Suspecting foul play, the State Crime Lab, along with investigators from the Brown County Sheriff’s Office, asked for and were granted a new search warrant in the case.
The warrant was executed last week at the home where Prokopovitz was last seen. She disappeared from her Pittsfield home on April 25th, 2013, leaving behind her cell phone, purse and cigarettes. Her husband reported her missing the next day.
investigators seized 38 items including:
seven computers
12 hard drives
Prokopovitz’s cell phone
her purse
two canes
financial documents
“female sexually explicit photographs”
a picture of a man pointing a handgun at the camera
an envelope self-addressed to Prokopovitz’s son Wesley Edges who still lives at the Kunesh Road property
a roll of tape
swabs of blood from the floors in a bedroom, kitchen, hallway and a pillow. The amount of blood found is not specified.
Investigators tell Target 2, Prokopovitz’s disappearance is still considered a missing persons case until they know otherwise. The warrant shows she had attempted suicide many years ago and that’s what James Prokopovitz told investigators he believed had happened.
The warrant also reveals other members of the family said James was “…unhappy about Victoria’s medical bills…”
Action 2 News spoke with James Prokopovitz by phone today. He says he willingly allowed investigators to search his property and said he would have let them do so without a warrant. He didn’t want to comment any further.