and there are more changes in the crane family’s life in 1998 five years after Stephanie
Disappeared her father Ben moves the whole family to Orcas Island Washington about 800 miles from Idaho Stephanie’s grandparents Hazel and Earl remain in chalice still hoping that she may someday come home I could see somebody maybe picking her up and telling her her mom and dad
Sold her or didn’t want her I think even a nine-year-old even though she’s older I think you could convince her of that over and maybe that’s just as I want to think that two more years pass with no further developments in the investigation And then in May 2000 almost seven years after Stephanie vanished there’s a stunning new lead from Nampa Idaho 200 miles east of chalice Sergeant miles received information an inmate in our day Detention Facility had information on Stephanie crane disappearance so Miles interviewed this inmate the inmate tells detectives that a female friend of
His had rented a room in a man’s apartment back in 1993 the Stephanie with me [Applause] went missing her she told him that neighbors heard disturbing sounds from a street-level window they had heard a girl crying and screaming in the basement nobody was ever allowed down there [Applause] In the seven years since nine-year-old Stephanie crane vanished law enforcement has had few productive leads by the year 2000 the crane case has become notorious throughout the state of Idaho when I say I’ve grown up in chalice you see if it wasn’t there a girl abducted from your town there was
It’s just a nationally known thing then in April of 2000 gold case suddenly suddenly County Sheriff’s Office 200 miles east of chalice family crankcase was considered a big case anytime you have a little girl that goes missing it it’s important to do in on it in our
Department they had a lot of a lot of work and a lot of follow-up on this information over the course of several months the tip comes from a Canyon County Prison inmate who tells officials about a woman who claims to know the man responsible for Stephanie’s disappearance detectives bring the woman in for
Questioning and she tells them that seven years earlier in 1993 she roomed with a man who had drifted between Idaho and Oregon when she lived with him in Nampa Idaho she found his behavior extremely suspicious that’s what we learned about this basement and there was no nobody allowed down there he wouldn’t
Let anybody down there and people heard a girl crying down there the roommate says neighbors believed someone was being held captive she says she asked The Drifter why he always kept the basement locked and his answer was troubling he said that it was his daughter was being punished for running away or
Something like that the woman tells deputies that when The Drifter was out of the apartment she went through his belongings and found several disturbing items including girls underwear frightened and confused she decided she needed to get away from The Drifter before something happened to her or her children seven years later investigators wonder
Whether a girl allegedly held in the basement could have been Stephanie crane this is the corner apartment number one where the Drifter was residing this is the window here where different individuals had said that they had heard a young girl screaming or crying in April 2000 armed with the woman’s
Account Canyon County detectives dig into the drifter’s background they discovered that 13 months before Stephanie vanished in November of 1992 he was arrested on a sex charge involving a minor he was charged at a time that he lived in Portland with abusing his daughter whose name authorities won’t release was
Convicted of sexual abuse in the third degree but never served time because of a plea bargain the allowed to move to Idaho the judge also ruled that any future contact with his daughter would have to be supervised in mid-april detectives track him down at his job when I first confronted this
Drifter he was working his basic common labor at a local business in Nampa and asked if he would be willing to come in for an interview the man agrees to submit to a polygraph and investigators ask him a series of pointed questions the or to the effect that you have
Anything to do with The Disappearance of Stephanie crane did you take Stephanie crane three questions along that nature in which he answered no and indicated that he was being extremely deceptive on his answers when he is told the polygraph results The Drifter becomes defensive he became kind of irate argumentative
You know trying to explain why his answers come up deceptive [Applause] a week later detectives obtain a search warrant for the drifter’s former apartment in Nampa they fully inspect the basement where seven years earlier neighbors said they heard a girl’s voice there was a couple mattresses in the basement
Some stains appeared to be blood stains which we cut out and labeled we also found the rope that had some fibers hairs in it detectives in the bloodstained mattress and rope samples we lab near Boise two months later the results come back blood findings are inconclusive forensics can’t determine if the blood
Is human or from an animal the hair sample is human but the state lab isn’t equipped to perform DNA testing on it because it doesn’t have the follicle attached they would have to have more evidence as far as being able to say well you know this was hair was Stephanie crane although
Investigators believe they have some evidence that The Drifter could be connected to Stephanie’s disappearance it’s not enough for an arrest so the mystery surrounding what happened to Stephanie lingers such an old case it’s hard to say if if anybody will ever be able to find out you know more time
Goes by the harder it gets a month later Idaho State Police and the FBI are back in chalice still looking for evidence that might implicate The Drifter they show a photo lineup to Tina Foster who was working at the bowling alley the night Stephanie disappeared when asked if she sees the
SE looking man described seven years earlier by Stephanie’s franchise Tina points to the photo of The Drifter [Applause] Says she’s not 100 certain with no positive identification or physical evidence like [Applause] in June 2002 the name of a man authorities questioned five years ago surfaces again Bonneville County sheriff’s deputies are in Hot Pursuit of Keith hescock the hunter who was arrested for poaching and possessing pornography of seemingly underage females now expected in a horrific sex crime he had
Kidnapped a little girl from Idaho Falls he had raped her he handcuffed her to the bed and he left and went to work he had told her that he had done this before and he killed the little girl she got a hold of the fire extinguisher pounded on the handcuffs until she got
Away four hours after his 14 year old victim escapes hesscock is Tracked Down by authorities at his house when Mr hesscock showed up back up from work the cops were waiting at his front door he took off they had a high-speed chase through Bonneville County ended up in Madison County
He got out he shot and killed the police dog shot the deputy in the leg and then shot himself [Applause] up here hesscock dies from the wound so authorities may never know if he had anything to do with Stephanie’s disappearance they say he remains a suspect in November 2003 Hazel suffers another
Major loss when her husband Earl dies for the next three years there are no new developments in the case until December 2006 when a stunning lead comes into law enforcement from the town of Thorn Creek Idaho 165 miles from Dallas police there are investigating a man’s suicide and they discovered that he left
Behind a note describing feelings of guilt that drove him to take his own life the note contains a name that’s new to investigators Kevin Mooney the friend had left a note saying he had to kill himself because he could not live with the secret that Kevin Mooney had told him
Told him that he had picked up a girl in chalice raped and killed her and he referred to her as Steph In December 2006 13 years after nine-year-old Stephanie crane vanished new and unusual lead suddenly surfaces a man in Thorn Creek 165 miles from chalice left a suicide he had kidnapped a girl named Steph in chalice killed her chalice law enforcement jumps on it the Sheriff’s Office received the
Information we called Idaho State Police and the FBI they discover that Kevin Mooney is a 42 year old who changes jobs frequently and has several criminal convictions for minor offenses Mr Mooney was contacted brought into the FBI office in Boise in a polygraph Mooney tells police he can’t remember
Being in Chalice on October 11 1993 sheriff’s deputies conduct a full search of his house take cadaver dogs around Mr Mooney’s property and they did not hit on anything Mooney tells investigators he doesn’t know why his friend would say he killed a girl when he passes his polygraph detectives
No longer consider him a person of interest the investigation is once again at a dead end on October 11 2012 19 years after Stephanie went missing the crane family experiences yet another tragedy 19 years from the day that we lost Stephanie we lost spin just massive heart attack Stephanie’s father Ben
Is 48 years old Hazel says that living through the loss of her first granddaughter forever changed the way her family treats one another never leave without her a hug and say it I love you even if it’s just on the phone You don’t leave each other mad you know because life’s short according to Hazel she has received some updates about investigation into Stephanie’s disappearance over the years but she understands why she wasn’t told about all the possible leads that came into the Sheriff’s Office we knew everything that came in that
Supposedly happened you would be up and down so much that you probably drive yourself crazy so I think they’re protecting you when they don’t tell you Linda dubiel who took the missing person report from Stephanie’s mother 24 years ago has never forgotten the young Carefree nine-year-old girl
I just want to know what happened to the without missing when I was on duty where is she why can’t we find her it seems like she just disappeared Into Thin Air yeah then in June 2016 the search for Stephanie heats up yet again Linda dubia finding a girl in his
Basement back in 1993. the Custer County Sheriff’s Office won’t disclose anything from those interviews because Stephanie’s case is an ongoing investigation detective Wayne Christie who interviewed The Drifter back in 2000 says he felt like he was on the verge of solving the case frustrating thing about this case is
This Drifter we were pretty convinced that he was involved in it but we came close but he just wouldn’t take that final step foreign Hazel says that she does her best to live in the present but there is one thing about Stephanie’s disappearance that she cannot shake I’ve fought for years that surely somebody saw something whether they didn’t realize they saw what they saw or they just didn’t want to come forth with it
After all this time with her being gone I would hope that if somebody had seen something they would come forward recent news stories about girls who were abducted and then escaped from their kidnappers decades later give some people in chalice hope when I saw this story of the Three kidnapped gals from Ohio
And then the story of jcornell of California every now and then I’ll think maybe she’s still alive Hazel says that after all these years still can’t imagine what happened to Stephanie on that October night I’m not even sure she’s dead and maybe that’s just because I want to think that
Her loved ones say that even 24 years after she disappeared Stephanie remains in their hearts October 11th for always bringing back memories of Stephanie fall you remember Stephanie it’s just never be forgotten you know not for many of us tied ate my third child Stephanie after my best friend
Best friend still a part of my family Showers will be progression software reveals what Stephanie crane would look like today at age 33 if you have any information about Stephanie Crane or disappearance you can confidentially contact the Custer County Sheriff’s Office at 208-879-2232 Allison Jackson Floyd disappeared on Sunday July 30th 2006. when a person disappears without a trace often the
Most critical information is hidden in their actions and words from the days before they vanished Allison’s last known whereabouts May hold the clues to what happened to her A 34 year old mother of two vanishes after a night out detective call me and says just want to let you know that you do what is missing detectives aren’t convinced she’s in danger all songs led to the likelihood that she had left the area on her own
Accord but her family finds this hard to Fathom my sister would have picked up the phone and said I’m okay leave me alone police Wonder Could a troubled marriage be connected to her disappearance the fact that the cell phone was turned off and that he was not actively searching for his wife did
