Found Safe TX - Michele Roode Boyd, 41, San Antonio, 24 Nov 2016 *Arrest*

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I'm wondering why when Seth came home to discover that things had been moved around and his wife and daughter gone...why didn't he call the police? He went back to his brother's house and had dinner? His daughter was gone. There was no police contact at all until her daughter was found?
 
KelsK said:
Thank you! I hope you hear back soon. Are you planning on asking specific questions, or what are you thinking?
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I just got off the phone with Mr. Reisman (couldn’t believe how quickly I heard back from him). He was very nice and down-to-earth, and I’m glad I reached out to him.

Unfortunately, though, he has not been able to obtain additional information from LE, and suggested I submit a request for a copy of the police report, so I think I will do that now. As it is public information, I should be able to post it here once I receive it.



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blaf2 said:
I'm wondering why when Seth came home to discover that things had been moved around and his wife and daughter gone...why didn't he call the police? He went back to his brother's house and had dinner? His daughter was gone. There was no police contact at all until her daughter was found?
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If it really happened the way he says, I can somewhat understand why he wouldn't call police at that time. They were separated and he was not living in the house-- most of the time he was staying at his brother's place. She had been dodging his phone calls and she told her mom she didn't want to go to Thanksgiving Dinner with him. If they were arguing at that time, he probably figured she would show back up later after dinner. He didn't say anything was missing or that it looked like a break in. He said things were moved around in weird places. Now I DO wonder why he didn't call the police when he went back to the house after the Thanksgiving meal (and after that weird facebook friend request) and his wife and daughter were STILL not home. That would have been the time I would have started calling her family and friends to try to track them down and called the police shortly after if no one had heard from her. Even if they had been arguing at the time, his daughter was gone too. They could have been in a car accident. It IS strange that he didn't call around looking for his daughter that night, IMO.
This is of course assuming the day happened as he said... :thinking:
 
Gardener1850 said:
If it really happened the way he says, I can somewhat understand why he wouldn't call police at that time. They were separated and he was not living in the house-- most of the time he was staying at his brother's place. She had been dodging his phone calls and she told her mom she didn't want to go to Thanksgiving Dinner with him. If they were arguing at that time, he probably figured she would show back up later after dinner. He didn't say anything was missing or that it looked like a break in. He said things were moved around in weird places. Now I DO wonder why he didn't call the police when he went back to the house after the Thanksgiving meal (and after that weird facebook friend request) and his wife and daughter were STILL not home. That would have been the time I would have started calling her family and friends to try to track them down and called the police shortly after if no one had heard from her. Even if they had been arguing at the time, his daughter was gone too. They could have been in a car accident. It IS strange that he didn't call around looking for his daughter that night, IMO.
This is of course assuming the day happened as he said... :thinking:
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Do we know for sure he didn’t contact police or her family? It’s usually 24 hours before someone can be reported missing. If not mistaken by the time he went to the house it would have only been a few hours since someone had heard from her... not really alarming. Police would likely do nothing at that point as the child was with the mother who she lived with and family had talked to her that day. She could have been shopping or anywhere and going to return home soon for all anyone knew. And in San Antonio, being gone a few hours is not abnormal as it takes an hour to get anywhere and an hour to get home if the traffic isn’t too bad plus the time you spend shopping or eating.
I guess I’m just not seeing why he would have called police so soon just because she missed Thanksgiving dinner at his brothers which she didn’t want to go to. He wasn’t staying with her so he might not have known that she didn’t eventually come home, probably thought she was blowing him off and avoiding him. The last thing that you would think is that she would go missing leaving her daughter alone. I’m sure he didn’t think she would do that. Like you said.. if it happened that way
For some reason I think she is alive and hiding due to paranoia and mental illness


