This pisses me off to no end. Let's find this
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Here's a timeline best I can figure:
- Tues 4/25 10AM - Officer Martin leaves house. Texts with his wife throughout the day.
- Tues 4/25 11AM - Martin withdrew $300 cash, bought gas 11:15AM, purchased raft at Academy store in Austin
- Tues 4/25 - time/location undetermined - bought rope and concrete blocks from Home Depot
- Tues 4/25 2:19PM - purchased HP tablet (wifi capable) at Best Buy in Austin
- Tues 4/25 3:50PM - purchased food at Wendy's in Live Oak
- Tues 4/25 6PM - Martin's truck stopped by DPS on US Hwy 90 near Uvalde. Martin told the trooper he was on his way to Mexico for a vacation. The trooper saw bags in his vehicle and noted there was no indication that Martin was in crisis.
- Tues 4/25 PM - Martin arrives Lake Amistad. Parks truck, stages scene with raft and concrete blocks. Rode bicycle to convenience store, threw his bicycle in a dumpster behind the store. When interviewed the store clerk remembered Martins statement that he rode his bicycle from the lake as odd and that he appeared sweaty.
- Tues 4/25 10:15PM - Martin sends wife text email message of a photo of a handwritten note saying he was going to commit suicide and drown himself in a lake near the border of Mexico. Investigators later found the email was sent from an IP address located in Mexico. (Possible he was still on US side?)
- Tues 4/25 - Martin's wife calls 911 to report that her husband was suicidal.
- Tues 4/25 10:56PM - Martin calls cab to pick him up at convenience store and take him to border crossing. ARTICLE STATES THIS WAS WED, BUT SURELY THEY MEANT TUES???
- Tues 4/25 11:50PM - detectives with APDs Homicide Cold Case/Missing Persons Unit were called to the house to help with the investigation.
- Tues 4/25 - BOLO is issued for Martin
- Wed 4/26 7AM - law enforcement with the Lake Amistad National Recreation Area reported Martins truck had been found near the lake
- Wed 4/26 - A raft was found on the shore a few miles from where Martin's vehicle was parked. Martin's date of birth and date of death (4/25/17) along with his initials and his wife's initials were written on the raft. Investigators also found the remnants of a concrete block and scrapes on the raft that indicated that a block had been pushed over the side. Investigators began to search the lake for Martin's body.
- Wed 4/26 - Investigators discovered that Martin had a close relationship with a woman other than his wife.
- Wed 4/26 - Investigators accessed Martins email account and learned the suicidal message had been sent to his wife Tuesday night at around 10:30 p.m. However, the IP address that accessed the email account was located in Mexico. After 14 hours of searching Wednesday, the agencies ended their search at Lake Amistad for the day and resumed the search Thursday morning.
- Wed 4/26 or Thurs 4/27 - Once in Mexico, Martin said in an email from an alternate email address that he took a bus toward the interior of the country.
- Thurs 4/27 4:15PM - investigators interviewed the woman and she provided evidence that Martin was still alive and the entire event had been an attempt to fake his own death. She showed investigators an email that Martin sent her after the alleged suicide telling her that it was a success.
http://www.kens5.com/news/local/police-searching-for-missing-apd-officer/435107146
http://kxan.com/2017/04/28/missing-austin-police-officer-believed-to-have-staged-his-own-death/
