He goes missing, his wife marries his best friend (who also wrote his life insurance policy)

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this is Gator country<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> beautiful but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">treacherous stretch of swamp near</font> Tallahassee the blood runs cold and the powerful reptiles that<font color="#E5E5E5"> rule the water</font> here but is Mike<font color="#CCCCCC"> Williams the victim of</font> another<font color="#E5E5E5"> kind of cold-blooded killer</font> alligators<font color="#E5E5E5"> don't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just consume people</font> hold the glistening<font color="#CCCCCC"> waters of Florida's</font> Lake Seminole just outside<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> Tallahassee<font color="#CCCCCC"> had always been a favorite</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">spot for Michael</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a man who seemed to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it all a successful career</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in real</font> estate<font color="#CCCCCC"> a beautiful wife a sweet young</font> daughter and a longtime<font color="#CCCCCC"> love for duck</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">hunting</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> friends say Mike would grab any</font> chance to hunt<font color="#CCCCCC"> even if he had to sit</font> alone in<font color="#E5E5E5"> his boat on Seminole Lake it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was not unusual for Michael to go</font> hunting by himself then one December<font color="#E5E5E5"> morning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> whipping</font> cold front was tearing it to Tallahassee <font color="#CCCCCC">Mike grabs his shotgun</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and heads out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the lake a lot of ducks here</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a lot</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">dogs</font> what about<font color="#E5E5E5"> alligators</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there's alligators</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">too likes Emma know has quite yes here</font> Mike promises his adoring wife Denise <font color="#CCCCCC">he'll be back by noon</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after all it's a</font> special day<font color="#CCCCCC"> the loving couple is</font> celebrating their 6th wedding anniversary<font color="#CCCCCC"> I said so what are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you doing</font> this weekend he says Denise and I are having<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> wedding<font color="#E5E5E5"> anniversary</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we're gonna go down</font> to<font color="#CCCCCC"> it's a little bed-and-breakfast</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just kind of relax and kick back and I</font> said<font color="#CCCCCC"> sounds great I like Denise I</font> thought she was perfect<font color="#CCCCCC"> for Michael</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> gave her everything<font color="#CCCCCC"> gave her everything</font> she<font color="#CCCCCC"> wanted she doesn't have to work</font> after the baby was<font color="#E5E5E5"> born</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but it's well</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">past noon now</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mike</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hasn't returned</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> home</font> from his<font color="#E5E5E5"> hunting trip daylight curls</font> into darkening skies and<font color="#E5E5E5"> Denise becomes</font> frantic<font color="#E5E5E5"> he had a cell phone he was an</font> Internet she phones her dad and<font color="#E5E5E5"> friends</font> rendezvous at the<font color="#E5E5E5"> lake</font> Brian Winchester<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike's best buddy and</font> Denise's dad lead the desperate<font color="#E5E5E5"> search</font> at dusk<font color="#E5E5E5"> for her missing husband it was</font> still<font color="#CCCCCC"> very windy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> cold storm had just</font> blown<font color="#E5E5E5"> through the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> temperature plummeted</font> to 19 degrees which made searching very difficult<font color="#CCCCCC"> you got rain</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you've got extremely high winds</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Florida</font> Fish and<font color="#CCCCCC"> Wildlife officer</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> David Arnett</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was the first investigator called to the</font> scene and I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> told we had a missing</font> boater<font color="#CCCCCC"> on Lake Seminole the search is</font> called off for<font color="#CCCCCC"> the night but the next</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">day they get their</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> first break into</font> Mike's mysterious disappearance they find his boat<font color="#E5E5E5"> you're pretty certain that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is where he launched</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the boat yes</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">there's no</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> question about the boat being</font> launched here due<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fact that his</font> truck and trailer was right here also <font color="#CCCCCC">and where was the boat found from here</font> the boat was<font color="#CCCCCC"> found approximately</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 300</font> yards to<font color="#E5E5E5"> our right it was apparent that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it had been</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> launched by one individual</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> way the boat had been turned around</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> apparently pushed out Mike's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shotgun</font> was there still in its case there was some decoys on top of some other <font color="#CCCCCC">equipment</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but there was no Mike</font> search and rescue divers<font color="#E5E5E5"> choppers and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">hundreds of hours of manpower by law</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">enforcement</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> agencies over weeks then</font> months<font color="#E5E5E5"> are spent scouring the lake</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">looking for Mike hoping by some miracle</font> he's still alive<font color="#CCCCCC"> but tragically</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> became all too clear<font color="#E5E5E5"> at that point it</font> seemed to be<font color="#E5E5E5"> a more</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of a recovery type</font> search than<font color="#E5E5E5"> than looking