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NANCY GRACE
Police Expand Search for Missing 911 Dispatcher
Aired March 30, 2007 - 20:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, day nine -- a lady 911 dispatcher vanishes, clocks out for the day. No one on the force has seen her again, her car found still parked at the home she once shared with her estranged husband, he a veteran police sergeant himself, the couple on the verge of divorce. Tonight, we piece together the clues left behind. Where is Theresa Parker?
GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us tonight. First, the desperate search for a lady police 911 dispatcher.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Forty-one-year-old Theresa Parker visited her sister last Wednesday night. That`s the last time anyone saw her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I believe Saturday morning, she was reported missing to the Walker County sheriff`s office by her mother.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Parker`s husband is Sergeant Sam Parker with the Lafayette Police Department.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Theresa Parker and her husband were in the process of separating. She`d already found another place to live. The morning of her disappearance, Sam Parker went fishing with a friend. He told police he never called to report her missing because he believed she`d already moved out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police say no one has been ruled out as a suspect.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They also say that Sergeant Parker has cooperated fully and answered all questions during at least three interviews.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re still looking a the missing person, at this point. There`s no conclusive evidence that would point to anything as foul play.
GRACE: What? She`s been gone nine straight days. Nobody in her family has heard for her and she`s not reporting to work. I don`t know what they mean by no foul play, but this police 911 dispatcher has been missing nine straight days, her car found parked there at the home she once shared with her estranged husband, he also a veteran sergeant on the police force. This is all that`s left. Theresa Parker -- tonight, we put together the clues to see what we can determine.
To investigative reporter Nicole Partin. Nicole, what can you tell me?
NICOLE PARTIN, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Good evening, Nancy. What we know so far is that, yes, indeed, Theresa was with her family member, her sister, on Wednesday evening. At around 10:00 o`clock, she left, stating that she was going to her newly rented apartment. She was moving out from the family home. And that was the last contact that anyone had from her.
Early Thursday morning, reports are that her husband went to the family home. She was sleeping there. He left her and went fishing. But she hasn`t been seen or heard from since late Wednesday evening.
GRACE: Thank you, Nicole. Let`s go out to a special guest joining us tonight. It is Sheriff Steve Wilson in the Walker County sheriff`s office. Sheriff, thank you for being with us.
SHERIFF STEVE WILSON, WALKER COUNTY, GEORGIA: Good to be with you.
GRACE: Sheriff, can I ask you a few quick questions? What time was she last seen by her sister?
WILSON: She was last seen on March the 21st, the evening of March the 21st around 9:00 PM. And then later that night, we know that there was a phone call made to the sister shortly after 10:00 PM.
GRACE: Now, see, that`s what I find very, very interesting, Sheriff, because it`s my understanding that Theresa Parker left her sister`s to go to Theresa`s new apartment. It wasn`t ready for her to move into. She was going over there to do some cleaning and arranging, and said she`d go home around 12:00 o`clock.
It`s also my understanding that a neighbor at the apartment area saw her around 10:15. But the phone call you`re referring to, didn`t that come from the home she once shared with her estranged husband?
WILSON: No. I think you`re mistaken on that. There may have been a phone call from the home, and we`re looking into that also, but I -- but we`re sure that there was also the phone call from Theresa`s cell phone to her sister`s home somewhere around that Same time.
GRACE: Did she actually speak to her sister?
WILSON: Yes. Her sister I believe had just fell asleep and spoke to her briefly.
GRACE: And was she still at her apartment, cleaning it up and working on it?
WILSON: That is what we believe from the interviews. That`s right.
GRACE: OK. Now, so what I asked you to start with, that other phone call I`m talking about, according to the sister, it came up on caller ID from the home -- not the apartment, the home.
WILSON: That`s correct.
GRACE: Who else could get into that home? It wasn`t the sister.
WILSON: Well, we know that Sam Parker was living there, also. He was there during this period of time that we`re -- that you`re questioning about.
GRACE: Oh, I thought he had moved into his father`s home.
WILSON: Well, he was -- he had. It`s quite confusing for someone that hasn`t been tracking it each day. He had actually moved out into his father`s home, his mother and father`s home in the town south of us here. But he was coming and going, the term we would use here, I guess, in the marital home. So he had access still to the marital home.
GRACE: I wonder why he would have been calling the sister after 10:00 o`clock at night.
