So you filed a report and turned over a description and all of the important details to LE right away. Congratulations for being a responsible citizen. I'm a little confused because in your first post you merely asked if the bikers had come forward or been ID'd. I don't blame you for being curious. I would be, too. To answer your question, LE has not released any information about two bikers in the area when MS disappeared. That doesn't mean your tip was ignored. LE has the details you gave them, and I'm sure they've followed up on it. If and when they see a need to question you further, they'll be in touch. If you recall a detail you left out of the initial report, then you should contact the officer who took the report. He/she might be able to tell you whether info panned out. Otherwise, there's nothing more to be said. So be patient and feel good about yourself for having done the right thing.
bessie, I honor your opinion, but in virtually every case that I have researched, significant tips were overlooked or neglected. Prolly one of the best known investigations where neglected evidence & tips were illustrated was the Oba Chandler investigation(FL) for the murder of the Rogers mother & daughters;
Angels and Demons- Pulizer Prize winning
'Sunset' - Chapter 1
By:
Thomas French
One year had gone by since the murders, and then another, and now the investigators were deep into a third. They were working day and night, working weekends, putting off vacations, losing weight, gaining weight, growing pale and pasty and haggard, waking at 3 a.m. with a jolt and scratching notes on pads beside their beds. Their sergeant did not know if they would ever find the answer. As far as he was concerned, the case was not even in their hands.
"I believe there are demons all around us," he would say, "just as I believe there are angels all around us."
* 'New Eyes look into the case files after over 3 years-Ch 3
Looking back on the review, the two investigators acknowledge that the sessions were sometimes difficult and even exasperating. Kappel remembers some verbal sparring. Pflieger says it felt as though the quality of his work was being questioned.
Either way, the two of them told the new team that they had tried everything they could think of, that there was nothing new to be explored.
"We did that," they said repeatedly. "It's already been done."
Moore and the other members of the team did not agree. Two weeks after the review began, Moore's team concluded that many things had not been done. They discovered, says Moore, that the Clearwater Beach brochure recovered from the Rogers car -- the one marked with the handwritten directions showing the family how to reach the motel -- had never been processed for prints.
Late that spring, as the one-year anniversary of the murders approached, Moore went to one of his superiors, Maj. Cliff Fouts, and told him he wanted to do a review of the case. He wanted to gather a team of new investigators -- people who would look with fresh eyes -- and have them pore over the case books and talk to the original investigators and then see what shook loose.
Okay, said the major.
* Other items found in the car and in the motel room, Moore reports, had never been processed, either. Many of the hundreds of tips that had come pouring in at various points during the investigation had not been pursued.
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"My advice would be to follow up with LPD on your tip with dilligence"..
I guess hangover cures vary by person... For me personally, pounding headache and riding a bike not a good idea.