for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> somebody</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">who was in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> distress</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and they were</font> treating this as an<font color="#CCCCCC"> accident Mike had</font> fallen over<font color="#E5E5E5"> Florida Fish and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Wildlife</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">investigators believed he had been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">pulled under by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the weight</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of his</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fisherman's waders</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and drowned in the</font> shallow depths of alligator infested waters when you arrived<font color="#CCCCCC"> here did you</font> think it was anything<font color="#CCCCCC"> but a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hunter who</font> fell in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the water</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> no not at all</font> everything indicated that the boater<font color="#E5E5E5"> had</font> fell out of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the boat</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and possibly</font> drowned there was no other indication<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">anything else</font> but that<font color="#E5E5E5"> just didn't hold water with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mike's grieving mom</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> don't have a body</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I don't have anything</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to tell me what</font> happened to my son supposedly<font color="#CCCCCC"> alligators</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> agent a potential</font> feast of flesh<font color="#E5E5E5"> for a ferocious</font> congregation<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> cold-blooded</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> reptiles</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but Mike's mom says there is one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> big</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">problem and it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> has to do with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> weather remember it was bitterly<font color="#E5E5E5"> cold that day</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">alligators do not eat in cold water</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">alligators don't eat people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hole</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> if they</font> do attack<font color="#E5E5E5"> they chew on people they tear</font> arms and legs or<font color="#E5E5E5"> whatever but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">always parts found after an alligator</font> attack<font color="#E5E5E5"> but not an odd human bone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> nor</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> shred of human flesh has ever surfaced <font color="#E5E5E5">from those muddy waters and there's</font> something<font color="#CCCCCC"> else nobody</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> remember seeing</font> Mike at the lake<font color="#CCCCCC"> that morning did these</font> cold-blooded carnivores<font color="#E5E5E5"> consume Mike</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Williams</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he accidentally fell</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> his boat and drowned or was the</font> successful<font color="#E5E5E5"> handsome 31 year old husband</font> father<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> seasoned duck hunter the</font> victim of foul play<font color="#CCCCCC"> the search for Mike</font> Williams<font color="#E5E5E5"> was exhaustive there were</font> divers<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the water helicopters above</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">search crews on the ground with dogs</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> they searched<font color="#CCCCCC"> for 44 days more</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> than 700</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">man hours</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and they never did find Mike</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">or his body incredibly investigators</font> believe there may have been<font color="#E5E5E5"> nothing left</font> of Mike<font color="#E5E5E5"> after the alligators his</font> heartbroken mother is tortured by<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> thought<font color="#E5E5E5"> but says it wasn't the Gators</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> got her son</font> how did you die<font color="#CCCCCC"> we're going to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was it</font> quick <font color="#CCCCCC">it's horrible</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> every</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> single person that</font> went missing<font color="#CCCCCC"> on that Lake</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had been found</font> recovered whatever this was extremely <font color="#E5E5E5">unusual adding to the mystery</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Special Agent</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Devaney</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is told</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> alligators</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">become</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> zombie like they almost hibernate</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and don't really eat in wintertime word</font> got out<font color="#CCCCCC"> that maybe Mike was eaten by</font> alligators<font color="#CCCCCC"> a lot</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of people just assumed</font> that's what<font color="#E5E5E5"> happened to Mike however a</font> lot<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the folks who had been around</font> alligators<font color="#E5E5E5"> who had been around this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Lake</font> rather discounted<font color="#CCCCCC"> that because</font> alligators<font color="#E5E5E5"> don't eat people whole then</font> after months of searching<font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mike a</font> strange clue<font color="#E5E5E5"> suddenly surfaces all of a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sudden a hat appears but why wasn't a</font> hat found<font color="#E5E5E5"> during that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 day time trick</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> was floating on the surface again</font> real close to the area<font color="#E5E5E5"> where Mike put in</font> his boat<font color="#E5E5E5"> people couldn't quite figure</font> that out<font color="#E5E5E5"> they turned to Mike's best</font> buddy<font color="#E5E5E5"> Brian Winchester Mike's friend</font> Brian Winchester examined the<font color="#CCCCCC"> hat and he</font> told the folks<font color="#CCCCCC"> this