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rascal32 said:
Do we know for sure he didn’t contact police or her family? It’s usually 24 hours before someone can be reported missing. If not mistaken by the time he went to the house it would have only been a few hours since someone had heard from her... not really alarming. Police would likely do nothing at that point as the child was with the mother who she lived with and family had talked to her that day. She could have been shopping or anywhere and going to return home soon for all anyone knew. And in San Antonio, being gone a few hours is not abnormal as it takes an hour to get anywhere and an hour to get home if the traffic isn’t too bad plus the time you spend shopping or eating.
I guess I’m just not seeing why he would have called police so soon just because she missed Thanksgiving dinner at his brothers which she didn’t want to go to. He wasn’t staying with her so he might not have known that she didn’t eventually come home, probably thought she was blowing him off and avoiding him. The last thing that you would think is that she would go missing leaving her daughter alone. I’m sure he didn’t think she would do that. Like you said.. if it happened that way
For some reason I think she is alive and hiding due to paranoia and mental illness


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There is no 24 hour wait period before you can report a person missing. That is a common myth that is just not true. The first 24 hours can be the most crucial time to search-- especially if they are someone suffering from mental illness or could be somehow injured. We don't know for sure he didn't try to track her down but the way it has been reported so far is that he went back to the house, went to sleep and woke up to a phone call early in the morning saying his daughter had been found at a store. It seems he had no idea Michele was missing until that phone call. The story also makes it sound as if he went to their previously shared house after Thanksgiving dinner and SLEPT THERE, but I suppose it is possible he went to the house, saw Michele and daughter were STILL not home and then went back to his brother's house to go to sleep. Perhaps we are just not told that he left again. But if he stayed the night at the house Michele and daughter should have come back to and she was not home very late at night with their young daughter, THAT is what should have been concerning, IMO. Unless it was common for Michele to take her daughter and go stay at a friend's house (I don't personally know any adult with kids who do this regularly but I guess it is not out of the question that it could be something she often did when they were arguing). It's one thing for an adult to be gone overnight and their spouse not be concerned--that I can understand sort of, but it's much more complicated when you include that the daughter was supposedly gone with her. Plus the weird facebook friend request should have got him thinking something was off but I suppose it would be easy to blow that off by itself. Maybe it's only hindsight and maybe we are being too hard on him by saying he should have contacted police sooner. IDK.

I hope you are right and Michele can be found (and possibly restored to health) for her daughter's sake. A year is such a long time to be gone though...
 
I would think that most of those details would be in the police report. As far as being hard on her husband...perhaps? I don't think it is unusual and if it were me, I would understand that considering that the sole bread winner for the family surprises you with a divorce and that now you have to get a job and help take care of 3 kids. I try pretty hard to be objective. Maybe Michele decided that she really didn't like being a mother or a wife and just left. I hear that happens. I don't know. Michele was not in a good situation...she was on her 3rd marriage, had a husband that didn't work, had a tough job and was bankrupt. Maybe she questioned how she ever got to that point. Maybe she had some quirky things that she kept to herself and reached a breaking point. There are just so many things to question...the "friend" request, no information on her computer, why this, why that. I am very stuck on the recent pictures. It looks like Michele's height and build and when I zoom as far as I can, it looks like her complexion. The person that took the picture, apparently was close enough to see a smile and thought that it really looked like Michele's smile. Maybe she was a victim of gaslighting. Maybe she was disgusted with some of the bad decisions she made regarding marriages. Who knows. Like I said, I try to be objective. The suitcase in her car? How disorganized was her house when her husband got there? Are there pictures?
 
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Her brother also said told the TCPalm reporter that she was acting paranoid. His opinions on what happened were so similar to Michele's husband's statements in the TCPalm articles that posters here were having a hard time remembering who said what and attributing all the quotes to her husband. I put sections in my timeline with quotes from the two men to try to help keep it straight. It is odd that the brother and husband had a similar opinion that she had a mental breakdown. A coworker also said she had been crying at work but that is easily attributable to her marriage issues and certainly not a sign of mental illness! (JMO) I would like to hear more from her mom on what she thinks happened. I will say this-- only one person said Michele "doesn't exist right now". I don't know any family member of a missing person who would say something like that-- even family members who believe their loved met foul play would not say they don't exist. JMO.

http://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion...last-thanksgiving-laurence-reisman/853882001/
 
Michele's family believes that she had mental illness, a recent onset. Certainly doesn't seem that she was rational otherwise she wouldn't have left her daughter, especially the way that she did.
 