Appear to be odd or is there a random killer on the loose you just can’t believe that one human being could do this to another [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Thank you June 2006 it’s another hot humid summer in Wilmington North Carolina while tourists filled the Charming southern town thirty-four-year-old Allison Jackson Foy is trying to get her life together she has been living in North Carolina with her two daughters and husband Mike for a year and a half after moving from
Their home on Long Island she had told me that Mike wasn’t doing well a job wise and that he would do a lot better if they moved down now more cool for what what Mike did and I said well you have to do what is best for you and the family
But as the youngest of four siblings in a close-knit family the move move hard on Allison in addition to leaving her extended family behind she is also parted with a place that’s always been a special refuge for her father’s Dance Studio she was totally involved in studio she loved to dance
She was very excellent in gymnastics in addition to tap Jazz and ballet Allison danced in her father’s studio for as long as I could remember I was just part of who she was We all lose danced and took lessons and then Allison progressed and became an assistant teacher then a regular teacher problems begin to she is fighting an urge to use prescription drugs and her marriage is failing she knew her marriage was in crisis and I know both of them were not
Happy with a volatile marriage the Foy household becomes uncomfortable for the children then Allison is hit with her most painful hardship yet loses custody of her oldest daughter Courtney who goes to live with her father Alison’s first husband I know good things were not happening in
The house there was a lot of fighting um I think Courtney might have been scared this is a big blow to Allison over the past year her children have been one of the only sources of joy in her life our kids are definitely a big part of her life
Um they they practically were her life when she became a mother that was you know huge for her I think Allison a lot of times in her life was always searching for something more and I think that being a mother kind of made her feel more complete after her oldest daughter moves out
Allison reaches a Breaking Point in late June she contacts her sister Lisa in New Jersey for guidance she said I need to be around family can I please come up and and visit you and I said yeah she said well I have another problem I have no car she said um my car
Broke down I have no way to get up there so I rented her car and she drove up with her daughter Jordan I spent a day or two with them we had a good an excellent visit we would always just hang out and talk have a glass of wine there were definite
Concerns she was worried financially and she had said to me things were not great in her marriage Allison tells her sister she cannot deal with the excessive fighting and is thinking about divorcing Mike that coming from a divorced home herself Allison knows the impact of Separation can have on a family
My parents got divorced when I was only two years old there was a lot of movement in my family and I always feel like she got the brunt of that but I also felt that as she got older and was kind of trying to seek out her own life
That a lot of times she blamed the situation she was in on her childhood Lisa encourages Allison to take control of her life I had tried to say to you know Now’s the Time in your life to really stand up for yourself and to do what you need to do
You know be an adult and take a stand and do what’s necessary to make your life right after a week of therapeutic talks with Lisa in New Jersey Allison attends A Farewell brunch with friends and family before driving back to North Carolina it was a great time we were laughing having
A good time but I gotta say I sensed that when it was time for her to go there were tears and I knew it was not easy Two weeks after Allison returns home Lisa receives a promising phone call from her sister she had just got a job as assistant manager of the Holiday Inn in Wilmington and she was ecstatic it was the happiest that I had heard for a long time she said I’m doing this you should see my
Office things are finally looking up for me Four days after starting her new job Alison decides to celebrate with her close friend Chris Williams he was someone that she had met in Wilmington who was really almost just The Confidant he’s an ex-marine and they just got along very well and he was Allison’s sounding board
On this night the two meet for a few drinks at their favorite hangout Junction Pub and billiards to Chris be the last time he would see you before she disappeared To OTS later Allison’s Father John is getting ready to go to work at his Long Island dance studio when he notices the blinking light on his answering machine when he hears the message it takes his breath away detective call May assist just want to let you know that you had to orders
Missing John is shocked and immediately calls the detective who left him the message he finds out Allison’s husband Mike reported her missing two days earlier when failed to come home from a local bar the detective told us all well maybe she had some problems with her
Husband and she decided to leave and go I said no she would never leave she would never leave her children coming up detectives discover a compelling clue that leads them to believe Alison is a walk away all songs led to the likelihood that she had uh left the air on her own Court 34 year old Allison Jackson Foy a mother of two is getting her life back on track instantly accepted a job as an assistant manager at a local hotel August 1st 2006 police call Allison’s father informing him that his daughter has been missing for two days Mike Allison’s husband has told police
That his wife never returned home after going to a local bar panicked her father reaches out to Allison’s older sister Lisa my phone rang and it was my dad and he’s like oh I’ve been trying to you know not call you because I thought things were going to change and I said what
Allison’s two sisters are on vacation in New Hampshire but make plans to meet the rest of the family Brothers Home in Delaware and then travel to North Carolina in the meantime they try to make sense of why Allison has been missing for two days and why Mike Allison’s husband has
Called the police department but not them Mike never called my father Mike never called me he definitely knew my phone number maybe he told the police department to call me because we didn’t have very good communicative things between myself and my Detectives learned that just a few days prior to Allison’s disappearance reports had been filed with police accusing her stealing money from two former employers if you have ever gone through financial difficulties yourself and you have a family that you’re trying to keep together I think desperate times sometimes school for desperate measures
And I think she really didn’t know what to do this convinces police that Allison has left of her own free will Detective Lee Odom would later be assigned to the investigation we knew at that point that she had warrants on her that she was having marital issues with her husband and all
Signs led to the likelihood that she had left the area on her own accord although they believe Allison is likely a walk away at least begin an investigation and talk to Chris Williams the last person to spend time with Allison at Junction Pub in Billiards on Sunday night they admit after work
Around 10 pm and we’re having drinks at some point Miss Foy wanted to leave Chris asks the bartender to call Allison a taxi at that point a person who Mr Williams says identified himself as a cab driver came in asked Mrs Foy he was the one who called the taxi and
She hugged Mr Williams and left the borrow police continue to question Chris but become convinced that he is not involved in Allison’s disappearance we put Allison Foy leaving approximately 15 to 30 minutes prior to Williams detectives turned to people at the bar for more information several interviews were done with the
Bar owners the people working that night as well as patrons at the bar no concrete information in reference to her whereabouts was was a was a police also check local cab companies logs but are unable to find any cabs going to the bar that night meanwhile Allison’s family continues to
Try and reach her on her cell phone they’re mystified when they learn from detectives that her husband Mike Mike saying to the police this is the most ridiculous thing ever how can he turn off the cell phone and we got the phone turned back on his answer was I can’t
Pay uh all that money to have a cell phone the fact that the cell phone was turned off and that he was not actively searching for his wife did appear to be odd police visit and he told because Allison is run off because of their turbulent marriage when they asked
Him where he was the night Allison went missing my says he was at home with their daughter none of his neighbors remember seeing him and believe to corroborate his story on Meanwhile investigators uncover some information that could prove helpful Allison was still driving the rental car her sister Lisa lease had rented for her to drive to New Jersey we weren’t aware that a rental car or a vehicle was involved with her at the time she went missing detectives went
Back to The Junction public and did locate that vehicle according to Chris Allison didn’t feel comfortable driving after drinking so she agreed to take the cab he called police searched the car hoping to shed light on Allison’s whereabouts inside the vehicle was a bottle of pills a rental agreement
And a pack of cigarettes the name of the pill bottle was not Allison Foy it came back to another person detectives track down the woman whose name is on the empty bottle of painkillers she doesn’t know how Allison obtained the pills we have looked into that personal several different occasions and
There’s nothing to lead us to believe that that person was involved in but their disappearance of Allison Ford laughs August 8 2006 it’s been nine days since Allison Jackson Foy was last seen and after several days her family arrives in Wilmington North Carolina they immediately begin searching then
All kind of tips started coming in oh I saw her here I remember my brother my sister and I and my dad standing on a corner with posters at two in the morning everybody just comes out of the bars at once we would go into areas that the police
Says we shouldn’t go but that somebody says well unless you baby she’s in these areas and all of us we just drove and drove and was all over the place meanwhile detectives receive a phone call from Allison’s boss at the Holiday Inn she has discovered Allison’s diary which suddenly his investigators access to
Allison’s inner thoughts she had several Pages problems with her husband Financial issues lots of personal issues so it kind of solidified a couple things in the minds of the investigators that she probably had just run off but that explanation doesn’t sit well with Allison’s family my sister would
Have picked up the phone and said I’m okay leave me alone I don’t want to be found right now at the very very least after searching for 10 long days Allison’s family is no closer to finding Allison than when they arrived heartbroken they return home to their
Jobs and their lives none of us felt great that we weren’t going to be in Wilmington and kind of be the eyes and the ears Lisa seeks help from the Q Center for missing adults to keep Allison’s story alive Center introduces her to a private investigator who the family hopes will
Breathe new life into the case coming up a new investigator reveals a surprising lead they were supposedly out in the parking lot speaking with Allison after she had left the company of Chris Williams After 10 days of searching Allison Jackson foy’s family is bereft she seemed happy with her new job went out drinking with a friend after work and is now nowhere to be found in Wilmington North Carolina they’ve returned to their homes in Long Island and New Jersey and in an effort
To draw national attention to the case they go to New York City on September 8th to stand in NBC’s Today Show crowd in hopes of getting some air time we’ve wrote a ton of t-shirts with Allison’s face on it a ton of posters we started saying can you guys mind putting this
Shirt on we’re trying you know this is my sister who’s missing from Wilmington North Carolina we you know we want to try to get her seen or whatever Lisa’s efforts don’t go unnoticed you’re looking for my sister Allison Jackson Foy she’s missing from Wilmington North Carolina Www.helpfindout.com two young kids call the police anyone yes please we were very lucky that that that happened at that time some of those people are going to go home and look at the website and be interested in the story and and you know keep Alison’s face in the media