looks</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like a hat</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mike may have owned but agent Devaney</font> says<font color="#E5E5E5"> a DNA test is inconclusive</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">very suspicious</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> things get</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> even stranger</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when a fisherman scoops up a pair</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> waders<font color="#CCCCCC"> they're the same kind Mike was</font> wearing when<font color="#E5E5E5"> he fell overboard</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">there's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> something mysterious about them</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">too let's talk about the mystery when</font> you found the waders <font color="#E5E5E5">was there any remnant of a human being</font> in there<font color="#E5E5E5"> there's you know no body parts</font> in there there's<font color="#E5E5E5"> no sign where an</font> alligator has<font color="#E5E5E5"> toll on the waders</font> whatsoever they were completely<font color="#E5E5E5"> intact</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">what do you make of that this was six</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">months after the initial search started</font> and you wonder<font color="#E5E5E5"> how did we miss this all</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> time</font> we can't connect<font color="#E5E5E5"> the dots there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a short</font> time<font color="#E5E5E5"> later divers at the scene</font> pull up<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike's hunting jacket his</font> hunting license is<font color="#E5E5E5"> still legible</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> even</font> his flashlight is still working<font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">six</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> months in the water</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wasn't that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">proof that he probably did drown the</font> condition of<font color="#E5E5E5"> these items were so</font> pristine<font color="#E5E5E5"> that there was no way that they</font> would<font color="#CCCCCC"> have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> been at the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bottom of this</font> lake<font color="#E5E5E5"> which is mossy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and algae coated</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they were</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> too new they were so clearly</font> planted Jennifer Portman is the news director at the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tallahassee Democrat</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">she'd never heard about the case until</font> six<font color="#CCCCCC"> years after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike mysteriously went</font> missing<font color="#CCCCCC"> what is it that got you</font> interested<font color="#E5E5E5"> well I was actually reading</font> our newspaper and saw an<font color="#E5E5E5"> advertisement</font> that said have you<font color="#CCCCCC"> seen my son and it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was this narrative that went down</font> written by Cheryl Williams<font color="#CCCCCC"> her son had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">disappeared at Lake Seminole they said</font> he was eaten<font color="#CCCCCC"> by alligators it was this</font> incredible mystery I couldn't believe<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> you see<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike's mom Cheryl never gave up</font> hope of finding her beloved son<font color="#E5E5E5"> she took</font> out full-page ads<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the newspaper and</font> on billboards<font color="#E5E5E5"> asking the public for help</font> she even<font color="#CCCCCC"> took to the streets calling for</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> criminal investigation but Mike's mom</font> says her pleas fell on deaf ears<font color="#CCCCCC"> all the</font> way up to the<font color="#E5E5E5"> governor's office</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I had to</font> write the story and so I went ahead and <font color="#CCCCCC">started reporting</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it so what is it that</font> you found<font color="#E5E5E5"> interesting in it</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> alligators eating immediately was</font> the thing<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you know as a reporter</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was like what it just seemed so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> bizarre</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then I started</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> going through the</font> reporting<font color="#E5E5E5"> of it and the record was so</font> thin but<font color="#E5E5E5"> there were these clues and</font> because of<font color="#CCCCCC"> course he died without</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a will</font> so the wife declaring him dead<font color="#E5E5E5"> after six</font> months<font color="#E5E5E5"> never finding the body it just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">all seemed very strange so why do you</font> think<font color="#E5E5E5"> it didn't get as much news</font> attention<font color="#CCCCCC"> at the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> time he was looked at</font> as someone<font color="#E5E5E5"> who drowned in Lake Seminole</font> we had a brief in the newspaper<font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> never followed up at the time his wife <font color="#E5E5E5">Denise Williams</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was not</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> interested in</font> publicity<font color="#CCCCCC"> and so it just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> kind of</font> disappeared<font color="#E5E5E5"> friends and family say</font> Mike's wife Denise was devastated after <font color="#CCCCCC">all she was only 31 a widow with a young</font> daughter<font color="#CCCCCC"> to raise alone she and Mike had</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">dated since the ninth</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> grade at a private</font> Christian school it was almost<font color="#E5E5E5"> cliche he</font> was a football<font color="#E5E5E5"> jock and she was a</font> cheerleader<font color="#E5E5E5"> he wanted more out of life</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">than he had growing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up Mike was on the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fast track of success he held</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> down two</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">jobs through college one was with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Ketchum Real Estate Appraisers</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> would you</font> say that Mike Williams<font color="#E5E5E5"> was a successful</font> businessman<font