to his truck. he said he didn t know roy s last name and never saw either of them again. the police are looking for a mysterious roy. they don t have a last name for this man. all they know is that he s the last one seen with michelle. investigators suspected roy was the key to michelle wallace s disappearance. every day, people fall. from a simple misstep, to tripping over a rug, to just losing their balance. and not being able to get up from a fall can have serious, lifetime consequences. being prepared is important. philips lifeline with autoalert is more than just a medical alert button. it s an advanced fall detection system designed to get you help quickly. if you fall and you re unable to push your button, the fall detection technology within autoalert can trigger the button to automatically place a call for help. our us-based staff will make sure you get the help
when local officials were told she was missing, they instituted what was to become the largest manhunt in colorado history. there were hundreds of people in the woods literally walking hand in hand across fields and mountains. search teams covered more than 3,000 square miles of isolated mountain landscape but found no sign of michelle or her red station wagon. it was as if michelle had simply disappeared. then, a week after she was reported missing, there was a potential break. a local rancher told police about a german shepherd that had come down from the mountains and chased his cattle. the rancher said he shot and killed the dog. the name on the dog s collar was okie, michelle s german shepherd.
under a microscope, snyder visually compared samples from michelle s hair brush to the braided hair, looking for similarities in color, consistency, and structure. microscopic characteristics were very consistent with each other. the widths were the same. the medullary component was the same. the center portions and the mid-region portions of the hair were the same. but this was not conclusive. microscopic similarity is still not a match. but with this new evidence, detective ireland was not again. so she contacted a group of scientists with an odd mission and an unusual name. they called themselves necrosearch, and they find bodies no one else seems to find. we are a multidisciplinary,
she was known primarily for her photos of people. but she decided to try her hand at landscape photography, and she headed to the mountainous wilderness of western colorado. she rode polo ponies and branded cows and went rock climbing and was a student at the rochester institute and was quite a student of photography. she was a realist and she knew how to face things and worked through them. michelle faithfully called her parents almost every day to let them know where she was and what she was doing. but when several days passed without a call, her parents became alarmed. i knew that she didn t run off. you know, they said, well, this is one of these girls that, you know, just decides she s a free spirit and off she goes. she was not that way.
i was able to parallel the information that was provided on the tapes with information that i simply saw with my own eyes looking at the dead body on the morning that i did the autopsy. as far as i am concerned, her death is intentional homicide. for almost 20 years a young woman was believed to be missing in the dense colorado mountains. but 12 small pine needles and a clump of hair suggested that investigators narrow their search to an area 9,000 feet above sea level. this is how forensic plant ecology helped solve a very cold case. after graduating from college, 25-year-old michelle wallace decided to pursue her love of photography.