Detective Jeff Schreiner
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
I'm Jeff Schreiner. I was the missing persons detective for Newcastle County Police. When I was on the phone with Christine, the tone of her voice, the way she came across, she was very concerned. Being involved in these before, of parental fighting between divorced parents, I didn't go overboard. They were supposed to be back on a Sunday, and now we're like into Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
It really didn't cause alarm to me, because I'd seen these cases before. The father either broke down, or sometimes they like to be a little spiteful and just not bring them back on time. But you could tell in her voice, she thought something was wrong.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
We started pulling credit card information and the last of anything we could find of his or the kids or Lenore Matusiewicz's existence was in North Carolina, where they stopped and got fuel with a credit card. That picture was starting to get painted. It didn't take many strokes on the canvas to tell me we got a bigger problem.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
David had upwards of a million dollars in cash when he took off. I've had other cases that I had the idea where they may be going or I had direction of travel or something like that. This one I had nothing plus a two-week head start plus our suspect with all this cash with him. We knew we had a need on a Haystack case.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
They've been in touch with him, but they're just lying to you. In all my years as a detective, I've never seen a case quite like this.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
Sie hat verkauft, dass es etwas war, das mehr als nur mein Vater mit seiner Ex-Wife zu spielen war. Also habe ich mich einfach weiterentwickelt. Ich bin durch die Umgebung gegangen. in Middletown, Delaware, wo sie lebten. Und offensichtlich gab es niemanden zu Hause. Ich habe mit einigen Nachbarn gesprochen. Und die Nachbarn sagten mir einige interessante Dinge, so weit, dass es im Juni war.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
Das ist eine kleine Gemeinschaft und die Leute wussten alle einander. Es gab keine Beweise, wo sie gehen würden, wenn sie ein Haus verkaufen würden. Es gab kein Verkaufssignal außerhalb des Hauses, also konnten die Nachbarn nicht verstehen, warum sie sich bewegen. Zumindest einer der Nachbarn sagte mir, dass sie es ungewöhnlich gefunden haben, dass es Mitte Juni war.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
We've started going through what I needed to do as an investigator, pulling banking information. I had spoken to Christine's attorney, Tim Hitchens, and Tim alerted us to a home equity line of credit that Christine's name was forged on.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
All that combined with that information that I was starting to develop, I eventually was able to get enough information to go to the prosecutor. Everything showed it's more than just him not coming home in time. Now that I have established a crime, I was able to then obtain a search warrant for the residents of Middletown, Delaware in September 2007.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
As soon as we pulled up, in the back was a swimming pool, it was all green. There was a car, I believe it was a Chevy Impala. It was backed in towards the garage door, didn't have any license plates on it. The house for somebody who's an eye doctor was very disheveled from the outside alone. Once inside, Es war ziemlich leer. Es gab Trash in der Küchentasche.
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Es gab ein bisschen Furniture im Zentrum der Wohnzimmer, aber es war ziemlich sauber.
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The most interesting thing I found is when I went to the fireplace. And it was nothing but ashes, except the only thing that did not burn war David und Christine's divorce papers. Oh, there was something bitter with this. Really bitter now.
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Thomas und Amy waren von ihm nicht besorgt. Zu dem Zeitpunkt war alles Hand auf Hand. Wir wussten, dass wir einen Niedel im Haze-Deck-Kreis hatten.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
I reached out to Thomas. I could never track him down, so I actually left my number for him to call me. Eventually he did call me. I spoke to him. He seemed overconfident in himself. Kind of cocky, like, you know, like, I'm smarter than you. Das war ein roter Flagg. Er hatte meinen Anruf, er hätte mich tausendmal genannt. Ich meine, als interessierter Großvater.
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Ep.2: The Root of Evil
Wir sind nach New Jersey gefahren und haben Amy face-to-face getroffen. Amy war nicht so gut wie Brash. Sie war, äh, sie war, sie war das Gegenteil von Thomas. Amy versuchte, mehr auf der Erde zu sein und freundlicher, ich glaube, man könnte das Wort benutzen. Tom war ein Puppet.