color="#CCCCCC"> if you measure</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> success by</font> money<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was successful</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> successful<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he had a beautiful</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">wife</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and he had his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> daughter Ansley that</font> he dearly loved so yeah I<font color="#E5E5E5"> think by most</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">standards he would be successful</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">normally in Florida you have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to wait</font> five<font color="#CCCCCC"> years before a missing person can</font> be<font color="#CCCCCC"> legally declared</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dead but just six</font> months<font color="#E5E5E5"> after Denise's husband vanished</font> without a trace <font color="#E5E5E5">she asked for the state to issue his</font> death certificate<font color="#CCCCCC"> I had no</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> idea</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I was</font> shocked<font color="#CCCCCC"> and what was the evidence</font> Denise used to convince<font color="#E5E5E5"> a judge her</font> husband met his demise at<font color="#E5E5E5"> the bottom of</font> the lake <font color="#E5E5E5">his hunting</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> jacket hunting license a</font> working<font color="#E5E5E5"> flashlight and the pristine pair</font> of waders<font color="#CCCCCC"> with no alligator holes you</font> think this evidence was planted<font color="#CCCCCC"> we're</font> convinced the evidence was<font color="#CCCCCC"> planted</font> Cheryl's crusade to open a criminal <font color="#E5E5E5">probe</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> seem</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to enrage her daughter-in-law</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike disappeared she threatened to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">me she said</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> if you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> do anything to get a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">criminal investigation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you're going to</font> lose access to Ansley<font color="#E5E5E5"> my granddaughter</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I'd already lost my husband</font> I lost<font color="#E5E5E5"> Michael</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and now she's telling me</font> I'm gonna lose Ansley I said what if that were Ansley missing would you not look for her she said<font color="#E5E5E5"> that's different</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I have to go</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">on with my life I don't ever want to</font> hear Mike's name<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't ever want to</font> see Mike's face<font color="#E5E5E5"> to this day a</font> heartbroken Cheryl hasn't seen her adorable granddaughter<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was time for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">me to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have a chat with Denise</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Denise okay</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> let's go</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then crime watch</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">daily sent a producer back to her house</font> but<font color="#E5E5E5"> when she saw</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> us coming</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Denise took</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">off out of the driveway did</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> alligator's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">really devour duck hunter Mike</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Williams</font> or did Mike fall victim to<font color="#E5E5E5"> another kind</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of maneater</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I believe he was killed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> I believe his body was<font color="#E5E5E5"> taken</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> somewhere</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">else and I believe his truck and boat</font> was left over there staged over<font color="#E5E5E5"> there</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">how much insurance money did his wife</font> get there were two insurance policies one that was written<font color="#E5E5E5"> about six months</font> before he<font color="#E5E5E5"> went missing that was for 1.5</font> million<font color="#E5E5E5"> dollars</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> don't know if Mike</font> ever knew<font color="#E5E5E5"> that this insurance</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> policy was</font> taken<font color="#E5E5E5"> out though it was filled out as if</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> was him</font> retired Jackson County Sheriff<font color="#CCCCCC"> Derrick</font> Webster inherited the case<font color="#E5E5E5"> four years</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">after Mike vanished</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hadn't been for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his mother</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a criminal investigation</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> have never been open it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would have</font> been a<font color="#E5E5E5"> missing person that was never</font> found<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was Mike's widow Denise who was</font> the beneficiary of a huge life insurance policy you encouraged Mike<font color="#E5E5E5"> to buy as</font> much life<font color="#CCCCCC"> insurance as possible sure</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font> old boss<font color="#E5E5E5"> clay Ketchum was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like a father</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to Mike and he said what would be your</font> advice<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I said Mike</font> given your age at life and given your risky behavior I<font color="#E5E5E5"> would buy all the life</font> insurance<font color="#CCCCCC"> I could what was Brian</font> Winchester's role in all<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this Brian</font> Winchester sold insurance Brian Winchester was close pals with Mike and<font color="#E5E5E5"> Denise is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that suspicious to me</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">yeah</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Brian Winchester had someone in my</font> life as sure as<font color="#E5E5E5"> positive the suspicion</font> is is that his wife went ahead and did this with Brian and Mike was<font color="#CCCCCC"> unaware</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> it <font color="#CCCCCC">Cley catch them said alarm bells