WILSON: Well, that`s a good question. And you know, that`s some of the things that the investigators have talked with him about. He has been cooperative up to this point, I believe a total of about three different sit-down interviews with him, and he has so far cooperated with...
GRACE: Good to know. Good to know.
WILSON: ... the GBI.
GRACE: And I want to point out that the husband, the estranged husband, is not a suspect. I also want to ask you this -- Sheriff Steve Wilson joining us from Walker County sheriff`s office. Sheriff, isn`t it true that the following morning, he`s back over at the marital home at around 6:00 AM?
WILSON: We know that -- we know that he placed a phone call to his fishing buddy around 7:30 that morning, so we know that he was there on his own statement and the fact that he made a phone call from there around 7:15 to 7:30 that morning. The calls (ph) he had had plans from the day before to go fishing with a buddy.
GRACE: Right. Why was he back at the home that early in the morning?
WILSON: Well, that`s where the boat was. In his own admission, he had to come back and get his pickup truck and boat that was there at that time.
GRACE: Well, sheriff, I`m sure he wasn`t going to find his boat in the living room floor. Why was he in the home, using the telephone?
WILSON: Well, because he had access to that home. He was, as I said, still sharing that home to a certain degree with Theresa Parker.
GRACE: Now, it`s also my understanding he goes in, and the door to her bedroom is shut. He says he doesn`t want to disturb her. Her car is parked in the front, I guess, of the home, but parked at the home. Yes?
WILSON: That is his story, yes.
GRACE: OK. Now, tell me about the search, Sheriff. When was she actually reported missing?
WILSON: She was reported missing to the Walker County sheriff`s office last Saturday morning around 9:00 AM. And shortly thereafter, we began a very intensive investigation, a very intensive search for her that led throughout the day Saturday. And then around 5:30 or so Saturday afternoon, I contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and asked them - - and I asked them and requested of them to join forces with us and actually to take over this investigation. And they have done so since around last Saturday.
GRACE: So Sheriff, since the time she was last seen around 9:00 PM by her sister on the 21st, how many days passed before a search was mounted, before she was formally reported missing?
WILSON: Yes. Well, she had -- Theresa had talked with her mother and her sister, and they knew that she was off these days, she was off from work, her regular scheduled days off, and that she was going to be moving. She was going to be coming and going to the new apartment. So they did not think, really, much about her not speaking to them on Thursday. On Friday, they did become somewhat suspicious because Theresa had normally communicated with them on almost a daily basis, or at least every other day. So on Friday, they did become, you know, worried about her not answering phone calls, not calling her, and...
GRACE: So when was she reported, Saturday?
WILSON: She was reported early Saturday morning.
GRACE: OK.
WILSON: So we`re really looking at two full days.
GRACE: Two full days.
Out to you, Detective Lieutenant Steve Rogers with the Nutley Police Department, former FBI terrorism task force. Those first 72 hours, so critical. Why?
DET. LT. STEVE ROGERS, NUTLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT: Well, they`re very critical because that`s when information is very fresh in the minds of any witnesses and even possible suspects. Sounds like, Nancy, that the sheriff`s department`s doing an excellent methodological investigation in this case, starting at ground zero, which would be with the husband. And Nancy, you said something or alluded to something a little earlier, the foul play theory. I believe police are focusing on that track, although they`re not saying it.
GRACE: Well put. Let`s go to the lines. Carol in Massachusetts. Hi, Carol.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. Love your show.
GRACE: Thank you, dear.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just wondering if her purse or cell phone have been found.
WILSON: My question, exactly. To you, Sheriff Steve Wilson. The sheriff is joining from the Walker County sheriff`s office. Everybody, if you`re just tuning in, we are helping to look for Theresa Parker. This is the lady police dispatcher, a 911 dispatcher, who`s now missing, day nine. Highly unusual. This lady never misses work, never goes this long without being in touch with her family.
What can you tell me, Sheriff, about her cell phone, her pocketbook, her credit cards?
WILSON: Well, the pocketbook and the cell phone have not been located. I wanted to clear that up. Some of the news agencies had reported the cell phone had been located. But what we have done is, we have -- with the technology that`s available today from the wireless providers, we have been able to track the actual cell phone to the last time it was used. And we have a general area that we`re going to be looking at tomorrow. We have a massive search that`s going to come under way tomorrow. We`re hoping that that search, which will cover approximately 40 square miles, will, you know, at least give us some hope, some leads to finding Theresa.
