excerpt from the book regarding DD, witness sighting of liz's car in port perry. he was passenger in coworkers car, stopped at hwy 7a and hwy 12, travelling east. car pulls up beside them in the left turn lane. and just south of this intersection is haugens chicken and ribs barbeque restaurant. he phoned 42 division on july 1st, not the crime stoppers number as i originally stated in a post, sorry bout that. his sighting was around 6am as stated in the book.
" Looking to his left out drivers window, DD noticed that there was a small silver import braking beside them in the left-turn lane. The only reason for taking more than a passing glance at the car, he was now explaining to the detective, was that he saw those weird-looking plastic fingers sticking out of the door and he wanted to have a look at the driver. It was like pulling up beside somebody with a "Honk if you love jesus " bumper sticker or the *advertiser censored* end of a Garfield the cat doll hanging from the trunk-it was hard to resist the urge to size up the kind of person who would want to draw that kind of attention to themselves out on the road.
So DD peered across his coworker and through the passenger window of the silver car, which was a foot or so closer to the intersection than their. The officer wrote down what DD recalled about the man he saw behind the wheel; " Lone occupant, described as male, white, 24-25, blond hair, semi-receding, wearing white fluorescent T-shirt, also driver had blond moustache and was thin faced". DD remembered that, for a brief instant, their eyes met before the guy quickly glanced away and began fiddling around inside-down between the seats, up in the dash and then back down below the seats again-as though he was looking for something. It sort of struck him that the guy didn't look like he belonged in the car.
It also appeared as though he'd been on a real bender the night before. Besides the five o'clock shadow on his face, his longish hair, which came halfway down his ear and just below the collar at the back, was all over the place. His coworker hadn't really seen any of this, DD said, as he'd been watching the lights, a bit anxious that they might be late for work. After no more than a minute, the light turned green and they were off, and DD's gaze was back on the road in front of them, not bothering to watch the other car make its turn south.
That was pretty much all he could remember. When asked why he'd waited more than a week before contacting the police, DD didn't really have a solid answer; he just said that he'd wanted to talk it over with his wife. The officer could hear a couple of young kids horsing around in the background.
As the officer's typed report on DD's observations filtered through the Homicide Squad, it was met with little fanfare. Neither Steve Reesor nor Brian Raybould bothered visiting or even calling DD-that job was left up to another, more junior detective. Their lack of enthusiasm was the result of disbelief-their standing theory was that Elizabeth's Bains car had never left Scarborough. They had come to this conclusion because of what the receptionist at the Three R Auto Body had told them about Bain's car. The receptionist had been adamant that she'd seen the silver Tercel across the road when she'd arrived for work the Wednesday morning after Bain's disappearance and that it had remained in the exact same position during regular working hours until the police arrived on Friday afternoon. With the receptionist's version of events already accepted, DD's sighting was, for the time being, officially deemed "impossible".
