Here are excerpts of what I found on WS thread #1 from the Sam/Theresa Parker case. No wonder the de ja vu feeling....
March 28, 2007:
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_104261.asp?imgID=18263
Sheriff Wilson, at a press conference on Monday afternoon, said Ms. Parker had four days off work and took a day of leave. He said she was due back at work at 7 p.m. Monday. But he said no one has heard from her since Wednesday night.
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GBI Agent James Harris said the agency could not discuss some aspects of the case, including the location where Ms. Parker made her last call on her cell phone. He said the phone is now off.
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He [GBI Agent James Harris ] said Ms. Parker had discussed with her family the marital problems she was having.
He said she had gone on trips by herself before, but had always stayed in contact with her family.
Relatives of Theresa Parker contacted the Walker County sheriff's office on Saturday after growing concerned because they hadn't heard from Parker in several days.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261660,00.html
Parker, 41, was last heard from about 10 p.m. Wednesday when she talked on the phone with her sister, said Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson. It was Parker's habit to talk to her mother or other relatives at least once a day.
"Obviously this is totally uncharacteristic for her. ... She's always been a very punctual type person who is very dedicated to her job, her family," Wilson told FOXNews.com on Tuesday.
chicoliving post 3-27-2007; media link no longer working:
Newschannel 9 has learned the is a history of domestic violence. Police were called to the couple's home in 2002 and again in 2004. Neighbors say they didn't know of any problems. And while investigators are hoping for the best, Virginia Cordell is afraid her neighbor will never make it home. Teresa was in the process of moving some personal items into her new apartment in an adjacent or neighboring town. They had been separated about 10 days. LE did confirm the complaints in 2002 but wanted to be careful on how that would be perceived by the media.
TaylorJ4 post 3/28/2007
Local news tonight reported they were supposed to go to the bank together to split their assets but they never showed up. They are searching the woods around their house-husband is there but very little is being said about him. Her sisters were interviewed and are adamant that she would not just disappear; something bad has happened to her. Co-workers say the same thing-no way she would not show up for work the past 2 nights without calling.
angelmom post 3/28/2007
And there is this little tiny part of me, hoping against hope, that thinks the perfect way to get away from a man like this would be to wait until he was going fishing and then to totally disappear. If there has been a problem since at least 2002, she could have been hiding money, gotten a new cell phone, snuck clothing out of the house, etc. From what I understand there are no kids to leave behind, so maybe she thought letting her family worry a little bit was the price she had to pay to be safe.
Chicoliving post 3/30/2007
Caruthers said she asked Sam why he hadn’t reported Theresa missing after 24 hours, to which he responded that he didn’t think much of it because Theresa often liked to take off on little trips every once in a while.
Perhaps post 3/30/2007
According to this article, Theresa's husband was fishing with a friend, a local attorney, on Thursday. This friend says he would be "shocked" if Sam Parker were involved with Theresa's disappearance.
concernedperson post 3/30/2007
I would suggest that anyone who has reason to doubt a small town investigation in Georgia and think it is not moving along to contact Gov. Sonny Perdue.
chicoliving post 3/31/2007
The sheriff said that law enforcement officials are now trying to locate Ms. Parker’s missing cell phone by honing in on the area where it was last used. Although in some cases cell phones can be pinpointed to within a couple of blocks of their location, this cell phone provider can only narrow it down to about a 40-square-mile area, he told Ms. Grace. He said volunteers will conduct a massive search covering at least a 40-mile area on Saturday morning.
chicoliving post 3-31-2007
Hilda Wilson, Theresa's sister on site at search. She'd rather not speak about the family's feelings about the husband. Asked if she's noticed that he's been helpful with the search and if he seems distraught. She replies that she's had no contact with him and agrees that is odd that he hasn't been to any of these searches. He wasn't at the vigil and she is concerned.
TGIRecovered post 4-1-2007
I still believe that the cheif is minimizing the incidents which happened in his own jurisdiction. I just don't believe those calls were made just because of a verbal arguement, in part due to the behavior Sam apparently displayed toward Theresa in the past. What do you think?
wicket post 4/2/2007
I'll bet he was a tad surprised to find this case on Nancy Grace and on the Fox News over and over again - small towns tend to sweep dv and other crimes under the rocks - he probably felt this would run its course and then be quietly forgotten.
Utopia 4/2/2007
Sam had recently moved into his father's home as his father passed away recently. He was apparently going back and forth between the two homes. This would be why LE was interested in searching both residences.
[Sigh...]