i didn t know how he planned to get tim up there. a few months later, as jeff paridon and gene maxwell from compressed air technologies were beginning to ask questions of embezzlement of the business, she says gaede called wicks to finalize the phony music gig, telling him to come to north dakota so they could drive to canada together. during wicks first day at their house, fruge said he painted their staircase, plays with her son joshua, and seemed excited about the upcoming job. it was during the evening of his second day that everything changed. about 8:00 or 9:00 i gave joshy a bath and took him upstairs, and dennis and tim were like drinking and partying and stuff downstairs, and me and josh went to bed. and are they hitting it off like old friends? oh, yeah, drinking, smoking pot. what s the next thing you remember? dennis waking me up in a panic.
these men say they hired wicks through a placement service to works an accountant for their business in fargo. i liked him. he was very personable guy. jeff paridon and gene maxwell owned compressed air technologies. at first he did well in his job. he socialized outside of work and even went hunting with his boss. he talked more about his outdoorsman past that he had had some wound up in the upper u.p., in a cabin, i believe. the upper peninsula of michigan. correct. what about guns? he stated he was a collector of guns and that he was very fascinated with them. they say he also mentioned that he was a drummer. i took him out one night to a club where they had a jam night going on, and tim got up and played, not as good as what he thought he was, but he he could keep a beat, i guess. but then trouble.
to be tim wicks is really dennis gaede. a search of wicks apartment turns up a tax return that is signed at the bottom by the preparer, dennis gaede. my gut is telling me that tim is dead, but we can t prove it, we don t have a body, we don t know. then the police tell it, wrapped out the details of a grisly discovery on the side of the road. on the upper michigan side, the detective had a feeling. gene maxwell and jeff paridon, who knew dennis gaede as tim wicks, mentioned that he said his family had a cabin up there. and the generalities of the body description met the very general description and size of timothy wicks. of course, lots of people can match that description. plus, the head which was found on the wisconsin side of the river with a single bullet hole in it was badly decomposed. we need dental records. and now we have to figure out who timothy wicks dentist was. and then one of our officer s remembers seeing an appointment card in the apartment. so they go bac