While the family is busy gathering national attention in the New York area private investigator Mark Benson is working the case in North Carolina the bartenders some of the people that your regulars at the bar and here’s a rumor from a bar employee that Allison may have left Junction Pub
And billiards with three young tourists from the Raleigh Durham area there were supposedly three young ladies that had been partying at the pub most of the night and they were staying at one of the local beaches that they were supposedly out in the parking lot speaking with Allison after
She had left the company of Chris Williams since it didn’t seem like a lot of people knew what happened once she went out that door it seemed very important to find these three women who would have seen what happened beyond that door but after talking to more bar
Patrons and asking local media to spread the word no one can verify that the three female tourists were ever there or that they spoke with Allison on the night of July 30th Benson becomes skeptical that there is any Merit to the tip if she was really that flamboyant and out there in the
Parking lot yucking up with these girls it seems like Chris Williams of anybody in that club would have identified and been able to see that Allison was still importantly after two months police begin to believe that Allison may not have left of her own free will and detectives hone in on
The foy’s home with permission from Allison’s husband Mike they searched the house and four days later his truck on October 6th of 2006 the family residents of Mike and Allison Foy was searched with alternative light source looking for any signs of blood or anything along those lines that would
Throw a red flag up nothing of evidentiary value was obtained from the vehicle Mike’s vehicle or the family residents although nothing suspicious is uncovered at Allison’s Home Police still want to bring Mike in for a polygraph test after talking it over with a friend he refuses to take it
While police continue looking into Mike private investigator Mark Benson is busy chasing down other leads there were tips coming in constantly and and you gotta understand I think we had like a ten thousand dollar reward uh that was posted I mean on a flyer and these were posted all over town and
Every news article that was done four months after Allison went missing and intriguing tip catches we got information that there was somebody trying to activate a membership account one of the big box stores down in Atlanta Georgia area the identity they were trying to open up the account with was a former employer
Allison this is one of the same employers Alison Aletta use her former employer’s identity she is familiar with Atlanta as her daughter dance competitions in the area I think when that Cole came in I did get my hopes up The picture that they use for the membership cards they sent me a picture of this person and it it was not Alice it’s another blow for the family give up hope Allison’s Sister Lisa continues to make frequent visits to Wilmington often bringing along Allison’s childhood friend Peter Roach
Whatever we would go down to North Carolina we would stamp our money before we went um so anything we handed out anything we bought the website was on the money and it would just circulate around they also leave coasters that feature Allison’s missing persons website at Junction Pub and billiards we wanted
Just to make people aware of Allison’s case Allison and that the fact that she was missing and she was missing from um a place where these people you know go to their their own one of their own people one of their own friends one of the people in their community Good afternoon and welcome to the Blue Line radio show I am your host Mark Benson in the studio with me in addition to working as a private investigator Mark Benson has a weekly Radio Show in the Wilmington North Carolina area he uses that Forum to discuss crime in
The community and he is especially determined to tell listeners about Allison Jackson Foley what I wanted to try and do is reach out to the people in the pub they knew who she was they knew a lot about Allison but we weren’t getting a lot of information out of the
Patrons of the pub so what we were trying to do was trying to tap into that and say look if you know something please let us know then on September 9th 2007 Benson gets a curious email that could drastically change the investigation a Woman by the name of Susan iannoni
Wants to know why everyone at Junction Pub and billiards thinks her husband had something to do with Allison’s disappearance and of course this was absolute news to me we had ten thousand dollar reward posters all over the place and if everybody was talking about him had something to do with Allison’s
Disappearance why weren’t these people talking with the Wellington Police Department uh why weren’t these people calling the tip lines Benson immediately reaches out to this woman to get more details about her mysterious story what he finds out will rock the case to its core huge red flags Get more disappeared online at investigationdiscovery.com September 2007 and Allison Jackson Foy has been missing for more than a year Allison’s oldest daughter continues to live with her biological father in Georgia while her husband Mike continues to take care of the couple’s five-year-old daughter although he still does not participate
In searches for his wife police don’t believe he’s involved in her disappearance meanwhile private investigator Mark Benson has just received a bizarre email a Woman by the name of Susan iannoni wants to know why everyone at the pub where Allison was last seen thinks Susan’s husband killed Allison Jackson Foy
Benson hoping to clear her husband’s name what’s puzzling to Benson is the is this spent numerous hours in the junction pub at Billiards and has never even heard her husband’s name Tim iyanone that’s when susanani told me that her husband had been arrested by the Wilmington Police Department for
Kidnapping and sex offense of a street-walking process and then perhaps the most intriguing news of all surfaces Tim iyanone is a cab driver huge huge red flag uh you know here here it got quiet for the longest time we had no leads we had no substantial leads we
Really didn’t have anything to put anything together and here her husband was a cab driver Mark obviously reported back me anytime that anything was going on he marked had a really strong feeling that there was a connection the family Mark passes the tip along to the Wilmington Police Department
Detectives move quickly to develop what they believe is their first solid lead Mr ioni was in the pub virtually every night of the week you know professional capacity and otherwise uh he would often pick up fares from the pub and in his off time he would essentially hang out in the pub
Detectives are already familiar with ianoni and his dark past on 827 of 2007 Timothy iannoni was arrested and charged with first degree rape and uh kidnapping for assaulting Sonya Williams a uh known local prostitute she claims that he raped and beat her for a pretty good duration of time
He was able to escape later and notify the police I had known he was questioned about the Sonia Williams case listening for prostitution rate at the same time there’s used the opportunity to ask him if he had anything to do with The Disappearance of Allison Jackson Foy Mr
Noni advised he had no involvement and for his disappearance and didn’t even hardly know who she was I know he said he said he was at home with his wife at the time of Allison’s disappearance still looking for ties to the case police searched the records kept by the
Cab company where ianoni works got several boxes of records and physically went through them until I found the time card for I-90 on the night of July 29 2006. the time of Allison voice disappearance he had clocked out shortly after midnight that night although I had known he was off the
Clock police are not convinced this rules him out Mr ioni was at what they call a 24-hour driver he was more on call and always had his cab with him either at his residence or in close proximity to his location bartenders would often call iannoni on his personal cell phone to pick up
Theirs at the pub police check ianoni’s phone records we looked into that in relationship to that night the night of July 29 2006 into July 30th 2006 and were unable to find any records that would indicate that he received phone calls any of those persons when detectives are unable to play
Cyanone at the bar it’s a huge blow to the investigation meanwhile on November 4 007. ioni enters a plea agreement to address the kidnapping and assault charges filed by Sonia Williams at the time Miss Williams was a very bad drug addict and and prostitute and we were hunted her to come to court
Mr ioni did flee to a felony of crimes against nature and was also convicted of a misdemeanor of southern female the kidnapping charge is dropped and iononia is sentenced to 36 months probation hoping to mend his reputation he volunteers to come in for a polygraph test regarding Allison Jackson foy’s case When asked if he had anything to do with her disappearance he says no passes the test it looked as though Mr ioni was not our guy we have exhausted every possible lead that that went you know nowhere just dissolved foreign Almost two years since Allison’s disappearance detective Leo is enjoying a neighborhood cookout when his cell phone rings with ominous news detective Overton uh advice that he and other detectives were on scene off of Carolina Beach Road and had a body a skeleton minutes later the detective gets another disturbing call detective erberton
Called me back and advised that they had a another body I kind of got inquisitive and immediately got dressed and went to the scene could this be the news Allison’s family has been fearing I get a phone call I don’t know why you get upset I don’t get
Worried but it’s going to be all over the Press tomorrow they’ve recovered remains Yes Detective Lee Odom has received an alarming phone call two sets of remains found in a wooded area behind a local strip mall in Wilmington North Carolina he quickly drives to the scene he wonders if this could be a tragic ending to Allison Jackson foy’s case once there he learns that a pedestrian
Cutting through the woods discovered the two shallow Graves what’s disturbing is that the graves are located just three miles from Junction Pub and billiards but perhaps the most showing finding is what surrounds one set of remains Allison foyer was reported to be last seen in a pinkish red sweater
At the time the initial skeleton was located heart of the skeleton was encapsulated in a pinkish red sweater fitting the description we had for Voice last clothing if this is Alison’s sweater it now lies weathered and parts by leaves the torn fabric indicating over 20 stab wounds tells a harrowing story
After more than two years has Alison Jackson Foy finally been found several pieces of jewelry over located around near the body that jewelry was later identified as belonging to her although it will take DNA testing to confirm whether the remains are allicins investigators alert Allison’s extended family of the possibility
I’ll never forget this I was laying in bed on a Sunday night it was probably less pressed tomorrow they recovered remains police begin the process of making a preliminary identification of the second set of remains they believe they are those of a local woman named Angela Robin
She was down on her luck she was a Street walking known prostitute she had family but the family really didn’t keep taps with her they didn’t know where she was 24 7 like Allison’s family did if the two sets of remains do turn out to belong to Allison and Angela police
Are hard-pressed to find any connection between these two women apart from their final resting place we’ve spent several months trying to find any any kind of evidence or cooperating factors that the victims even knew each other uh at present time we still can’t connect the victims to ever even each other before
Allison’s family is now laughed with the long wait for the DNA results while police continue their Investment in June of 2008 I was able to track down a employee with the pirate stable restaurant which is located the employee stated that he on several occasions had seen a Port City Taxi van the witness reports seeing a man in close proximity to where the bodies were found
But he says it has been at least a year and he can’t recall exactly when he saw him he was asked to come to the Wilmington Police Department and sit down with a sketch artist uh which he did and a sketch was rendered of a white male wearing cap glasses and a mustache
The sketch in my opinion closely Timothy right down to the shape and style of the glasses that they witnessed described in the sketch there is another startling tie to Tim iyanone the two sets of remains were found roughly 100 yards from where iannoni allegedly attacked Sonia Williams
Everything was fitting fairly well to me um and that’s when the police department started to take a strong look at Tim now armed with enough probable cause police are able to obtain a search warrant for Tim iannoni’s current and former residences several unusual stains in the prior
