March 24, 2007
Dark Side Of The Mesa
Did Michael Blagg Murder His Wife And Daughter?
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Play CBS Video Video Dark Side Of The Mesa Did Michael Blagg - who seemed like the perfect husband - kill his wife and daughter? Correspondent Susan Spencer reports.
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Abby, Jennifer and Michael Blagg. (CBS)
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Michael Blagg came home from work to find a bloody bed and an empty jewelry box -- but no sign of his wife or daughter. (CBS)
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In 2002, the decomposed body of Jennifer Blagg was found wrapped in a plastic tent at a local landfill. (CBS)
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Jennifer and her six-year-old daughter, Abby, had been missing for seven months. (CBS)
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"I could see there was a large dark spot on the bed," recalls Michael. "I think maybe she's rolled off the bed and is on the ground on the other side, so I go to the other side of the bed and there's more blood on the floor, and running down the side of the bed. And so at this point, I know I have to call for help."
The 911 dispatcher told Michael to check the garage. The couple's minivan was still there, but it wasn't until the dispatcher asked about his daughter Abby that Michael finally checked her room and discovered she was gone, as well.
The story of a bloody bed, and a missing mother and child, rocked Grand Junction.
Sheriff's Investigator Steve King tried to make sense of a bloody and bewildering crime scene.
Jennifer's purse was on the dresser, the contents, including her keys to the van, spilled out. An e-mail from Michael, an apparent apology, was also found in the purse: "I would love to take some time to talk through the problems we are having. ...Do not give the devil a foothold."
Jennifer's empty jewelry box was also found on the carpet, near the blood-soaked bed.
"You're struck by the fact that there was all sorts of other things there that someone that is in there purely for monetary gain would have taken with them," says King. "So I'm saying, 'You know, this crime scene doesn't look right. It looks like it was staged.'"
"I had no idea what had happened," which is exactly what Michael repeatedly told officers that night in an intense interview. "I just knew that it was bad ...whatever it was, it was bad."
He didn't have a lawyer present. "But I saw a lot of blood," says Michael. "A lot of blood."
Michael admitted in measured tones that there were some rocky times, but his marriage to Jennifer was solid. King, however, found Michael's calm and collected manner strangely unsettling. "I said to him, 'If my wife and kid were missing, I would probably be at St. Mary's Hospital being medicated at this point because it's so stressful.'"
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