AZ AZ - Michael Tapley, 52, Snowflake, 15 February 2008

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Great newspaper article. I will email Nathan gonzalez. Every single day.
 
I would be interested in knowing why this Gary Butler is still in office, in Navajo County, since he has botched this case so badly!

Also, I have a suggestion! This Gina Tapley's whereabouts need to be monitored closely. Every time she gets close to some guy, he needs to be warned that she may have offed her last husband.
 
1 Gina G Tapley
Gina Haskell
Gina C Haskell
46
Chandler, AZ
Mesa, AZ
Knob Noster, MO
Evergreen, CO
Grand Forks, ND
Raymore, MO
Hatton, ND
Grand Forks Afb, ND

This is from People Search.
 
Monk great links!

Claycat, last I heard Gina was living down in Phx/mesa area. I believe the cops know where she is and are keeping up with her but who knows.
You know, this WILL be solved and Gina will end up where she deserves to be. Just going to take a little time.
 
Good article - very glad to see it! I will be emailing Mr. Gonzalez to encourage follow-ups on this. Didn't she come back to AZ in a van (having gotten rid of Michael's truck)? From the article: "Gina now lives in a van in a Gilbert parking lot and works for a shipping and receiving company. She declined to be interviewed for this story when reached by phone." Wonder if she realized it would end up being her home?! As transient as that could be... at least it's noted and somebody is keeping tabs on her!
 
It reminds me of the chris Farley SNL skit "I live in a van down by the lake" LMAO Gina deserves it! She can run but she can't hide.

ps I love ur avatar
 
ArizonaGiGi said:
It reminds me of the chris Farley SNL skit "I live in a van down by the lake" LMAO Gina deserves it! She can run but she can't hide.

ps I love ur avatar
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Hee hee, I'm always jokingly quoting that chris farley line to my son... telling him he'd better get on the studying because he doesn't want to end up in a van down by the river! LOL And when I read that in the article about Gina I felt the same... this was one of her rewards coming back to her!

re avatar... don't ya just love Christmas-time! :)
 
*giggle* There were several Matt Foley skits but the one where he crashes into the table is my favorite SNL skit of all time. This is what happens when the law isn't followed...you live in a van down by the river....or lake in this case.
 
ya only Gina lives in a van down by the....parking lot? Gap store? stop light?
hehehehe I could go on and on
 
If this has been linked already I'm missing it. 11/25/08 Justice Interrupted radio interview with Kim, Michael's sister. Good program thru-out but Kim's portion starts at about the 26 minute mark if you want to jump ahead.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/justiceinterrupted/2008/11/26/Justice-Interrupted

As I tend to do with a few cases I follow when I come visit the thread I go looking on the net to see if there is anything new to be found on it. That's how I came to find this interview and I'm glad I did. There's some new stuff going on...

Kim, you, Michael and your family are in my thoughts and prayers!

ETA: In going back thru the posts here to see if the above radio interview had been linked I came across Kim's info about a search the weekend of Nov. 9. Went looking for anything The Western Watchmen would have written up about it. It's in PDF format. http://thewesternwatchmen.com/images/11-18-08.pdf
 
Kim,

I just wanted to stop in a post to say that Michael and your family is in my prayers. I'm sure this is a difficult time as the one year mark is fast approaching.

I searched just now to see if there was anything new to be found on the net and came up empty.

I just wrote to Nathan Gonzalez at the Arizona Republic asking that something be written about Michael's disappearance. I wrote him back in December and he was kind enough to reply. I hope their interest has not waned.

If anyone else would like to write to Mr. Gonzalez to show interest and support, his public email is: nathan.gonzalez@arizonarepublic.com

Still praying.
 
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. Indeed, this is proving to be a difficult time for my family. It feels as if there has been no progress in the past year, but there are small steps toward justice. I have contacted Nathan Gonzales asking for an anniversary article as well as Gary Grado from the Mesa Tribune. Neither have responded and I am not sure if they will carry an article on this important date or not. I'm certain your email or calls could help persuade them. There will be a couple of articles and I will link them on Michael's website as soon as they are out. I am still trying to get Michael's DNA profile processed and recorded in the national database. I am also trying to get him listed on NAMUS. I am told everyone is backed up these days and that is why it is taking so long to get anything started. Well...it's been a year! We all need to keep contacting our congressmen and law offices to make them more aware of the need for acceptable and enforced proceedures that are mandatory, not optional in the search for loved ones who are missing and the processing and recording of unidentified bodies. We have so far yet to go!

