Aug 11, 2009 - PB
I called my dad that morning by telephone, he had obviously been getting quite a few phone calls that morning. Then I realized that my BIL was there and I DID hear him say he was going to the "hardware store". My dad responded to him in a favorable way. I told my dad that I would let him go and talk to him later. That was the last time that I spoke to him. Times vary as I could not tell you the exact time that I called Dad, I gave an approximate of sometime between 11 and 12 and found later it was probably after 11:30 a.m.
Aug 13, 2009 - PB
LE has looked at D's phone records - know because they did not know which phone call was mine, because I came up as private.
Aug 18, 2009 - Namus (Data entered by daughter PB): Last Known Alive (LKA) entered as 12:00
“He was at home and seemed in good spirits when I last spoke to him somewhere between 11 a.m. - 12pm. His son-in-law was there doing odd jobs as Dads new wife was returning from Missouri on Wed. 7/29/09. Heard son-in-law say he was going to the hardware store. When he returned the housekeeper was waiting outside and Dad was gone. He did NOT take his car, but did have his keys and wallet. No contact or word has been heard from since.”
Oct 10, 2009 – OC Register Article
Harrod spoke to several people on his home telephone the day he disappeared. Police seized those phone records, and they aren't giving out the numbers to anyone.
Oct, 2009 – Reporter from OC Register – Comment Posted Under Article
Officials have said that at 10 a.m. July 27 there was a phone call to Bob Harrod, which is the last time anyone other than Jeff Michaels verified he was at the house. Police are not releasing the content of those phone records.
Oct 21, 2009 – Reporter from OC Register via Email
The last phonecall was recorded at around 10 a.m. So that is the last time anyone can confirm Harrod was in the house other than Jeff Michaels.
Jan 7, 2010 – NBC Article
The pair spoke twice daily by telephone while she was away, most recently Sunday evening, Loomis said.
Sep 30, 2010 - RB
The police have not revealed the phone records but each of my sisters said called Dad early that day, the latest of their two calls was around 11:45, as that call was completed just before noon. Dad gave my sister the impression that he had received a number of calls that morning but, I know Dad did not usually like talking on the phone and would often "rush" callers off. He always acted like he preferred to be left alone, that the telephone was just a bother. Dad had an answering machine but wouldn't turn it on, so .......
April, 2013 - From Disappeared
Fontelle: I called him twice a day. I would call him in the morning and we would talk, and then I would call him in the evening every night, 10 o'clock.
Narrator: But, two nights before her flight, Fontelle has trouble reaching Bob.
Fontelle: I tried to call Bob Monday evening and I didn't get an answer, so I kind of thought maybe he'd gone out in the car to the grocery store and hadn't gotten back yet so I tried again in about 20 minutes. Still didn't get an answer.
[snipped]
Agnes: And he said, "That will be fine, I will be here. Jeff is coming and he's going to take care of a couple of things in the house before Fontelle comes." So, I went to the house, knocked on the door. Nobody answered. I looked in the mailbox because that's where he normally leaves me the key. The key wasn't there, so I sat on the bench in front of the house.
[snipped]
Fontelle: Bob told me that they'd had the meeting and it had been quite argumentative. He was very upset about it. Very upset.
http://www2.ocregister.com/articles/harrod-bob-police-2598739-fontelle-michaels?orderby=TimeStampAscending&showRecommendedOnly=1&oncommentsPage=2#slComments
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Man-81-Disappears-After-Marrying-Childhood-Sweetheart-52086697.html
Very useful!
So from this, there is quite a bit of confusion and discrepancy over how many phone calls and who spoke with Bob last on the Mon when he disappeared. So I'm going to accept the police reports which say Bob received several phone calls on Monday. The police says the last time they can confirm that Bob was still alive was at 10am Mon. I'm going to assume that even though this may not have been the last phone call Bob received, it means that the person who spoke with Bob at 10am is likely someone the police considers an independent, impartial source (not Bob's family).
Here we see that Fontelle on the Disappeared episode saying that she called Bob TWICE a day, once in the morning, and once at night at 10pm. And that she tried to call Bob in the evening on Mon but no answer and she called him again and started to worry. But Det. Loomis saying "The pair spoke twice daily by telephone while she was away, most recently Sunday evening" so this needs clarification.
Either Fontelle called Bob that Mon morning and spoke with him, or she didn't. One would think if Fontelle had tried to call Bob in the morning and couldn't reach him, she'd start worrying early on in the day, instead of saying in the episode that she tried him in the evening and then started to get concerned then. Also, one would think if she couldn't reach Bob in the morning and afternoon that she'd have contacted his daughters earlier than in the evening...
I think investigators should re-interview everyone Bob spoke with Monday morning, by phone, and in person (Jeff I assume was the only person we know Bob met up with in his home and likely spoke with and of course, if Bob met with foul play, whoever the perp is that abducted/did Bob harm). This would give the best clue as to Bob's state of mind that Monday morning.
Also, investigators should ask Fontelle who broached the topic of adding her to the family trust -- her or Bob? I think this is of significance as if Fontelle is the one who wanted Bob to add her to the trust, we have the added complication that Bob might have (mis?)interpreted that to mean that Fontelle was more financially invested in his money than in him...
From what the daughters said about Bob not wanting to talk by phone and seemed "rushed" on Mon morning (and in general that he doesn't like talking on the phone), it sounds to me that either he was impatient with his own daughters and didn't want to talk to them that morning or he was in fact in a hurry to do something.
I'm wondering how he sounded with Fontelle. Did he always sound "rushed" with Fontelle or did he take his time on the phone with her?
Also, how did Bob sound when Agnes called him Mon morning to reschedule her cleaning day from Tues to Mon? Also "rushed"?
Unless Bob always sounds "rushed" to everyone on the phone, the impatience of Bob towards his daughters on the phone Mon morning suggests that there is animosity between Bob and his daughters...
Also, the fact that Bob's bed was unmade and according to the CL Agnes, she's never witnessed that before, also suggests that Bob was either in a rush to get out of bed or that he was rushed out of the house before he could make the bed. I am wondering whether someone (such as Jeff or the perp?) had come to Bob's home early and gotten Bob out of bed to open the door and somehow abducted Bob before Bob had a chance to make the bed.
To me, it doesn't make sense that if Bob, a military retiree, was in a general good mood and looking forward to home repairs by Jeff and the arrival of his new wife on Wed, that he would jump out of bed to greet Jeff but then disappear without making his bed. From Paula's own statements, she phoned and spoke with Bob as late as near noon (12pm) so there was no reason his bed was unmade unless while Jeff was doing repairs, Bob was still attempting to sleep. But then as soon as Jeff left for Home Depot, Bob then leaps out of bed to flee without making his bed? That doesn't sound reasonable -- unless someone/thing incite Bob to leave the house in an emergency...
Does anyone have the transcript of Jeff's interview with the police?
Any way we look at this, something or someone made Bob leave the house in a hurry. I'm guessing it's that someone falsely claimed there was an "emergency" somewhere and Bob rushed out of the house with this person. Yes, I'm suspecting foul play. Since all three daughters, Fontelle, and barber Josie presumably had alibis, I'm guessing it's either Jeff or his son AH.