GRACE: You know, that`s an interesting question, Sheriff. With the process of triangulation, I thought you could pinpoint it down to a couple of blocks where the last call was made.
WILSON: Well, we -- the technology is there. I know that it is there, but in this particular -- with this service provider, in this area that we are looking at, we are being told that they can give us a general area but they cannot bring it down to that city block that we surely hoped for.
GRACE: Now, why is that, Sheriff? If the technology`s there, why can`t they do it?
WILSON: Well, that`s something you would have to ask that wireless -- that particular wireless provider. I do not know the answer to that.
GRACE: What about it, Detective Lieutenant Steve Rogers? It can, and we have seen it, hone in on a cell phone call within a couple of blocks. I know that for a fact.
ROGERS: Oh, yes. Sure, it`s a fact. We`ve had that with our own police department triangulating through Internet service providers or cell phone providers, the exact location. Perhaps in the sheriff`s locality, there are not enough cell phone towers...
GRACE: Ah. Yes.
ROGERS: ... to do what we do here in the city.
GRACE: Very possible. Take a listen to this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Forty-one-year-old Theresa Parker visited her sister last Wednesday night. That`s the last time anyone saw her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Early Saturday morning, she was reported missing to the Walker County sheriff`s office by her mother.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Parker`s husband is Sergeant Sam Parker with the Lafayette Police Department. Theresa Parker and her husband were in the process of separating. She already found another place to live. The morning of her disappearance, Sam Parker went fishing with a friend. He told police he never called to report her missing because he believed she`d already moved out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Forty-one-year-old Theresa Parker one of the first 911 dispatchers hired in Walker County 15 years ago. Those close to her knew her 14-year marriage to Lafayette police officer Sergeant Sam Parker was ending. She was moving out. She went to visit her sister last Wednesday night, and that`s the last time she was seen. Her mother called to report her missing Saturday. Sam Parker told police he thought she`d already moved out and that`s why he didn`t report her missing.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Hold on just a moment! To you -- back to Sheriff Steve Wilson with the Walker County sheriff`s office. He actually said that he thought his wife had already moved out?
WILSON: Well, that`s the statement that he gave to investigators. His story was that he was in and out of this marital home, and he knew that she was in the process of moving to the next town. And that`s the statement he gave, yes.
GRACE: Well, if she thought she`d already moved out, then why was her car parked there and he didn`t go into the bedroom when he said that the bedroom door was shut, he didn`t want to disturb her?
WILSON: I think that`s an excellent question.
GRACE: OK. OK. I hear you loud and clear. Sheriff, question. Did he take the boat back to the home?
WILSON: Yes, he did. Yes, after the fishing trip ended on Thursday afternoon, he did return back to that home.
GRACE: And her car was still sitting there?
WILSON: Yes, it was.
GRACE: And the bedroom door was still closed?
WILSON: Yes, it was, according to his statement.
GRACE: And he didn`t call police?
WILSON: No, he did not.
GRACE: Has this guy taken a polygraph?
WILSON: He has not, at this point.
GRACE: Has he been asked to take a polygraph?
WILSON: Yes, he has.
GRACE: Has he said yes or no?
WILSON: Well, that`s -- I do not want to comment on that because I`m -- I don`t want to go into areas of evidence that might jeopardize the integrity...
GRACE: Has the polygraph been set up? Has it been arranged yet?
WILSON: No, it has not.
GRACE: All right. Let`s go out to Chloe Morrison with the "Chattooga Times Free Press." On the other hand, this guy`s not a suspect and it is said he is cooperating with police. In what way?
CHLOE MORRISON, "CHATTOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS": Well, his sister gave the statement today that he has, you know, given up his home and his car for searching. They searched all around his house, searched -- you know, photographed and examined his body and just looked for physical evidence all around the car and his house.
GRACE: Let`s unleash the lawyers. To Mickey Sherman and John Burris, both veteran trial lawyers, Sherman in New York, Burris in San Francisco. To you, John Burris. You can get a warrant to take pictures of somebody`s body or to pluck hair, to get a voice Sample, to get a DNA Sample. You know, you don`t really have to have cooperation. You can get that through a search warrant, right, John?
