ty ulrich. they said susie always answers her phone, always. and i went to my office twice and tried to call. and to voice mail. in the town the size of glendive, the police were keenly aware of susie s history. six months prior at the hands of soon to be ex-husband ted. i had a little insight and kind of knew the dynamics. but then val told the chief susie s life had just become even more complicated. the night before she disappeared, said val, susie was with another man. a guy named brad, who she said she was crazy about. and who had to have been the last person to see her before she vanished. did you ever wonder about brad and whether he was capable of any bad things? when she went missing, i wondered about everybody. everybody was a suspect. everybody was, your mind just continues to play and play and
you know, there was a lot of talk about about we saw her walking about down the street sometime. maybe somebody picture up. the young attorney and fleming acquaintance olivia reager, couldn t help but hear what people were seeing. did she go home with someone? did she drive off somewhere? susie s mother was afraid something awful had happened. and for the second time she called sister karlyne, two hours away in north dakota. and that s when i knew something was really, really wrong. and so we packed up suitcases and headed to glendive to see what we could do to help find her. but where could they look? glendive is the biggest town in a sparsely populated county the size of delaware. far more hiding places than there are people. we had a few things off a cell phone tower. so we had maybe a nice way of were her phone would ve been last. we had horseback, four wheeler
many of them turn up again. and maybe in some big cities somewhere susie s absence wouldn t have raised the alarm quite so fast. but here olivia reager was a young lawyer than. i just thought, you have to be kidding. this is glendive, she has to be around somewhere. but when susie s brother and sister in law roared around town looking, it only made them more upset. as a kid, when you re younger, you always wish you had things you didn t have. and i just always wished i had a big sister. and when i met susie, she was my big sister. and i guess i just never imagined that she wouldn t be in my life. mid afternoon, val and her husband rusty drove over to the glendive police department. they sat down with then captain
was never made clear. but he was convicted of criminal trespass and was slapped with a lifetime restraining order. no contact with susie or ted. ever. at that point i had a red flag go up. i said boy, this is something we need to look at here. to judge from his 22 phone messages, marty and, by the way he s given first name was walter, was very worried about susie. desperate even, as those nighttime hours went by without a word from her. but marty still live three hours away in buildings. so is that where he was calling from? one surefire way to find out, check the cell towers. we looked at marty s cell phone and we actually see him pinging from buildings all the way to glendive. it s a long, lonely road. and even at the elevated speeds
police started with the men in her life. was one of them behind her death? everybody was a suspect. the estranged husband you know you are a person of interest? the ex. the brand-new boyfriend. somebody knew that we were seeing each other and didn t like it. and the unbelievable thing that, they were all there in the morning of the murder. so who did it? my stomach was in my throat. all of us were a little taken aback. it was really hard for my brain to wrap around that. it was early morning, still dark. the spring air was a cold blanket around the pick up parked and running near the main street of little glendive, montana. at 5:20 am, the passenger side door open a woman stepped out