Gardener1850 said:
Her brother also said told the TCPalm reporter that she was acting paranoid. His opinions on what happened were so similar to Michele's husband's statements in the TCPalm articles that posters here were having a hard time remembering who said what and attributing all the quotes to her husband. I put sections in my timeline with quotes from the two men to try to help keep it straight. It is odd that the brother and husband had a similar opinion that she had a mental breakdown. A coworker also said she had been crying at work but that is easily attributable to her marriage issues and certainly not a sign of mental illness! (JMO) I would like to hear more from her mom on what she thinks happened. I will say this-- only one person said Michele "doesn't exist right now". I don't know any family member of a missing person who would say something like that-- even family members who believe their loved met foul play would not say they don't exist. JMO.

http://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion...last-thanksgiving-laurence-reisman/853882001/
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Very true.. I also wonder in regards to Michele's brother, if he saw this change in behavior, or if he was saying this because it was what had been told to him? I think right now, Michele's family knows Seth holds the key as far as Michele's daughter goes, so they may not want to upset Seth, if that makes sense?
 
Of course it makes sense! The odd behavior that they noticed was connected to the book. I would like to speak with one or two of her coworkers.
 
Gardener1850 said:
Not sure if this was already posted, but I just noticed Michele is in Namus now: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/36366/
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Wonder why it took a year?
Thanks for posting it. I can’t believe she hasn’t been found yet.


Eta
Has this been discussed?
“In September, Seth Boyd got a call from a man who said he gave her a ride in San Antonio. She apparently was spooked when the man tried to take her picture and she bolted.”

http://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion...g-laurence-reisman/853882001/?from=new-cookie

Wonder how the man got his number?
 
Yeah, what's up with that? Who is this man that gave her a ride? Ride to where? So, am I understanding correctly that she was in someone else's car and the driver tried to take her picture? A little weird in my opinion.
 
blaf2 said:
Yeah, what's up with that? Who is this man that gave her a ride? Ride to where? So, am I understanding correctly that she was in someone else's car and the driver tried to take her picture? A little weird in my opinion.
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Well, maybe or maybe not. If I was talking to someone and they were acting strangely I and I thought they could possibly have some memory loss or needed help, I might take a picture, too. For those who follow cases, we know just how important photos are. It's the reason Libby German recorded her murderer. In the day and age of everyone photo in everything on a phone, it doesn't seem odd to me, at all. And if he ran across a story of her or even tried searching because something still felt off about that lady, he could easily find him. I'm not saying this is what happened, but it doesn't seem like a stretch, to me.

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cool12 said:
Wonder why it took a year?
Thanks for posting it. I can’t believe she hasn’t been found yet.


Eta
Has this been discussed?
“In September, Seth Boyd got a call from a man who said he gave her a ride in San Antonio. She apparently was spooked when the man tried to take her picture and she bolted.”

http://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion...g-laurence-reisman/853882001/?from=new-cookie

Wonder how the man got his number?
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Good catch, cool! I’d completely missed it.

And what a great question you ask. Did the man just happen to come across Michele’s Help Find FB page, call Heidi Search Center (one of her missing person poster has their number), and then they referred him to Seth? If that’s what happened, would Heidi Search Center automatically let LE know?

If Seth has told LE about the call, have they been able to gather any info, such as the number from which the call was made, whether it was a cell or a landline, etc.? Have they been able to identify the man and talk to him?

Where did the man pick Michele up? Did she tell him where she wanted to be dropped off? Did she say anything to him about her daughter?

Additionally, for what reason would the man try to take a picture of Michele? Had he seen the Help Find page, a MSM article -or even read this thread!- and think the woman he’d given a ride to looked like Michele?

Would love to have Seth back on here.
 
blaf2 said:
The article was written by Laurence Reisman on 11/20/17 in the TC Palm.
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I see what you're referring to now. I personally, and absolutely, don't think that sighting was even Michele, though.
 
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