No, I was going to sign the title over to him , but I never heard from him again by phone and the emails I got probably were not from him but answered things I left on his voice mail.
I was told by the BV police that there were about 3 other calls on Eric's phone after he vanished. I was asked if I knew one of the people, but it was a Saginaw resident, so I would't know them. I was told FG said she didn't know the person either. I called information and was told the # and address could only be given to police. I had been told earlier the police went to the last known address and was told the person no longer lived there. Family always wondered by what police told us about that person if perhaps it was someone who might have traded something for the car.
We asked that polygraph tests be done early on and a paternity test be done. We were led to believe a polygraph would be done, but never was. It seemed we were a bother sometimes. We had a friend who had a friend with search dogs that wanted to search free. We put them in touch with the BV detective in charge and the man with the search team said he was led to believe he might be in trouble some way for searching when there was no permission. Like I've said, no one had asked the land owner's permission until family did. When MI State Police took the case they had the search done on the land and in the well and in the crawl space of the house, we were told.
Thank you. That would be nice.
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Neighbors told family there was always a yard full of people and cars and the pole barn in back was guarded like it had marijuana in it. There was some issue about a dog problem according to one of the neighbors we talked to. An obvious dog pen had been removed near the pole barn. The neighbor said the burn pile was always burning. According to police, the pole barn was used as storage for the video business. The property is about 4 acres, I think. We had asked police to look over the land because of metal pieces sticking up here and there under mounds of dirt. We might have been too trusting all along, but our family believes there was a search done by the state police. Lt Gary Thomas said they took dogs down into the well. Some experts at last year's Missing in MI forum advise us to have a second search done because sometimes a scent is harder for dogs to pick up in water, but the police said their expert did not agree. There is a huge drainage ditch in front of the house, but police said the water would have moved a car on out of the ditch. We were told the nearest body of water would have exposed a car when the water level went down. FG's husband told a family member that they owned property further up north and FG posted about trying to get Eric to come further north. I guess she was just referring to Saginaw, but her husband was not. I told the BV police that my son could be under that huge burn pile. I don't understand WHY there was not a search done IMMEDIATELY. We saw other things that caused us alarm. We couldn't get them to search at the time, so with the owners permission, our family did and took pictures. We were careful not to touch anything. We were told we could go into the house by the owner, but we decided it would not be wise. However, we might as well have gone in because nothing was searched until new rentals had moved in, so the house was never searched.
The prosecutor we met with was not reelected and he was on his way out. Family had called the prosecutor and asked for a meeting. We were discouraged by the lack of action with the BV police much of the time. Family had asked by email to meet the lead investigator earlier and he said he was going on vacation. So family asked to meet with his partner and he emailed back that his partner was doing road patrol work. So family asked to meet with whoever he was turning the case over to and we NEVER heard back again. Thus, the request to the prosecutor. He kindly said he would call the detective in charge and set up a meeting with himself, the detective and our family. We went there expecting such a meeting. The detective never came even though we knew he was in town and sent his partner instead. I've stated before, that partner said he knew very little about Eric's case. He brought nothing with him...no file...NOTHING. The family came with info and pictures that proved one statement by FG's family was not true. The partner asked where we got the pictures. He obviously had never seen them. We told him they were on Eric's FB. They did give us 3 hrs of their time, then one had to go Christmas shopping for his wife and one had to go out of town. A different prosecutor took office soon after we were there. I called to see if the out going prosecutor left Eric's info and the Assistant Prosecutor told me there was nothing on his desk, but he didn't know about the Prosecutor.(That was Nov. 2012)
Eric told me that FG's husband moved out of the house he shared with his wife and moved into an apt with a child from his first marriage. When asked by family member if that was true, he said I (with emphasis) didn't move out. Eric had said to me that FG's husband tried to get the house next door so he could be near his children. That is possible, because the house next door was empty then according to the current residents to family but I believe they said they bought it. This is the same house our family saw the obviously new satellite dish (remember Eric said they were getting one on the house he was painting and fixing up) and that house is a rural house like he said he was moving to. When I called the company whose name was on the satellite equipment, I was told FG had it installed. FG posted that if Eric wasn't going to help with water issues, she was going back home. We asked the owner of the property if there had been water issues at that house and she said yes. It was certainly enough to have the place searched.
