chance to reach out to ellen, she was calling him complaining about that article. >> she said where did you get this information? she was upset that it portrayed that he was just an innocent man, father, that had disappeared. >> the article didn't implicate you. >> yes, it did. >> i read it. it doesn't, like, lay the blame at your feet. >> yes, it does. >> she and michaeling had a heated discussion and that the next morning when she woke up, he was gone. he hadn't taken a vehicle. >> ellen told the detective she was pretty sure that mike had initially moved to phoenix, home of his lover, dave simmons, but more recently she believed he had moved on to the caribbean. >> she said he is probably on an island somewhere. >> we had looked at land on st. croix. as far as i knew, i figured that he had gone to st. croix. >> and that that's where he was