Police Expand Search for Missing 911 Dispatcher
Aired March 30, 2007 - 20:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, day nine -- a lady 911 dispatcher vanishes, clocks out for the day. No one on the force has seen her again, her car found still parked at the home she once shared with her estranged husband, he a veteran police sergeant himself, the couple on the verge of divorce. Tonight, we piece together the clues left behind. Where is Theresa Parker?
GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us tonight. First, the desperate search for a lady police 911 dispatcher.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Forty-one-year-old Theresa Parker visited her sister last Wednesday night. That`s the last time anyone saw her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I believe Saturday morning, she was reported missing to the Walker County sheriff`s office by her mother.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Parker`s husband is Sergeant Sam Parker with the Lafayette Police Department.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Theresa Parker and her husband were in the process of separating. She`d already found another place to live. The morning of her disappearance, Sam Parker went fishing with a friend. He told police he never called to report her missing because he believed she`d already moved out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police say no one has been ruled out as a suspect.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They also say that Sergeant Parker has cooperated fully and answered all questions during at least three interviews.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re still looking a the missing person, at this point. There`s no conclusive evidence that would point to anything as foul play.
GRACE: What? She`s been gone nine straight days. Nobody in her family has heard for her and she`s not reporting to work. I don`t know what they mean by no foul play, but this police 911 dispatcher has been missing nine straight days, her car found parked there at the home she once shared with her estranged husband, he also a veteran sergeant on the police force. This is all that`s left. Theresa Parker -- tonight, we put together the clues to see what we can determine.
To investigative reporter Nicole Partin. Nicole, what can you tell me?
NICOLE PARTIN, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Good evening, Nancy. What we know so far is that, yes, indeed, Theresa was with her family member, her sister, on Wednesday evening. At around 10:00 o`clock, she left, stating that she was going to her newly rented apartment. She was moving out from the family home. And that was the last contact that anyone had from her.
Early Thursday morning, reports are that her husband went to the family home. She was sleeping there. He left her and went fishing. But she hasn`t been seen or heard from since late Wednesday evening.
GRACE: Thank you, Nicole. Let`s go out to a special guest joining us tonight. It is Sheriff Steve Wilson in the Walker County sheriff`s office. Sheriff, thank you for being with us.
SHERIFF STEVE WILSON, WALKER COUNTY, GEORGIA: Good to be with you.
GRACE: Sheriff, can I ask you a few quick questions? What time was she last seen by her sister?
WILSON: She was last seen on March the 21st, the evening of March the 21st around 9:00 PM. And then later that night, we know that there was a phone call made to the sister shortly after 10:00 PM.
GRACE: Now, see, that`s what I find very, very interesting, Sheriff, because it`s my understanding that Theresa Parker left her sister`s to go to Theresa`s new apartment. It wasn`t ready for her to move into. She was going over there to do some cleaning and arranging, and said she`d go home around 12:00 o`clock.
It`s also my understanding that a neighbor at the apartment area saw her around 10:15. But the phone call you`re referring to, didn`t that come from the home she once shared with her estranged husband?
WILSON: No. I think you`re mistaken on that. There may have been a phone call from the home, and we`re looking into that also, but I -- but we`re sure that there was also the phone call from Theresa`s cell phone to her sister`s home somewhere around that Same time.
GRACE: Did she actually speak to her sister?
WILSON: Yes. Her sister I believe had just fell asleep and spoke to her briefly.
GRACE: And was she still at her apartment, cleaning it up and working on it?
WILSON: That is what we believe from the interviews. That`s right.
GRACE: OK. Now, so what I asked you to start with, that other phone call I`m talking about, according to the sister, it came up on caller ID from the home -- not the apartment, the home.
WILSON: That`s correct.
GRACE: Who else could get into that home? It wasn`t the sister.
WILSON: Well, we know that Sam Parker was living there, also. He was there during this period of time that we`re -- that you`re questioning about.
GRACE: Oh, I thought he had moved into his father`s home.
WILSON: Well, he was -- he had. It`s quite confusing for someone that hasn`t been tracking it each day. He had actually moved out into his father`s home, his mother and father`s home in the town south of us here. But he was coming and going, the term we would use here, I guess, in the marital home. So he had access still to the marital home.
GRACE: I wonder why he would have been calling the sister after 10:00 o`clock at night.