Residence that just uh just enough to draw suspicion as to what they were samples from they all yielded negative results for blood Tim iannoni is brought in for questioning again I had nothing to do with it you got a twin um [Applause] police have reached a dead end and with
No concrete evidence is free to leave Foreign Months DNA results are finally complete Allison’s family receives the information they have been dreading since she disappeared more than two years earlier the remains found in the shallow grave are allisons it’s kind of that double-edged sword because at once it’s like wow we’re gonna have answers we’re gonna have resolution
We’re going to be able to bring Allison home you know I’m gonna have answers for Jordan Courtney about what happened to their mom you know she didn’t just leave them like people had said you know because her mom you know Allison may have been a lot of things but that was
Not one of them and um for me that was big that I could call my nieces and say um you know something very tragic and sad happened to your mom but the other side of it was you know you don’t want her to be dead she laid
There for all those years and wasn’t too far away from the restaurant that’s what my I I mean I can’t conceive that you understand it’s it’s um it’s just mind-boggling it’s and it’s and my I told my other kids because I’m gonna follow this through until we find it
Allison’s Sister Lisa travels to North Carolina with close friend Peter roach to pay to pay at Allison’s final resting place in the woods but just when they think their nightmare is over they make a gruesome discovery I was looking around and all of a sudden
Peter goes oh my gosh and I’m like what he goes and there were Bones on on the ground the Press had said that we were coming to town to pick up Allison’s remains you know they always kind of knew when I was there so you know as horrifying as it is
To have to go get my sister in these circumstances now we have to deal with this and it just turned everything upside down because it it seemed like a cruel trick all of the remains were believed to have already been removed by investigators Allison’s loved ones cannot grasp how
Additional bones could now be in the area they were later identified as belonging to Alison Ford the investigation into the the bones in that area led us nowhere we were unable to advise how or anything else about how those bones got there I mean it’s very sad but also you’re
Almost filled with anger because you just can’t believe that one human being can do this to another just you know my Throne to the ground like she’s a piece of trash just left for the animals to get out and it’s horrific it’s it’s horrific and something I hope no one you know you
Should never have to go through in your life December 2008 the police’s main suspect timayanoni and his wife Susan agreed to a sit-down interview with NBC’s Dateline are you a murderer no no did you kill Alice before no no did you kill Angel Laura no what do you thinking about those women I couldn’t speculate I don’t know what kind of mind could contemplate doing something like that so I mean it’s I had no idea of course I’m talking about execution While investigators have been confounded by the case for five years they will not give up hope that Allison’s killer will be brought to Justice it’s the most frustrating case I’ve ever been involved in and I’ve worked dozens dozens of murders uh until this case I had never felt the frustration that I
Feel now somebody killed those women somebody discarded those two women and there is somebody that is walking amongst us that is responsible for that crime and as far as I’m concerned the families and the citizens of this area deserve that person to be taken off the street Life will never be the same for Allison Jackson voice family they carry loss and sadness with them every day and I’m still dancing I mean if there isn’t a date I don’t think of her and that I just uh it’s it’s just mind-boggling that that this should happen
There is never closure and I I mean I don’t think you can ever shut the book on that mind I mean my life the life of my sister’s two daughters my family’s life is forever changed Margaret haddock and Mcenroe disappeared on Tuesday October 10th 2006. when a person disappears without a trace often
The most critical information is hidden in their actions and words from the days before they vanished Margaret Mcenroe’s last known whereabouts May hold the clues to what happened to her Margaret haddock and Mcenroe has always been a fighter when you met Margaret you never forgot her she’s a force to be reckoned with
As a volunteer firefighter she became a local hero when she saved a woman’s life at the risk of her own that was kind of Margaret she was firefighter she being a soldier she’s kind of like action but she is also known to have an explosive temper she’s a very strong
Will she bumped his with a lot of people one fall day the young mother three disappears without a trace the only thing that was missing from the house was a black Army duffel bag and approximately eleven thousand dollars in cash did Margaret leave to make a new life
Every way we went in the investigation kind of took us in a different direction or did her fighting Spirit goat someone into Foul Play I’m missing I sat down and I said something really bad happened laughs [Applause] [Applause] As 29 year old Margaret haddock and Mcenroe dances and pounds her way around the boxing ring she grimaces not only from the effort to keep hitting her instructor’s glove but from the pain that’s throbbing in her legs thank you she suffers from a chronic knee condition
She was supposed to have surgery on her knees in fact she was going to have it done the following week at only five feet two inches tall and less than 110 pounds Margaret is Tiny But incredibly strong an athlete and an army veteran Margaret has trained herself to stand up
And fight for what she believes in whether in a gym boxing ring or her everyday life her friend Lisa giacone remembers first meeting Margaret 13 years ago she’s a force to be reckoned with but in a good way or it was a top very tough firefighter you know in the
Army tank mechanic but that was the market that everybody saw I’ll never forget walking in her house and she’s sitting ouch you could you could smell that there’s a roast in the oven and she’s knitting and I’m like uh who’s this remember first recognizing the force of their new daughter’s personality they
Brought her home from Mississippi where they adopted her when she was seven weeks old as the plane was landing at Newark Airport she let out a yell and it was a long time before she stopped yelling she was a wonderful little girl but she
Had a mind of her own and she had a very quick strong volatile temper but she also deep down had a Had a Heart of Gold when she was five the family expanded the haddicans adopted three more daughters Margaret was the Tomboy of the group we got Christina and Adrian and
Then the next year we got Beth in so we went from one to four in a year Margaret was admitted to a gifted and talented program in Brooklyn but when she was seven the family moved to war in New Jersey and she lost interest in school she just didn’t quite adjust she
Was a free spirit she couldn’t sit still for more than a few minutes at a time she often sought Escape up a tree her love of school was such that I had to climb a tree to get her out of the tree bring it to school we all knew Margaret as
A kid fun kid um a lot of spunk Pizzazz a lot of troublesome youth but with the feisty and active Margaret first drew the attention of local cops in her early teens Margaret from the days when he was a 20 year old rookie my patrol car got egged on a Mischief
Like one Halloween many many years ago she was found walking in the area I could never prove that it was her but deep down inside I know it was Mark Margaret grew up to be a no-nonsense type of woman her strong will had a positive side that at one point made her
A hero in 1999 when she was 21 Margaret became a fully trained and qualified volunteer firefighter for the Washington Valley Fire Department one of only three female firefighters in the Warren area she gave it her all she didn’t care if it was a bull who was inside a building she was
Going in and she was a great firefighter the guys had no problem going in that fire with a woman they knew Margaret hadn’t covered and they covered her too When Hurricane Floyd struck that same year the woman swept from a bridge by a flooding stream Mordred actually was able to save one of the people by jumping into the river and tying the woman up with her suspenders were fired here and waiting there for several hours until she was pulled
Margaret never thought of that Margaret thought about saving people was married he received an award for Valor but her impetuous nature could also alienate people when her temper unraveled her Fury was Unleashed on friends and family Walker was not a person who would take any sass but she could give it she was
Also someone who could be mad at you when One Moment In Time and then give you his shirt off the next next we had problems we bombed heads we bumped heads with a lot of people though her closest friends and family except her temper as part of her nature
It wreaks havoc on other relationships it broke up her engagement to the father of her first child Sarah Margaret and the father of Sarah were very close to getting married and then there was a disagreement and that was that after September 11 Margaret left Sarah with her parents and enlisted in the
Army where she was trained as a tank mechanic she seemed productive and happy much better than we thought you know the discipline of boot camp we never thought you survive she survived and thrived she enjoyed it she seemed to find a little niche almost like the volunteer fire department in Washington Valley
She kind of found a hole in both places but after two years Margaret received a medical discharge and came home in 2004 she began living with another volunteer Fireman Tim Mcenroe the couple had a daughter Emily and when Margaret got pregnant again they got married Melissa was born prematurely in 2006 and
When she came home Margaret was very overprotective the baby was in the room with her if at all possible at all times but it was all about making sure that they as well Margaret is able to channel her fiery Spirit when it comes to being a mother baby Melissa is getting stronger and
Margaret has given a firefighting to stay home with her and her older sisters Emily 20 months and Sarah age nine On Columbus Day Afternoon Margaret visits her father the last time I saw Margaret I was at home she was antsy but it’s hard to tell normal to me with Nancy she asks him to take her to an orthopedic surgeon for a procedure on her knees the following week
She asked me if I would take her and bring her home and I said sure no problem call to her husband and begins angrily pacing the floor getting more and more worked up finally she hangs up on him and she said something to the effect of I’m gonna
Divorce my leaping husband she was very agitated Patrick Hannigan dismisses the Outburst as just a typical Spurt of Margaret’s temper early that evening Margaret’s mother Eileen gets a call from her daughter asking asking the children and stay at her parents house later she calls again no she wasn’t going to come that night
She’d be ill for the next day but then she didn’t make it the next day either the last time Eileen hadigan speaks to her daughter before she disappears Coming up Margaret’s temper gets a workout and police are called if she’s mad and she’s fighting with you she’s gonna scream she’s gonna yell she might strike you and I know that that was the kind of argument that they had had on Monday foreign The day after Margaret haddock and Mcenroe and her husband Tim have a vicious argument her mother Eileen is expecting her daughter to come by with her children for an indefinite stay but Margaret never calls or shows up on Tuesday at the time Eileen isn’t alarmed that she had calmed down and whatever
They had been arguing about it was over and everything was kind of back to normal it was not unusual for more to change her mind on something or or calm down if she was upset so that we had no real reason to think anything had happened what the Heinekens don’t know
Margaret and her husband Tim Mcenroe the previous afternoon had been a protracted one purging on violence Margaret was the type of person if she’s mad and she’s fighting with you she’s gonna yell she might strike you know that that was the kind of argument that they had had on Monday
The altercation was serious enough that Margaret’s cell phone was broken and Tim Mcenroe called police Margaret stalked off to her parents house furious with her husband [Applause] Margaret’s husband Tim Mcenroe had called our headquarters to report that he was involved in a verbal dispute dispute right um sometime in the early afternoon