went</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">off for him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> too when Mike first went</font> missing <font color="#E5E5E5">Brian Winchester called me he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> said</font> there's a new development<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the Game</font> and Fish Commission<font color="#E5E5E5"> or FWC believes that</font> he may have<font color="#CCCCCC"> been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> eaten by an alligator</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> thought it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was possible</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> drowned<font color="#CCCCCC"> until you heard</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the alligators</font> story yeah the alligator story was when I <font color="#E5E5E5">started wondering as to whether Mike was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">really in that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> light</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there was another</font> thing<font color="#E5E5E5"> investigators</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> found curious</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mike's shotgun</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the one that was found in</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> empty boat it's not for duck</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hunting</font> and<font color="#CCCCCC"> Ketchum says Mike kept all his guns</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the office for safety to enter</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font> hours a personal password<font color="#CCCCCC"> is needed to</font> turn off the<font color="#E5E5E5"> alarm</font> do you have any record or any way of knowing<font color="#CCCCCC"> whether he actually came in here</font> to get his shotgun<font color="#CCCCCC"> I can't tell you Mike</font> Williams came in here I can tell you that the door opened<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike Williams code</font> was inserted<font color="#E5E5E5"> catch some regrets never</font> telling<font color="#E5E5E5"> investigators at the time that</font> Mike had a terrible secret weighing on his shoulders<font color="#CCCCCC"> the seemingly perfect</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">marriage to his high school</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sweetheart</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Denise was on the rocks</font> Mike had confided in me<font color="#CCCCCC"> 30 days prior</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> disappearance</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that there was some</font> issues within<font color="#E5E5E5"> the marriage what kind of</font> problems were Mike and his wife<font color="#E5E5E5"> having</font> you know I don't<font color="#E5E5E5"> really know it had</font> something<font color="#CCCCCC"> to do with finances I know</font> that and it<font color="#CCCCCC"> was having</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to do with a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">credit-card</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> charge and it exceeded the</font> limit that Mike and Denise had set for themselves<font color="#E5E5E5"> and that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was bothersome</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">bothersome</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in watch in which way I mean</font> my guess<font color="#CCCCCC"> is it wasn't Mike</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who charged</font> the money<font color="#E5E5E5"> and that it wasn't something</font> that he would<font color="#E5E5E5"> have necessarily agreed to</font> I think<font color="#CCCCCC"> it had to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> do with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> though like a</font> trust issue the huge<font color="#CCCCCC"> life-insurance</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> policies would</font> likely assure<font color="#CCCCCC"> Denise</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that she'd</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> never</font> have to pinch<font color="#CCCCCC"> pennies again</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but there</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> another theory that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> surfaced about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">what could have happened to Mike did he</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fake</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his own death</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it wasn't long after</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">his disappearance several</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> folks raised</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> idea that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because of Mike's good</font> salary at that age<font color="#CCCCCC"> could</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> have used</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">some</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> money just to leave start a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">new</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> life</font> if<font color="#E5E5E5"> people knew Mike you know that's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">really kind of a stupid</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> thing to say</font> Mike was extremely devoted<font color="#E5E5E5"> to his</font> daughter Ansley<font color="#CCCCCC"> when he disappeared in</font> Mike's bond with his mother and<font color="#E5E5E5"> his and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his brother you know extremely strong</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ink</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was barely dry</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on Mike's death</font> certificate when his mom<font color="#E5E5E5"> found out that</font> her daughter-in-law<font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> having a torrid</font> affair with her son's best<font color="#E5E5E5"> friend Brian</font> Winchester we were told only most occasions<font color="#E5E5E5"> that Brian and Denise were</font> having affair<font color="#E5E5E5"> before he went missing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">long before the husband went</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> missing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> in fact Brian Winchester actually got a divorce<font color="#E5E5E5"> and married his best friend's</font> wife<font color="#E5E5E5"> there's enough pain here with the</font> disappearance of your<font color="#E5E5E5"> brother but add to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that his wife then goes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and marries his</font> best friend and then they are living<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> your<font color="#CCCCCC"> brother's old house there's a lot</font> of anger<font color="#E5E5E5"> because I know they're sitting</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in