WILSON: Well, that`s a good question. And you know, that`s some of the things that the investigators have talked with him about. He has been cooperative up to this point, I believe a total of about three different sit-down interviews with him, and he has so far cooperated with...
GRACE: Good to know. Good to know.
WILSON: ... the GBI.
GRACE: And I want to point out that the husband, the estranged husband, is not a suspect. I also want to ask you this -- Sheriff Steve Wilson joining us from Walker County sheriff`s office. Sheriff, isn`t it true that the following morning, he`s back over at the marital home at around 6:00 AM?
WILSON: We know that -- we know that he placed a phone call to his fishing buddy around 7:30 that morning, so we know that he was there on his own statement and the fact that he made a phone call from there around 7:15 to 7:30 that morning. The calls (ph) he had had plans from the day before to go fishing with a buddy.
GRACE: Right. Why was he back at the home that early in the morning?
WILSON: Well, that`s where the boat was. In his own admission, he had to come back and get his pickup truck and boat that was there at that time.
GRACE: Well, sheriff, I`m sure he wasn`t going to find his boat in the living room floor. Why was he in the home, using the telephone?
WILSON: Well, because he had access to that home. He was, as I said, still sharing that home to a certain degree with Theresa Parker.
GRACE: Now, it`s also my understanding he goes in, and the door to her bedroom is shut. He says he doesn`t want to disturb her. Her car is parked in the front, I guess, of the home, but parked at the home. Yes?
WILSON: That is his story, yes.
GRACE: OK. Now, tell me about the search, Sheriff. When was she actually reported missing?
WILSON: She was reported missing to the Walker County sheriff`s office last Saturday morning around 9:00 AM. And shortly thereafter, we began a very intensive investigation, a very intensive search for her that led throughout the day Saturday. And then around 5:30 or so Saturday afternoon, I contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and asked them - - and I asked them and requested of them to join forces with us and actually to take over this investigation. And they have done so since around last Saturday.
GRACE: So Sheriff, since the time she was last seen around 9:00 PM by her sister on the 21st, how many days passed before a search was mounted, before she was formally reported missing?
WILSON: Yes. Well, she had -- Theresa had talked with her mother and her sister, and they knew that she was off these days, she was off from work, her regular scheduled days off, and that she was going to be moving. She was going to be coming and going to the new apartment. So they did not think, really, much about her not speaking to them on Thursday. On Friday, they did become somewhat suspicious because Theresa had normally communicated with them on almost a daily basis, or at least every other day. So on Friday, they did become, you know, worried about her not answering phone calls, not calling her, and...
GRACE: So when was she reported, Saturday?
WILSON: She was reported early Saturday morning.
GRACE: OK.
WILSON: So we`re really looking at two full days.
GRACE: Two full days.
Out to you, Detective Lieutenant Steve Rogers with the Nutley Police Department, former FBI terrorism task force. Those first 72 hours, so critical. Why?
DET. LT. STEVE ROGERS, NUTLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT: Well, they`re very critical because that`s when information is very fresh in the minds of any witnesses and even possible suspects. Sounds like, Nancy, that the sheriff`s department`s doing an excellent methodological investigation in this case, starting at ground zero, which would be with the husband. And Nancy, you said something or alluded to something a little earlier, the foul play theory. I believe police are focusing on that track, although they`re not saying it.
GRACE: Well put. Let`s go to the lines. Carol in Massachusetts. Hi, Carol.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. Love your show.
GRACE: Thank you, dear.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just wondering if her purse or cell phone have been found.
WILSON: My question, exactly. To you, Sheriff Steve Wilson. The sheriff is joining from the Walker County sheriff`s office. Everybody, if you`re just tuning in, we are helping to look for Theresa Parker. This is the lady police dispatcher, a 911 dispatcher, who`s now missing, day nine. Highly unusual. This lady never misses work, never goes this long without being in touch with her family.
What can you tell me, Sheriff, about her cell phone, her pocketbook, her credit cards?
WILSON: Well, the pocketbook and the cell phone have not been located. I wanted to clear that up. Some of the news agencies had reported the cell phone had been located. But what we have done is, we have -- with the technology that`s available today from the wireless providers, we have been able to track the actual cell phone to the last time it was used. And we have a general area that we`re going to be looking at tomorrow. We have a massive search that`s going to come under way tomorrow. We`re hoping that that search, which will cover approximately 40 square miles, will, you know, at least give us some hope, some leads to finding Theresa.