Two of our officers responded to the scene The officers were met in the driveway by Mcenroe but discounted the fight as just a marital disagreement and said his wife had left to left Regional Patrol are unfiled on the incident Margaret’s friend Lisa says that later that Monday evening a very distressed Margaret calls her from the firehouse
She had told me about a fight that had happened at the house that she had walked out she wasn’t going to fight anymore I said well you know what it’s getting late I said go home I’m fine I’m just angry and she screaming and yelling on the phone The next morning Margaret calls Lisa again the phone rang it up with Margaret she gave me this wicked evil laugh and I said oh no what did you do according to Lisa Margaret announces that she has gone on strike for that morning she says her husband claims she does nothing all
Day so she decided to leave it to him to tend to the kids and take the two older ones to school and daycare Lisa isn’t surprised by her friend’s provocative actions and makes plans to go shopping with Margaret later that afternoon it was a few minutes before nine and she
Says gotta go I’m like why she was Tim just folded gotta go I’m like all right I’ll talk to you in a few she’s like talking about click and that was the last phone call that was the last time that anybody other than Margaret’s husband reports having any contact with her whatsoever That afternoon according to Margaret’s husband Tim he is at a landscaping job when he gets a call from her she tells them they’re out of baby formula and asks him to run out and get some and bring it home he does so arriving about 1 30. he quickly leaves again to run some
Errands when he returns around three o’clock the house feels strangely empty he calls for his wife but gets no response he looks in all the rooms and he found their youngest child alone in the crib no sign to Margaret when Lisa doesn’t hear from Margaret about shopping that afternoon she just
Thinks that Margaret got busy I honestly didn’t think anything of it figuring you know maybe the baby was fussy maybe she wasn’t feeling well there’s plans and when you have babies they change all the time The next day Lisa says she gets a call from Tim’s mother asking her if she has seen Margaret she tells Lisa that Margaret has apparently run off stunned and dismayed she asks Tim’s mother some key questions the phone was broken the day before and the argument that they had had that the
Car was there oh I saw which I don’t know but don’t tell Tim I called you why well Tim doesn’t want anybody to know I said Margaret’s gone it was just it was just so weird Lisa can’t believe Margaret would go off and leave the baby alone in the house
With no one to take care of her it didn’t make any sense you know if they called and said Margaret’s gone Melissa’s gone Emily’s gone Sarah’s gone I’d be like she’s got to cool off I didn’t believe that she walked off and left Melissa Melissa was an infant Margaret did not
Leave her house and leave this baby it isn’t until Thursday Tim Mcenroe police to report his wife missing 48 Hours have gone by no one knows where Margaret is or what they have happened coming up the search is on for the missing mom and theories about what happened to Margaret multiply either a
She took off and it wasn’t coming back or maybe she was a victim of Foul Play foreign Disappeared from her home on Tuesday October 10 2006. her husband Tim initially did not call police he stated that he had spoke to a couple friends in reference to her disappearance and they said well the police aren’t going to do anything for 24 hours anyway so wait to report her missing
We all know Margaret you know she has a habit of leaving for a day or two to cool down after an argument and then she will be back talk to me about it he says you know she’s got a cool off she’s left before it is true that Margaret has a history
Of going off to cool down dating from when she was a teenager at 15 she ran away from home after a fight with her parents she said all right I’ll leave and she left she was gone for about a week 10 days or so what she was doing
Was hitching rides up and down the East Coast for truckers one of the truck is coolest and let us know he had a and he brought it home When she was younger uh did she leave for a day or two before going into the army she left for an extended period of time but once she had her children we’ve never had any reports of her ever leaving them unattended after Tim Mcenroe reports her turn Thursday October 12th police don’t
Search for Margaret right away we accepted it as Maybe having known her for you know almost 20 years I assume that she’d be back in a couple days it has some problems with the fact it was reported to us a couple days later but as the weekend comes and goes
Without any word or sighting of Margaret you met that certain things don’t add up on Monday October 16th six days after Margaret disappeared Lieutenant Bobby Glenn opens an intensive investigation into the into the appearance detectives call Margaret’s mother Eileen to ask if her parents know where she is
At this point the haticans still have no idea their daughter is missing although Eileen has been trying to reach Margaret since Tuesday I didn’t get an answer on the cell phone and I called the house on Sunday and all the marker wasn’t there and I just
Said it’s pretty cool I got an okay And then one day the police called and that’s the first time we found out that she was missing we didn’t know No one so we found out from the police department it was very upsetting the wrist [Applause] when police asked to search his house to mag is cooperative he allowed a forensic search of his house he allowed forensic search of her computer but remember by the time we got
Back to the house to search was probably about five or six days when you start an investigation behind unfortunately you’re playing catch-up that’s not a place you really want to be despite the passage of time there are still signs of the fight between Margaret and her husband that took place
The day before she disappeared during that argument he alleges that her cell phone was broken there was a cell phone broken cell phone still in the garbage a lot of garbage in that in the can it seems like normally would have thrown it out Sergeant Louis de Mayo is an
Investigator with the Somerset County prosecutor his office was called into the investigation six days after Margaret haddock and Mcenroe went missing he says Tim Mcenroe told investigators that the phone wasn’t all Margaret threw at him he came up and started saying she threw a knife at me that kind of thing I
Thought it was kind of strange he left all the stuff laying around like he was waiting to explain it Mcenroe was asked why he hadn’t told the officers who responded to his domestic dispute call about the violence he doesn’t tell the responding officers that she threw a knife he doesn’t say
That he didn’t want to tell the responding officers that because he didn’t want Margaret to get in trouble investigators are often suspicious of the spouse of a missing person and the domestic dispute called the day before Margaret disappeared adds at the cerns in a case like this the husband or
Spouse has always looked at first a lot of things don’t add up on what he says I would like to answer really any probing questions about the case from everything that any of the investigators told me at the time he just didn’t seem upset enough it just
Didn’t seem that that urgency that you think would be with a with a baby in the house and other young children involved in a situation but there’s no record of any previous police visits to the home and Tim seems to believe his wife is up and left him
As days pass invest ORS are increasingly troubled than Margaret a devoted mother of three hasn’t at least gotten in touch with her family things just started to build on each other those were some of the first purses that just didn’t seem to to fit investigators noticed that most of
Margaret’s possessions are still in her home her broken cell phone credit cards and new car have all been left behind it didn’t appear that she really took anything and we went through her belongings one of the things that seemed to be missing was an Army duffel bag
That she had from her time in the military she needed knee braces those were still in the house didn’t appear that much of any type of clothing was missing Tim tells investigators his wife had threatened to kill herself during their argument the day before she disappeared other friends and family members say Margaret may have been struggling emotionally after the birth of Melissa officers speculate that a severe case of postpartum depression could have overwhelmed Margaret and caused her to
Take her own life we had received information from people that we interviewed from postpartum depression I had narrowed down search areas places that she had frequented when she grew up places that I was familiar with that I knew that she’d like to go [Applause] the searches begin on October 19th more than a week after Margaret disappeared they starred in areas around her home and expand over the next few days as hundreds of volunteers joined the search through Warren Township fine Margaret areas that we focused on was an abandoned Quarry located off of
Dockwatch Hollow Road which is uh in the area of her residence Terraria was Tom’s Tom’s an area that that she like it’s the same Brook she rescued a woman from during Hurricane Floyd seven years earlier Searchers find no trace of Margaret foreign As being a Candidate For Suicide just I don’t think she would ever kill herself investigators discount suicide in Margaret’s disappearance but they are still in the dark as to what did happen As the investigation progressed forward it seemed more that there was a possibility that either a she took off and wasn’t coming back or maybe she was a victim of Foul Play coming up police recover a potential clue to Margaret’s disappearance they showed Tim Mcenroe the shirt and he
Positively identified it as one of the belong to Margaret Get more disappeared online at investigationdiscovery.com Anakin Mcenroe disappears from her Warren New Jersey home leaving her infant daughter alone in her crib investigators have several theories about what may have happened to her one theory that Margaret simply walked out seems to be back up with some surprising information from her husband
Tim Mcenroe tells authorities that a large sum of cash in the thousands of dollars is missing from the house they believe she took the money that she took off on him he’s a landscaper they deal with cash strange that nothing else was missing but some money and a duffel bag
While police are suspicious of Margaret’s husband they have no evidence that he is responsible for her disappearance they delve into Margaret’s past when she was 18 Margaret hired a detective to locate her biological parents and met both of them decided to reconnect with them again but when investigators make contact her
Birth parents tell police they don’t know where she is and there are more puzzling aspects to the case investigators learn that Margaret may have may have another identity our birth name was Sherwood Haley and she would use that name for like things like Facebook or stuff where she didn’t want
People to know really that it was her police description of Margaret and the clothes her husband said she was wearing when he last saw her checked pajama pants an army sweatshirt and white Nikes it says she is possibly carrying a large black duffel bag and she might be going
By the name Sherwood on a bulletin as maybe an alias Detectives dig into Margaret’s relationships looking for anything suspicious they turn their attention to the father of her first child Sarah Margaret had been locked in a bitter custody dispute with him she won full custody of Sarah just days before she disappeared he was investigated and his time was accounted for that thing
David she goes missing so he’s been ruled out generally as anyone who may have any knowledge of her disappearance but police don’t believe a stranger abducted Margaret from her home there is no sign of a break-in and Margaret was clearly capable of protecting herself from an attack
Everybody says she’s a fighter fiery I don’t think she’s gonna go down there’s gonna be a brawl she’s she was a soldier firefighter she’s got a little baby there to protect [Applause] everybody did try to abduct her there would have been evidence of that person’s blood somewhere because nobody would be able to
Just quietly come and grab her Early on Thanksgiving morning five weeks after Margaret went missing there is another strange turn of events a cop on his way to work in a neighboring Township spies a white male acting suspiciously at the side of a road not far from Margaret’s home he believes he saw a suspicious male