over a million</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dollars was it like a</font> dagger<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the heart when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she married</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">your brother's best</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> friend it was it</font> seemed the grieving widow<font color="#E5E5E5"> was now</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">merry widow</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with a new</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hubby</font> the Gators didn't do it so was Mike Williams<font color="#CCCCCC"> a successful real estate</font> executive<font color="#E5E5E5"> loving husband and father</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">murdered for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his money</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a question</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> came</font> up when his spouse<font color="#E5E5E5"> started to inquire</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">about obtaining the insurance monies</font> during the search<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike's mother and</font> brother say his widow<font color="#CCCCCC"> Denise has been</font> living on<font color="#CCCCCC"> easy street since</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> she</font> collected at least<font color="#E5E5E5"> 1.5 million dollars</font> in death benefits<font color="#CCCCCC"> when we were talking</font> about<font color="#E5E5E5"> who stood to benefit from Mike</font> Williams<font color="#E5E5E5"> being declared dead</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it looks</font> like it would<font color="#E5E5E5"> have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> been his wife right</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there were two insurance policies one</font> that was written<font color="#CCCCCC"> about six months before</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he went missing by his best friend Brian</font> Winchester that was for 1.5 million <font color="#E5E5E5">dollars what would</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be the words to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">describe this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> think it definitely</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">raises eyebrows as to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> maybe what was</font> going on surrounding Mike's disappearance adding to the<font color="#CCCCCC"> suspicions</font> Denise<font color="#E5E5E5"> marries the man who wrote those</font> insurance policies<font color="#CCCCCC"> Mike's best friend</font> Brian Winchester<font color="#E5E5E5"> then she reportedly</font> cuts the family cord with Mike's mom and big brother<font color="#E5E5E5"> Nick</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it makes it seem so</font> calculated it does<font color="#E5E5E5"> would you ever call</font> Denise Williams<font color="#CCCCCC"> the grieving widow how</font> it's been characterized to<font color="#E5E5E5"> me is she was</font> not that way<font color="#E5E5E5"> that she moved on pretty</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">swiftly and was ready to just put Mike</font> behind<font color="#E5E5E5"> her initially investigators</font> looked at<font color="#E5E5E5"> the case as a tragic boating</font> accident<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike possibly drowned and his</font> corpse was eaten by<font color="#E5E5E5"> alligators but there</font> are a bunch<font color="#CCCCCC"> of clues from the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> scene</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">don't add up one his boat was found with</font> a full<font color="#E5E5E5"> tank of gas like it had never</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">been used</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that day</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shotgun Mike's</font> brother<font color="#E5E5E5"> says it was not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the one Mike</font> used to hunt<font color="#E5E5E5"> ducks three his gear</font> Mike's jacket<font color="#E5E5E5"> waders even his hunting</font> license were not found until<font color="#E5E5E5"> six</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> months</font> after Mike disappeared<font color="#E5E5E5"> and despite all</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> time in the water they were all in</font> pristine <font color="#CCCCCC">addition not a single tooth mark from an</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">alligator</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and number four is the biggest</font> mystery<font color="#E5E5E5"> there was not a shred of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mike</font> and piecing together<font color="#E5E5E5"> what appears to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pretty sinister strange story there is</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">no physical</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> evidence so at every turn</font> it's really tough the no arrests are made no suspects<font color="#E5E5E5"> are named because all</font> you can get<font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this story</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that seems</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">suspicious but it doesn't kind of cross</font> that line into<font color="#E5E5E5"> where you can actually</font> take any action with<font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font> investigators launched an insurance probe but couldn't prove anything <font color="#E5E5E5">underhanded</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what they were trying to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> do</font> was prove insurance fraud<font color="#E5E5E5"> and that would</font> involve that he was killed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to get the</font> money but<font color="#E5E5E5"> Nick believes there may be a</font> reason<font color="#CCCCCC"> why</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> brother's best</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> friend</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">married his former sister-in-law</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and he</font> says it<font color="#CCCCCC"> wasn't just for love</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they were</font> actually married<font color="#E5E5E5"> and so no I wasn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">really shocked just because if they were</font> involved<font color="#E5E5E5"> in killing my collecting all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this insurance they want to get married</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and not</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have to testify against each</font> other one day despite<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> brothers</font> allegations<font color="#E5E5E5"> Brian Winchester has never</font> been charged or named as a suspect in Mike Williams<font color="#E5E5E5"> mysterious</font> disappearance<font color="#CCCCCC"> I wanted</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to