GRACE: You know, that`s an interesting question, Sheriff. With the process of triangulation, I thought you could pinpoint it down to a couple of blocks where the last call was made.
WILSON: Well, we -- the technology is there. I know that it is there, but in this particular -- with this service provider, in this area that we are looking at, we are being told that they can give us a general area but they cannot bring it down to that city block that we surely hoped for.
GRACE: Now, why is that, Sheriff? If the technology`s there, why can`t they do it?
WILSON: Well, that`s something you would have to ask that wireless -- that particular wireless provider. I do not know the answer to that.
GRACE: What about it, Detective Lieutenant Steve Rogers? It can, and we have seen it, hone in on a cell phone call within a couple of blocks. I know that for a fact.
ROGERS: Oh, yes. Sure, it`s a fact. We`ve had that with our own police department triangulating through Internet service providers or cell phone providers, the exact location. Perhaps in the sheriff`s locality, there are not enough cell phone towers...
GRACE: Ah. Yes.
ROGERS: ... to do what we do here in the city.
GRACE: Very possible. Take a listen to this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Forty-one-year-old Theresa Parker visited her sister last Wednesday night. That`s the last time anyone saw her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Early Saturday morning, she was reported missing to the Walker County sheriff`s office by her mother.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Parker`s husband is Sergeant Sam Parker with the Lafayette Police Department. Theresa Parker and her husband were in the process of separating. She already found another place to live. The morning of her disappearance, Sam Parker went fishing with a friend. He told police he never called to report her missing because he believed she`d already moved out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Forty-one-year-old Theresa Parker one of the first 911 dispatchers hired in Walker County 15 years ago. Those close to her knew her 14-year marriage to Lafayette police officer Sergeant Sam Parker was ending. She was moving out. She went to visit her sister last Wednesday night, and that`s the last time she was seen. Her mother called to report her missing Saturday. Sam Parker told police he thought she`d already moved out and that`s why he didn`t report her missing.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Hold on just a moment! To you -- back to Sheriff Steve Wilson with the Walker County sheriff`s office. He actually said that he thought his wife had already moved out?
WILSON: Well, that`s the statement that he gave to investigators. His story was that he was in and out of this marital home, and he knew that she was in the process of moving to the next town. And that`s the statement he gave, yes.
GRACE: Well, if she thought she`d already moved out, then why was her car parked there and he didn`t go into the bedroom when he said that the bedroom door was shut, he didn`t want to disturb her?
WILSON: I think that`s an excellent question.
GRACE: OK. OK. I hear you loud and clear. Sheriff, question. Did he take the boat back to the home?
WILSON: Yes, he did. Yes, after the fishing trip ended on Thursday afternoon, he did return back to that home.
GRACE: And her car was still sitting there?
WILSON: Yes, it was.
GRACE: And the bedroom door was still closed?
WILSON: Yes, it was, according to his statement.
GRACE: And he didn`t call police?
WILSON: No, he did not.
GRACE: Has this guy taken a polygraph?
WILSON: He has not, at this point.
GRACE: Has he been asked to take a polygraph?
WILSON: Yes, he has.
GRACE: Has he said yes or no?
WILSON: Well, that`s -- I do not want to comment on that because I`m -- I don`t want to go into areas of evidence that might jeopardize the integrity...
GRACE: Has the polygraph been set up? Has it been arranged yet?
WILSON: No, it has not.
GRACE: All right. Let`s go out to Chloe Morrison with the "Chattooga Times Free Press." On the other hand, this guy`s not a suspect and it is said he is cooperating with police. In what way?
CHLOE MORRISON, "CHATTOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS": Well, his sister gave the statement today that he has, you know, given up his home and his car for searching. They searched all around his house, searched -- you know, photographed and examined his body and just looked for physical evidence all around the car and his house.
GRACE: Let`s unleash the lawyers. To Mickey Sherman and John Burris, both veteran trial lawyers, Sherman in New York, Burris in San Francisco. To you, John Burris. You can get a warrant to take pictures of somebody`s body or to pluck hair, to get a voice Sample, to get a DNA Sample. You know, you don`t really have to have cooperation. You can get that through a search warrant, right, John?