Standing behind a guard rail it’s a dead zone so he could not make a phone call to our headquarters and report it later he notifies the Warren Police Department a dispatcher sends out a patrol Two officers searched the area and find an army t-shirt lying on the pavement those two officers then recovered that shirt then took it to the McNamara residence where they showed Tim Mcenroe the shirt and he positively identified it as being one of the t-shirts that belonged to Margaret
Submitted to the New Jersey State Police lab for evidence or any DNA or anything like that like that but nothing was ever found on it so that kind of went nowhere I did not have any hope that that was going to lead to anything that area was searched repeatedly
This t-shirt was found on the paved portion of the roadway there’s no way numerous Searchers police officers would have missed that t-shirt it didn’t look like it had been laying out very long didn’t make any sense why would somebody throw that out there unless it was a red herring or something
My personal opinion is that some investigators are stumped by now they have exhausted most Avenues supporting the theory that Margaret left on her own did she hook up with somebody from the Army did she just need to get away for a while did she go back to any sort of military
Life she had a lot of issues going on with her health with her knees he’s seeking different treatment and just one time by herself to do that so all those Avenues were covered We inject any type of credit cards that were issued to her for any activity which resulted in nothing and nothing we had checked Nationwide all databases for her name and also her birth name Sherwood Haley showed nothing All along investigators have also been considering the possibility of Foul Play I think every minute or day that went by more and more of a said to ourselves this isn’t right and started the question whether that wasn’t no some misdeed in this that led to her disappearance
Most of her friends and family are convinced that Margaret would never abandon her children they say motherhood changed her well it was a very good mother she cared tremendously for her children and just look and I I think she would be would be here if she could
We don’t believe in the slightest that she abandoned her children because I feel that Margaret being in being a child head that feeling of Abandonment and I’m quite sure she wouldn’t want her kids ever have that feeling she knew that anything she needed I would have taken
The baby her mom would have taken the baby she would have never walked off but then left in the house There is no evidence that Margaret was seeing someone on the side so police focused their attention on her strained relationship with her husband Margaret was a fiery kind of woman wasn’t actually afraid to throw a punch now and then or a kick we heard that the relationship between her and her husband
Became violent at different times they knew that they had their differences but I didn’t realize she said it on Monday that there was something more to it because all she kept repeating is I want a divorce I’m done I’m done I’m out of here I wonder divorced her friend Lisa confronts Margaret’s
Husband on the telephone with a scenario she imagines may have happened I was so frustrated and angry at that point I said to me no it’s him I can see it all he says what do you mean you’re fighting with her she’s still angry from the day before she’s screaming in your face
She’s probably kicking you you get so angry it happens I said you shove her so she hit her head what happened what do you do detectives noticed that Mcenroe keeps changing his story about the amount of cash he says went missing with his wife over time he ended up telling people
Different denominations of money that was taken I think one was six thousand nine thousand eleven thousand was the original we were never really able to prove that the money even existed or was missing from the house and to some investigators Mcenroe’s attitude toward his wife’s disappearance continues to
Seem strange he seemed a little agitated but not distraught he wasn’t you know running around oh my God where’s my wife or anything like that he doesn’t seem to be all that concerned with where she’s at I haven’t personally seen him upset he hasn’t reached out to the Warren
Police Department to provide us with any further information into her disappearance however one key element in Mcenroe’s story about his movement that day is confirmed police have a receipt showing he bought baby formula at the approximate time he told them the formula he brought home to his wife
The last time he says he saw her we do ever receive from baby formula go much more into that but um some of his his story does check out Mcenroe continues to tell police that he believes his wife has left voluntarily and that he has nothing to do with her going missing
On the one-year anniversary of Margaret’s disappearance family members hold a prayer service at their local Catholic Church in the church Memorial Garden is a statue of an Angel and an eternal flame the hadicans keep lit as a symbol of hope for her return but those hopes are fading closure is
Becoming more apparent to us than it’s going to be she’s a victim of Foul Play and that’s not something you want to entertain coming up with the investigation at a standstill local authorities reach out to the FBI and the case heats up again we figured let’s maybe get some fresh
Eyes on it see what happens Foreign [Applause] disappearance of young mother Margaret haddock and Mcenroe remains a mystery to investigators for four years occasional tips and sightings come in but lead nowhere some people thought that they saw her in Alaska some other people said they saw her at a shopping mall it’s kind of getting like Elvis
She’s seen all over the place but no words he knows she can’t be she was writing a golf cart from a distance swore that it was more in my heart even me even No way it could have been however I swore it was on it wasn’t but [Applause] thank you Margaret’s oldest daughter Sarah now 13 has been living with the haticans since her mother disappeared Sarah and her mother used to share birthday rituals frosting on each other’s faces happy traditions that are now only men
That’s not really coming out I think she misses someone who probably as much as she did when she disappeared the case frustrates law enforcement in 2011 after several years off the case Sergeant demaio comes back as a Cold Case Investigator he in the Somerset County prosecutor call in the FBI we
Figured let’s maybe get eyes on it and see what happens soon they come up with a new approach to prevent prospective Witnesses from comparing notes FBI agents accompanied by local investigators call on Tim Mcenroe and all the other principles in the case at exactly the same time
We didn’t want anybody jumping the gun so we had a time down to the minute they knocked on to Mcenroe’s door everybody else started interviewing their prospective person it was like a huge trap sprung at one time as a result Margaret’s husband Tim was named the person of interest
It was on the Internet by 12 30 that Tim was named a person of interest sigh of relief it was a about Tim Mcenroe was always a person of interest from the beginning but in talking with the agents from the FBI Warren PD and not our practice we
Decided there was it was time to name him as a person of interest in his wife’s disappearance over the years he’s just not been that Cooperative in the investigation both of Margaret’s parents and her friend Lisa have taken and passed polygraph tests but Tim Mcenroe has not agreed to take
One despite repeated requests for him to do so he’ll repeatedly turn us down we had set that up and even offered to pay for half declined that polygraph never had an excuse on why he won’t he just backs out of them at the same time agents are reinterviewing Mcenroe and others
Another ground search for Margaret is launched but nothing is found internship is 20 square miles we have over 100 miles of Road in it but there’s still some large chunks of land that are undeveloped a good portion of the town has been checked Tim Mcenroe has not been charged with any crime
It calls to be interviewed for breakfast program continues to maintain investigators say their new initiative has reopened a dialogue with Margaret’s husband we have been in contact again with Mcenroe on a more uh regular basis he hadn’t contacted the police department or prosecutor’s office for for quite some time but now he’s called
A few times so that’s been a plus it came out of bringing the FBI in members of the Warren Police Department have known Margaret since she was a teenager and socialized with her when she was a firefighter take a very personal interest in her case I hope that tomorrow Morgan walks
Through the door and tells everybody she’s okay deep down in my heart I don’t believe that’s going to happen I believe she is a victim of Foul Play I would hope that at some point minor remains the family Margaret would not have left them and just disappeared three little
Kids don’t have an answer as to where their mother went I can only imagine how they can be we have a luxury in our County that we don’t have these kind of things happen all the time so we have time to work on them so this case isn’t going to be put
Away we’re going to kind of trying to find her whatever that may bring Patrick and Eileen haddockens attend to their daughter’s Memorial and each year on the anniversary of her disappearance family and friends put up silver ribbons with Margaret’s picture on them in the hopes it might spark a lead that will help find her we hope somehow to not let
Her memory disappear we would love to be able to give her a Christian burial that would be important to us the loss of the best friend she used to talk to every day still haunts Lisa giacone they want a body to bury to put a headstone
So that Sarah as well as the other two girls know that Mommy didn’t leave I do not believe that Margaret walked away mommies don’t leave Joey Lynn off it disappeared on Thursday July 5th 2007. when a person disappears without a trace often the most critical information is hidden in their actions and words from the days before they vanished Joey Lynn office last known whereabouts May hold the clues to what happened to her often
Kids is struggling with her love life I don’t think she found somebody that could understand her she and her on and off again boyfriend try forming a family a lot about our relationship with one needed to be worked out but arguments continue and Joey holds a grudge she told me whenever she’s ready
To show come to me days pass without calls returned and the Mist deepens when tragedy strikes they said there has been an accident and that a body was found still hard to believe [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] in the early morning hours of June 2007 33 year old Joey Lynn offit and her boyfriend Alexis rushed to the hospital in DuBois Pennsylvania it’s a happy emergency though the couple is about to have a baby their second child together she liked the idea of being pregnant having another child together parenting
This new baby is a fresh chapter in their turbulent relationship s looking forward to moving forward in our relationship their first child is a year old girl and they each have another child from previous relationships so together they are building what they hope will be a large happy family
His mother says her daughter’s track record with relationships has been Rocky Joe is looking for acceptance and she was looking for love but when it came to relationships I don’t think that she found somebody that could understand her Joey was naive and easily fell in and out of love she was very trusting
Usually very trusting when she would meet someone it was oh I really like him and I think he likes me and we’ve been out to a couple of days and it might start getting serious but then the argument would start by but when Joey met Alexis in the phone I
Kind of liked him he seem to have a good relationship Joey told me about him that he was going to college he was studying psychology and uh very personable person easy to talk to in Joey Alexis felt he had found a strong partner for life see it was a good Christian girl
Someone that was settled and shared the same morals and values that I did A couple months after they met Joey her daughter moved in with Alexis she moved from Virginia to State College she was talking about going to Penn State University but Joey never attended Penn State or manage to hold on to a job which caused flare-ups between her and Alexis
Uh Alexis didn’t have a regular job money’s tight campers are short so I think they had their fair share of fights first child together because she would play right along with them and I was as good of the time as they did she was almost like a big kid herself
Although Joey was in her 30s her maturity level was stunted by what her mother considered a disability Joey was in a way handicapped mentally handicapped a psychologists had asked me how I thought Joey was in uh mental years uh since batch 16 and the psychologist said well you’re