get his side</font> of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> story</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so I went to Brian's</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Insurance office</font> Brian Winchester it's Anna Garcia<font color="#CCCCCC"> from</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">crime</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> watch</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> daily Brian</font> guess he's<font color="#E5E5E5"> not here shortly after my</font> visit<font color="#CCCCCC"> we find out there is big</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> trouble</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in his marriage with Denise Winchester</font> is arrested for allegedly kidnapping <font color="#E5E5E5">Denise and holding her at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gunpoint in</font> her<font color="#E5E5E5"> car</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he was reportedly distraught</font> over<font color="#E5E5E5"> their impending divorce</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> allegedly tells her he's going<font color="#E5E5E5"> to kill</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">himself</font> this is<font color="#E5E5E5"> Denise</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at her estranged</font> husband's<font color="#E5E5E5"> arraignment recounting to the</font> court her day of<font color="#CCCCCC"> Terror</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he was waiting</font> for<font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the back of my car</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with a gun</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> grabbed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the steering wheel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shoved</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the gun in my rib cage</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> screaming</font> profanities<font color="#E5E5E5"> uncontrollably at me I will</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">never be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the same</font> I would never<font color="#CCCCCC"> anyone I can't sleep I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">can't eat because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I only see him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">rising up out of the back of the car</font> because all I feel is the gun shoved in my<font color="#E5E5E5"> ribs</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I can't have peace because</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> only hear his voice screaming<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> cussing at me please<font color="#E5E5E5"> don't let him out</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Denyce also reads a plea</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from her now</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">teenaged daughter she had with Mike</font> Williams<font color="#E5E5E5"> begging the judge to keep her</font> stepfather<font color="#E5E5E5"> behind bars she</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is all I have</font> please don't let him out<font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> will come</font> for<font color="#CCCCCC"> her and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I will have no one I am</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">going to find probable cause as to the</font> three arrest charges of kidnapping aggravated assault<font color="#E5E5E5"> with a deadly weapon</font> Brian Winchester has pleaded not<font color="#E5E5E5"> guilty</font> to these<font color="#E5E5E5"> charges but Mike's family</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font> wondering if<font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> could be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the break</font> homicide detectives have<font color="#CCCCCC"> been waiting</font> for<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mike's brother is hoping one of them</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">will</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> now break their silence I think</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">it's just gonna take a confession from</font> one<font color="#E5E5E5"> of them to to crack the case the</font> chances of<font color="#E5E5E5"> this ever being solved are so</font> slim<font color="#E5E5E5"> unless whoever was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> involved in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> ends up<font color="#CCCCCC"> confessing</font> if Brian<font color="#E5E5E5"> and Denise were standing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> right</font> here with me I would tell them I<font color="#E5E5E5"> don't</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">know why they're not cooperating with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the law enforcement people and I don't</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">know why they're not</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> offering some type</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of reward</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> if you've got that kind</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> life insurance<font color="#CCCCCC"> money certainly you could</font> participate<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the solving of this case</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and if it was my wife</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> who was missing</font> and I had the<font color="#CCCCCC"> resources</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I would not stop</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">until we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> got a solution to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and that's</font> strange to me<font color="#CCCCCC"> Denise has never been</font> charged<font color="#E5E5E5"> in Mike's disappearance Mike's</font> mother would love to be<font color="#CCCCCC"> able to ask her</font> former daughter-in-law<font color="#CCCCCC"> what she knows</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but denise is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not talking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to her or</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">anybody in Mike's family</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you think</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">someone killed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I think it's very</font> possible somebody<font color="#E5E5E5"> killed him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I only have</font> two choices<font color="#E5E5E5"> where Mike's concerns he can</font> be dead or I can hold<font color="#E5E5E5"> that hope but he's</font> alive somewhere<font color="#E5E5E5"> and right now until</font> somebody can<font color="#E5E5E5"> bring me absolute</font> when it proof that Michael<font color="#E5E5E5"> is dead I'm</font> gonna<font color="#E5E5E5"> believe that it's gonna come home</font> [Music]
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Length: 25min 58sec (1558 seconds)
Published: Fri Oct 19 2018
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