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it turns out the man impersonating timothy wick was someone police knew very well. his real name was dennis gaede. so the big question is, where is timothy wicks and what happened to him? we don t know where to go. so we figure what we need to do is we got to find dennis. at this point, dennis gaede, posing as tim wicks, was scheduled to be questioned by fargo detective tammy lynx about allegations of stealing from his employers. well, he doesn t show up for the interview. we re really shocked by that. back in wisconsin detective schoonover wasn t shocked because, in a short amount of time, he d already learned a lot about dennis gaede. none of it good. we found his ex-wife, talked to her. we found his mother, talked to her. everybody we talked to basically
to let her know what he was going do with the apartment, and he left a phone number with her saying if you need me for some reason, here s a phone number. though the cell phone number was eventually traced to fargo, north dakota, it did not lead to tim wicks. but when schoonover called the fargo police department he got a lucky break. tim wicks was a name they already knew, same birthday, same social security number, except in fargo, north dakota, timothy wicks was not known for his drumming. i told detective schoonover that mr. wicks was a suspect in an embezzlement case i was currently working on and that later that afternoon i had an interview with him at the police station. you may be solving a missing person s case this afternoon? that s what i thought. could it be the easy-going drummer family and friends in the milwaukee area describe had an alter ego and was now passing himself off as an accountant in fargo? true, tim wicks run his own painting business and kept his o
that purchase was made, tim wicks was dead. in milwaukee, the case was beginning to receive media attention. descriptions of gaede and fruge broadcast, which helped detective schoonover uncovers even more leads. such as what happened to the car tim wicks drove to fargo. and so we called up the dealership where he bought it, and when we talked to them they said, we have the car here. okay. what happened? he said that a couple of days ago a lady came in to the teal areship, gave the keys to the car to a salesman and said my husband can t make the payments anymore and gives him the keys, hops in the car and takes off. he was also chasing a money trail. after news broke of tim wicks death his bank called to report unusual transactions. we found out that someone called and identified himself as timothy wicks and went to their
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