Giving her more credit because I feel that she has the mentality of 18 year old I kind of figured if she had a problem but she ignored it it would go away and you know the spontaneous part over with later to do put something on the fun side instead of
Doing maybe what she should have been doing Joey started getting impatient and Restless with her life she began using Alexis’s computer chips online Alexis had done let me know that he had intercepted some emails on his computer that really really concerned him a I’ll be Joey’s State of Mind
One email exchange was with a man in California who was apparently looking for a model to photograph and told Joey she might have the look he wanted evidently she had sent him a picture of her and as much as I love my daughter my daughter does not have the uh
Figure for a model well that got us all kind of suspicious Goes back to the way I look at it in shooting pornography concerned about Joey’s stability and the Children’s Welfare Sherry applied for temporary custody without Joey’s knowledge in Fall 2006 Sherry broke the news to Joey sheriff’s deputies present needless to say it didn’t go well
She was so angry and so upset she spit and the deputy sheriff saw her and and handcuffed her and took her away and I found out that night that she was pregnant with her third child child at Alexis and Sherry’s urging Joey agreed to get counseling to address the
Behavior that led her into risky online interactions all straightened down and Joey and Alexis are talking about maybe getting married this time I started talking about trying to find her a place to live whether she married us or not Sherry Bon Jovi a modest house in the small central Pennsylvania Borough of
Sykesville surrounded by Amish Country and 30 minutes away from Alexis’s home in Clearfield she understood why I was doing this to give her and the kids a a one-spot permanent place mid-January 2007 Joey and her kids moved into their new home she loved she really fit in she was really doing good
But remember she’s scaring a baby on the morning of June 3rd 2007 Alexis and Joey make it to the hospital just before Alexis Berlin III is born their new son brings them closer to reconciliation I should have happy again once the baby was born the couple is still living separately
But they work together to raise their children I kept our daughter for longer periods I’d have her for a week at the Swap her back and forth I think that they wish one to make a family I mean they’ve already got the children I think that they wanted to see if they could
Work out their issues but Joey confines in her mother that she has some apprehensions about getting married to Alexis she was wondering if he may have had an all-tier motive it would give him an edge over getting the big children and he loves children no doubt in my
Mind so she was being a little bit more cautious than normal Alexis and Joey take a trip to visit Joey’s family in Maryland and Virginia she wanted my mom to see um the baby it was the first time I met most of her family outside of her immediate family although Joey is
Exhausted taking care of her newborn to her family Joey seems excited about the future you know we’ve set a date now You know we’re gonna wait because we’re gonna save money for this and that they had planned to get married a year later July 1st Joey and Alexis are about to drive back to Pennsylvania Sherry for a couple of weeks Sherry says goodbye goodbye Leon aware that this is the last
Time she’ll see her daughter before she disappears Coming up a disagreement threatens to derail Joey and Alexis’s improving relationship unless I really just hit a nerve [Applause] on Sunday July 1st 2007 Joey Lynn off it and her boyfriend Alexis Brolin drive home to central Pennsylvania after visiting Joey’s family in Virginia she had a good time on the truck she enjoyed sand Ley I guess it would have been a while since she had seen a lot of them
Most of Joey’s relatives got to meet the newest member of the family for the first time Joey’s one month old son Alexis III she liked attention so she got to show them off you know Joey left her oldest daughter in Virginia with her grandmother Sherry when they arrived back in Pennsylvania
Joey’s two-year-old daughter goes to stay with her father Alexis so Joey can focus on the newborn in her own new house Alexis was there off and on quite a bit trying to help her on Monday July 2nd Alexis has to spend the day working on a new website for his local internet business
So he can’t help Joey out she and her mother Sherry touch base on Monday Joey calls me on a telephone and she wants to talk to her her daughter and then in the course of our conversation Joey’s telling me I forgot to pack her earplugs she can’t take a
Bath or anything get her hair washed without her earplugs because she had ear surgery so Joey said I’ll get them in the right way The next day other Alexis helps Joey by doing some grocery shopping and more and mowing her overgrown lawn but later that night when Joey’s bathing their newborn tension erupts Alexis doesn’t like how Joey is dealing with the task tells herself she was a boss or her son
In the sink was dirty and I didn’t appreciate that I thought this thing should have been cleaned before she gave him a bath Alexis’s comment Sparks a disagreement she don’t take criticism too well even if someone don’t hear it has been too harsh you know even if it’s Monday to be helpful
Whenever we left it was not our typical parting hey [ __ ] is upset with me Alexis decides to go home aware that Joey’s cold shoulder means it might take her a while to get past his criticism Joey’s mother has seen has seen his behavior many times before in her own
Relationship with her daughter if we got into a spat or really into it where I was really after her she would shut down literally shut downward she wouldn’t talk to you you could not converse with her you couldn’t rationalize with her The Giver space and time and whenever she’s ready
She’ll come to me and discuss whatever the problem was on the 4th of July Alexis and Joey have plans to visit his grandmother and attend a local fireworks display Alexis calls Joey and leaves messages apologizing for their disagreement trying to make a makeup but Joey doesn’t respond I’ll surprise one should have answered
My calls so fair debt and I must have really just hit a nerve the next day Alexis calls Joey again and leaves another message expressing regret When he doesn’t hear back from her later in the day Alexis goes to Joey’s house and knocks on the door nobody answers Alexis just figures he’s being snubbed the first one it was because I criticized her Alexis doesn’t have keys to the house he can’t go inside to investigate further so he leaves
Start again which I think is understandable the same day Joey’s mother Sherry receives the earplugs Joey sent to her oldest daughter it’s dated two last second and I was surprised they got there so quick Closed in the package is a cheery letter from Joey making plans with her daughter for later that month but like Alexis earned I can’t let it go because the whole point was for Joey to get some rest and I thought you know what I’m not going to be calling her you know
A bugging her you know she’ll let her have some time on Friday after three days objected to the silent treatment Alexis calls Joey to apologize once more [Applause] Because it you know it doesn’t take so long for her to get through something And I didn’t really start getting worried until the Home Health agency called me and said about her missing her as a single unemployed mother Joey is entitled to state aid the baby’s home health nurse is part of that assistance the nurse tells Alexis she saw Joey’s
Car parked in front of the house and noticed mail piling up at the front door when she peeked into a window the nurse saw a child seat diaper bag and a handwritten note on the floor in the living room the nurse says she left her own note and went back to her office
Tells the nurse about the argument he and Joey had had several days earlier after he hangs up with the nurse he goes over the situation in his head thinks back to when he last said goodbye to Joey her Hood was the only shorter she wasn’t talking Alexis and Joey’s mom Sherry compare
Notes about Joey’s Behavior we were both getting very very concerned they think Joey might still be upset at Alexis but why wouldn’t she respond to the nurse and she isn’t even calling her oldest daughter who is visiting Sherry in Virginia Joey’s loved ones finally realize all the phone calls and notes aren’t reaching her well where in hell is she where is Joey [Applause] thank you 33 year old Joey has not been seen or heard from in three days not since she and her boyfriend Alexis Brolin had a disagreement Joey isn’t responding to his messages and she also missed a house call with her baby’s home health nurse Home Health
Agency called and said she missed her appointment and you know that was strange another odd thing is that Joey’s car is parked at her house but no one answers the front even her mother and oldest daughter in Virginia Alexis says he decided to stop by the house one more time
Saturday morning on his way to a family reunion Alexis drives past Joey’s house Her red car isn’t there the doors were locked banged on him and looked through the windows everything but uh Nobody was around the next day Sunday Alexis stops by again and Joey’s car is back he knocks on the door but nobody answers there’s still not a peep from inside the house he can’t even hear the baby crying I tried my cell phone call on her so I
Could hear the phone ringing in the Halls Alexis tells Joe’s mother about his last stop at the house by now she’s extremely worried but where in hell is she you know where is Joey despite of their concern neither Alexis nor Joey’s family thinks it’s time to call the police
She’s gone off the grid before and no one wants to overreact tends to withdraw and just you know won’t answer the phone won’t answer the door you know even if she knows that you know she’s in there like keep quiet and until she’s ready to I guess be around you again After waiting at Joey’s house for almost an hour Alexis decides to leave her another note again apologizing for their fight and asking her to call him for the next two days Alexis and Sherry’s repeated calls to Joey go unanswered the home health nurse also pays another fruitless visit
The situation has now become very distressing On the morning of July 11th and higher week has passed since Alexis saw his girlfriend Joey he and the home health nurse meet at Joey’s house to discuss a course of action and the Home Health agency recommend calling the police to have them you know find a way to get in the
House to Chuck on her and make sure everything was okay Alexis has been resisting this days not wanting to set off alarms unnecessarily but as he looks around is continuing to pile up at the front door and that inside the house nothing has moved and outside something else has happened
Joey’s red car is missing again Alexis is now convinced it’s time to get help but the police know something about Joey that Alexis apparently hasn’t heard coming up alarm Bells the whole floor underneath the front door was burning Yeah more disappeared online at investigationdiscovery.com [Applause] After waiting eight days for Joey Lynn offit to respond to his repeated calls visits and notes her boyfriend Alexis Brolin Jr decides to call police and report her missing and then the person I spoke to said an officer would be in touch with me shortly and whenever they called they
Asked if I could come down to the station foreign Pennsylvania State Police Trooper David Ray sits down with Alexis to go over the details of Joey’s disappearance it went through chronologically what he did prior to reporting her missing he said he saw the car there on occasions and other times the car was gone the
Last time he saw Joey off it was the Knight of the third after the argument after taking down Alexis’s information Trooper Ray has some news stirring news Alexis apparently hasn’t heard that Joey’s house had gone up in Flames earlier that day [Applause] when we advised him that the house was a fact on fire his uh next question was as we expected was Joey in the fire In the early morning hours of Thursday July 12th Joey’s next door neighbors awakened to a loud noise my wife not was asleep and she got up and hollered out the neighbor’s house is on Farm I picked up the phone dial 9-1-1 [Applause] at the Sykesville fire department volunteers scrambled they didn’t have to
Drive far about three blocks to reach the scene if Matt Zimmerman was one of the first to arrive at Joey’s house I noticed the uh Upper Floor was on fire it appeared at the first to be one room and I got out of my vehicle the neighbor
Was there he had told me that nobody was in the house that they were gone for three or four days the firefighters quickly gained access to the house the crew made their way up to the stairs and advanced into the bathroom the main room that was on fire and it was
