Narrative - will keep editing with updates:
Nothing prepared, taking questions:
1) how is family after "foul play" suggestion? A. We knew this since day 1, now case is being elevated we might get more answers. Famliy rollercoaster of emotions. Hope disappointment. Keeping busy to do what they can to help sheriff.
2) Now it's a criminal investigation does that diminish hopes of finding alive? A. We knew there was foul play from the get-go, no reason they wouldn't contact us. Not the kind of people to disappear.
3) Family frustrated with police effort? Yes, they wont give us much information, share more with us, but realise it's the nature of the situation
4) Hope they found something in the car. House hasn't been thoroughly searched although officers have been in their room.
5) Nothing makes sense, wasn't happy to say what he thinks, they all come up with scenarios in the evenings
6) Proximity of house to drug route - is that part of your thinking? Yes, it's a possibility, not fun to think about, lot of traffic through valley, lot of bad people around here. Nothing T&M would do to bring them into contact with these people.
7) 2 sides of family - is that a problem in the house? No in constant contact with Tina's siblings.
8) Been advised not to increase reward significantly in case situation is a kidnapping or ransom - would delay their return. By "some private investigators". No reason to believe it is or isn't a kidnapping.
9) Tina did some work for Tom across the street, she was running an errand for him that morning (Monday) to Mesa
10) Tina's purse is in the room. The item she was supposed to deliver for Tom in Mesa was still in her purse (!!!) We don't think she left the house.
11) Mike on long-term disability, airline pilot
12) Sunday night activity: All gathered for Father's Day, nothing suspicious, people present were well-known to the family
13) Tina came into inheritance, not that much, were going to use it on downpayment on mobile home on lot next door
14) 2 families live on the lot, referred to it as a "compound", plus grandmother
15) Who was last to see T&M Sunday night? A: One of the family, probably in the kitchen, he'd gone to bed at 22:30, doesn't know who saw them last
16) PI hired by Tina's brother - he's made some "disparaging suppositions about might what might have happened" and we don't like the light he is trying to cast
17) Search will continue, have covered vast amounts of desert, still have things to checkout & re-check
18) Not going into the valley as it's a "dangerous area" - border patrol & county sheriff searching there
19) Maybe they were in "the wrong place at the wrong time"
20) Have been approached by PI's but have not hired any
21) Lived in same house with them for 2 years, don't think drugs have anything to do with it
22) Sheriff press conference at 7am tomorrow
23) Bottom line - lets get answers, get them home
24) Misper to Criminal Investigation shift - not a surprise but an excitement - hope it expidites the case
25) No-one living in the area that makes him fearful from saying anything beneficial to the investigation
26) On Father's Day - friend José Valenzuela was interested in Mike's skills as a pilot
27) Is everyone being truthful & co-operative? A: everyone in this house is, don't know who else they have interviewed
I may have missed a question at the end - apologies if so - but I think I got most of the interview