Never giving up the fight...Kim
 
Im sorry if this has been posted before , but I just came across this missing persons case and my immediate reaction was "she did it"

Initially I thought it was a missing couple and then upon further googling and coming across here , I see that she is in fact NOT missing Just the Husband Michael

Havent people heard of DIVORCE!

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/11/25/20081125mr-
missing1128.html

"There are so many thoughts that have gone through our minds," said Christina, 26. Her family believes her father's disappearance from his rural Snowflake cabin Feb. 15 is an act of foul play, and believe his wife, Gina Tapley, could have answers.

Navajo County Sheriff's authorities are convinced Gina hasn't been entirely truthful about her husband's disappearance, but have little evidence to proceed with charges, Deputy Commander K.C. Clark said. Gina now lives in a van in a Gilbert parking lot and works for a shipping and receiving company. She declined to be interviewed for this story when reached by phone.

Navajo and Coconino County investigators have searched by air and ground, using cadaver dogs and even a psychic, but the trail has gone cold.

"It's definitely like the guy just fell off the face of the earth," Clark said. "In today's world, with surveillance cameras, it's hard to do that without being found."
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And this snipped also
n an interview in March, she told investigators she and her husband drove to Missouri to visit her hospitalized mother.

Gina stated she dropped her husband off at the Isle of Capris Casino in Kansas City, Mo., but when she returned he was nowhere to be found. Surveillance footage from the casino turned up no sign that Michael was ever there, Clark said.

On Feb. 25, ownership of Michael Tapley's truck was signed over to an Adrian, Mo., man. Gina claimed her husband instructed her to sell the truck because it required repairs and they were being harassed by bill collectors.

The note signing over ownership of the truck was signed "Mike Tapley," Shirley Tapley said, but she said he always signed documents and letters Michael A. Tapley.

An initial analysis of the note by Missouri police was inconclusive, Stevens said. Navajo County officials are in the process of conducting another test.

But those who recalled coming into contact with Gina told police they never saw Michael, Stevens said.

"We can't prove or disprove what she's telling us," the detective said.

Gina successfully passed a voice stress analysis test by investigators, who remain unclear if she had a role in her husband's disappearance.

Given Michael and Gina Tapley's rocky marriage and that bill collectors were calling, Stevens said it is possible Michael simply vanished on his own.

"There are a lot of indications for me that he could have walked away from everything," Stevens said.

Shirley Tapley said that's unlikely and believes Gina may have carried through on previous threats to harm her son. In 2005, Michael received a protection order against his wife, who he claimed assaulted and "repeatedly threatened to shoot" him, according to court documents.

The couple later reconciled.
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I don't believe he just upped and walked away either.
So what are the "lot of indications" that this Stevens Fellow said ???

If a person has been up on domestic issues with their spouse they would be the FIRST person to be looked at if it were the MALE up on the Domestic Issues.

Why aren't these Detectives and so forth looking harder at her and pulling her in for more interviews and polygraphs and things ?

Kim I am very sorry that you and your family have been going through this , have you or your mother or Christine tried to contact Gina in any way ?
 
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/t/tapley_michael.html

According to this Michael was reported missing 18th Feb by Co worker , when Gina got in touch with Le after being missing for some 24 days as well (apparently!) she told them he just upped and left on the 20th Feb

Yeah right !

She claimed Michale impulsively left home on the 20th feb

But then it states that she and he were visiting her relatives in Missouri and that she dropped him off at the casino and when she went back to pick him up he wasnt there

So which was it :eek:

I think she disappeared for those some 3 weeks to dispose of the body so no evidence was left and to ensure that nothing was left on her GSR DNA BLOOD etc..

And to clean down the truck and destroy whatever else

My heart goes out to Kim and her family and I hope that 2009 will bring you the justice you deserve for Michael
 
Kim I just wanted to let you know that I was thinking about you, your family and Michael today. :prayer:
 
Thank you BOTH for the PM's you sent me..

I think this case needs to be kept bumped up for some of the super duper sleuthers on here to get in and help nut this out

Whose up for it ??

Come on................

Believe ? SeriouslySearching, Capoly, Christine, So many of you are Guns at this ....

There is a woman who I believe and so do many others that has got away with Murder,
murder of a lovely man who has children and a sister and A mother who are desperate to know what happened to him

Come on anyone want to help ? Its been nearly ONE YEAR this week....

Im put the challenge out there !

Whose up for it :)
 
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