Starting like they had a handle on it they didn’t I noticed the floor in the downstairs was burning which was kind of odd because all the fire was in the upstairs it appeared so when the crew got in the basement they realized that the whole floor underneath the
Front door was burning up the walls which it burned cleaned the second floor finally got the three alarm Blaze under control firefighters searched the house they did not find Joey but they did come across a disturbing clue possible evidence of the fire’s true origin they found a gas can
In an upstairs bedroom the whole thing of having two separate fires in the same house really so we tried not to disturb anything to preserve as much evidence as we could when we knew something wasn’t right we right away called in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania the fire marshal is a state police
Investigator upon arrival he started taking pictures there were still some stuff smoldering in the bathroom a couple of guys they wanted to know we could clean it out just to get rid of the smoke and that’s when they thought that they had found a a animal
A house pet of some sort in the bathtub so we went back in we took a look at it and as we were standing there the fire chief realized that the woman just had had a baby a few months earlier at 10 A.M July 12th the fire marshal
Called the nearby State Police Station to report the discovery of an infant’s body in the bathtub Alexis Brolin III was dead and more investigators were needed at what was now a crime scene at that time the death Alexis Brolin day he was reporting that Joey Lynn offit his girlfriend had been missing he
Gave no indication that he knew of any house being burnt or any child being fast forward to his meeting with police later that day and Alexis Brolin reacts to the terrible news his response was what you’d expect to see from him he immediately had some concern
Then we led into the fact that the infant child was found at the scene deceased he teared up legitimately concerned and uh distraught I don’t know if there’s any way to Still hard to believe you know Alexis says police polygraphed him and told him he did well he allowed us to assist us you know with basically everything meantime on that fateful day Joey’s mom and sister in Virginia have no idea what’s going on they get a surprise visit from local
Police who ask them to call authorities in Pennsylvania Sherry immediately calls them You know where’s my daughter he didn’t really answer but he did say how far away are you how quick can you get here and next thing we know he’s saying it’s a utmost emergency that you get here as fast as you can I panicked I see what the hell is
And the detectives were told not to tell me anything but they took it upon themselves against the orders and they said there has been an accident fire and dead a body was found driving as fast as they can Sherry and Loretta get to Joey’s house at about nine o’clock that evening
Where they meet with the taxes and um oh good they said we’re looking for do you know where she’d be and I said now I got the impression that they were implying Joey was somehow maybe responsible and I told them there is no way she always in trouble trust me she would
Have called me because Joey always did face the consequences Joey it wasn’t a coward I couldn’t imagine her Sutton fire to her own house because he loved her house little home and she was thrilled to have it she’s a protective mother and she plumped to her kids The Pennsylvania State Police eventually concluded the fire was caused by arson set in two spots the bathroom and the basement and using diesel or gas as an accelerant Infant’s remains are positively identified through DNA as Joey and Alexis’s newborn son Though the cause of death is undetermined believed the baby died before the fire began but one question lingers for Alexis could Joey have abandoned her baby set the fire to cover it up I think everybody assumed postpartum depression or something along those lines Alexis told us that she was having some
Issues with depression at the point where she was on a medication I love a pharmacist because not find anything Troopers canvassing Joey’s neighborhood try to pinpoint more accurately the last time she was seen by anyone her boyfriend Alexis broulin uh saw her last approximately midnight of July 3rd into the 4th
After that she was last seen by a neighbor that saw her walking up the sidewalk pushing a baby stroller they even recognized her she was passing by he tried to acknowledge her she didn’t acknowledge him back he thought it was odd that he that she didn’t acknowledge Him because they have spoke or
He didn’t pursue it anymore this sighting was on the afternoon of July 5th the witness did not recall seeing a baby in the stroller inside Joey’s house investigators find a computer but because the internet had been turned off for a month due to non-payment the hard drive offers nothing revealing
Detectives also find Joey’s purse and her driver’s license but no car keys a large package of raw hamburger meat on Joey’s kitchen table the most useful useful Clues yet [Applause] Through entomology at the maggots we were able to date back approximately when that hamburger put there [Applause] approximately July 3rd to July 5th around the time that Joey was last seen by Mr Brolin in the last time seen by a neighbor at the scene of the arson emergency
Workers found a letter that Alexis had left on Joey’s front door window the day before the fire it seemed to corroborate everything he told police about his attempts to find Alexis had left a printed note on the window for Joey ultimately telling her that if she’s not contact him or the nurse by
The next day he was going to call the police and report her as a missing person through our investigation we were able to corroborate that there were phone calls made by him to her house and we who did see him travel to the house and actually spoke to him about her
Next police turned their attention to finding Joey’s red Saturn Coupe important because that was Joey’s Only means of transportation through the interviews we were able to conclude that the car was last day of the house on July 12th at 3am in the morning which was uh very important because
The fire was reported at approximately 4 a.m that morning coming up State Police put out an APB for Joey’s car the person involved would have to have intimate knowledge foreign [Applause] office infant son was found dead in her burned-out house State Police executes search warrants on her bank account and phone line they find no activity after Joey was last seen she has no cell phone to track so Troopers scope out places her boyfriend Alexis Brolin thought she might seek Refuge thank you
He had said that she may have been running away from her problems because she may have taken off she was familiar with how the women’s shelters work the she has used those in the past that she may have gone to one of those but Natalie comes up empty so the police
Try tracking down anybody who knew the missing single mother when we found that Joey didn’t have a lot of contact with people on a constant level she tend to stay to herself didn’t make any friends in the area it was very difficult finding anyone who actually knew her at all
Since Joey went missing one of the most vexing aspects of the case involves the disappearances and reappearances of her car in fact it was gone so Joe is gone so it was very important to find that car find that car you find her three days after the fire comes the break
Police have been open for July 15th uh State College Police Department called us and advised us today on Joey’s car at the nitty Garden Apartments the Nittany garden apartment complex is no random location same complex that Joey moved into with Alexis Brolin shortly after they met in 2003.
At that point just to observe the vehicle and see who got in and out of the vehicle nobody did Mr got near it it was a very strange person involved would have had to have intimate knowledge of of that location the apartment home [ __ ] up his Bomb Dot
It was an area that we was both familiar with and an area that I was surprised that they would have found their car at we put hundreds and hundreds of Flyers out with her picture on almost on every door of that apartment complex no one reports seeing Joey but one
Resident comes forward to say he saw the red car in the same parking space as much as three days before it was discovered by police he believes he saw it on the 12th of July definitely saw it on July 13th the car’s movements before it got to the parking
Lot in State College are a mystery to investigators scour the vehicle for evidence but after spraying the interior with luminol no blood or bodily fluids that might indicate Foul Play are revealed we’re not of any comparable value there was nothing immediately located within the vehicle that would show
Who was the driver of the vehicle in fact Joey’s family and investigators questioned whether Joey could have been the driver at all Joey barely hit five foot one very petite very small size four and a half size five shoe the driver’s seat position was found back further than what a person of Joey
Office signature would be able to drive comfortably that doesn’t prove to us that Joey drove the car or did not drive the car we’re not sure still her family says they are certain Joey didn’t just drive the car here and walk off they pointed the way the car was parked
As proof that Joey could not have been the last person to drive it Joey was a lousy driver I mean lousy and I can picture her backing the car in number one and if she hadn’t backed it in it was so straight in between the lines she didn’t pay much attention to her surroundings she would have just swept the car in there and been done with it that was my sister
Who took her in this tiny little town that my sister felt safe to live in because of the environment because it was a small tiny and Elvis country for investigators Joey’s trail goes completely cold somewhere between her house and her car at the Nittany apartment complex if someone abducted her was it someone
She knew or a complete stranger her mother believes it could have been just about anyone Joey knew no dangers she met no strangers everybody was her friend she was just too free with information she didn’t even see anything wrong with picking up a hitchhiker that always scared me To this day no information has been found to lead us to believe whether Joey left or met with Foul Play the investigation is nobody has been eliminated at this point until we can get better information regarding the whereabouts of Joey Lynn office what happened in this fire and
What happened to this child everyone is a person of interest police say Joey’s family has been consistently Cooperative Joey’s mother says police have asked them to take polygraphs they have agreed to do so and are waiting for the tests to be scheduled Alexis Brolin says investigators asked
Him for a second polygraph and told him he in fact did not take the test in the very beginning Mr Brown appeared very cooperative from the interviews that other investigators have done with him when he was contact he always got back to guys he would answer any questions that guys
Would ask him but as time went by the cooperation appeared to be less and less Alexis Brolin Jr is not considered a suspect in the arson the death of his child or Joey’s disappearance and he says he has no idea what happened I love rocked my brain trying to figure
Out all the possibilities of what-ifs uh [Applause] still without any suspects Pennsylvania State Police remain committed to providing some form of closure for Joey’s loved ones I can only imagine the pain that the office family and Mr Brolin are going through I could not put myself in their shoes I wouldn’t want to my sons go on
And no matter the answers or he’s not coming back uh I tried my best to forget everything as soon as birthday comes around it fired everything happened so close and after his birthday even with this devastating memory and Joey’s disappearance Alexis says he has worked hard to start a new chapter in
His life I have moved on uh remarried no my wife has been very supportive she’s been a blessing um it’s whatever I’m utter is pretty much a rock uh so she’s been good for me and and my daughter Alexis’s daughter with Joey is now six years old but for Joey’s mother her
Older sister and her now 13 year old daughter it’s been impossible to move on with their lives this song is I’ve got breath left my body I’m gonna keep looking for Joey if we find her and she’s dead at least we can put and into it and put her to rest
Right now here I don’t care in the sense of what happened or why what I care about is finding her that’s what I hear about for my niece You know I made a promise for any information that leads them to her somebody out there has to know something and if you’re the one that did it have a backbone and stand up and if it was an accident you know I’ll even help you if you just tell me where she’s at
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