Dark Side Of The Mesa

Now, even Michael's mother-in-law, Marilyn Conway, was beginning to have questions. She agreed to help investigators by leaving Michael a series of phone messages. Michael never responded, but investigator King was sure Michael was capable of murdering his wife and daughter.

Five months after Jennifer and Abby disappeared, volunteer searchers fanned out over the highlands and rivers around Grand Junction.

King says that over a period of 11 days, 200 volunteers searched 45 miles around the Blagg residence.

But Michael wasn't among the volunteers who looked for his family.

He says that officers told him not to go on the search. "They said as a potential suspect, they just thought that it would be bad for me to be out there. And so, I was barred from being able to search for my daughter and wife," Michael explains.

By the spring of 2002, no bodies had been found, but Michael was now a suspect.

And King had a working theory: "He shoots his wife. My belief is that he went upstairs and suffocated his daughter, got the tent out of the garage, put Jennifer in that tent, put them both in the van and went to Ametek Dixson, and put both of them in the trash receptacle there."

But if Michael had put Jennifer's body in his company's dumpster, then her remains should have ended up in the county landfill. Using global positioning technology and landfill logs, a grid system was set up, zeroing in on quadrants where investigators believed they would find trash from Michael's company.

Finally, after 16 days of searching, they found Jennifer's body. Authorities wasted no time, and arrested Michael two days later, at his mother's home in Georgia.

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[tariakpodiete]

- as the story started, if wondered if he could be innocent, especially since the spouse is the one who is looked at first, but here's what sealed his guilt for me:
1. they found the wife's body in the landfill, not just by accident and looking here and there willy nilly, but by consulting dumping logs showing where the giant garbage bins from his workplace were emptied
2. the small amounts of his wife's blood in the family van, especially since they were in the sorts of places where a wrapped body being put into a vehicle might come in contact with, and wrapped would explain how there was no blood trail from the bedroom even though a massive amount of blood was left in the bed
3. when the reporter asked him if he was going to testify in his own defense, and he said "we'll have to see" - not exactly that he said that (as it is his constitutional right not to take the stand), BUT that a second or two after he said it, he gave a tiny smirk (a lot like the smirk that preacher's wife gave right after she heard she was acquitted of killing him)
- nice for his sister and mom to stick by him, but sorry, your beloved brother and son is a cold-blooded murdering scumbag, and not the sweet seeming little kid you once knew.
- i didn't give a lot of weight to the video of his interrogation, although it did bother me a bit that he put his hands behind his head and leaned back as if he hadn't a care in the world. frankly, many people don't act as some think they should when they're under duress (including people later found to be innocent),
- let's not forget that this guy was a helicopter pilot in the military; in other words, he's been trained to be cool under terrible stress, and so could come off cold and unfeeling when all he's really done is revert to his training, something that often kicks in automatically