fiction? these text messages don t even seem real. like they don t, they just don t seem real. long before kevin mengel had a cellphone or a facebook page he was a high school guy in suburban philadelphia with a cute little sister to worry about. kevin was the stereotypical older brother. he would follow me around and tell all of his friend they weren t allowed to talk to me and things like that. reporter: was he being protective? very protective. reporter: for as long as michelle can remember, kevin mengel was a family man, a big brother who felt he needed to look after his younger siblings after their parents divorced. kevin had a terrible time with it. right. and just always told us that he would never get a divorce, he would never get a divorce. reporter: instead, kevin grew up in search of perfect romance. kevin always had girlfriends. but he was always sort of a
landscaping jobs. he noticed morgan, the boss s wife, flirting with a 21-year-old employee named steve shappell. morgan looks at me and says, steve knows what color underwear i have on. and steve s like, yeah, pink with black stripes. right off the bat. and when al had a question about an assignment i would call morgan and steve is there. steve is answering her phone. why was this kid who mowed lawns and was barely old enough to buy a beer suddenly acting like the new man in charge? kevin s sister, michelle, remembered him as a quiet, unassuming young guy who had done some work on her yard weeks earlier. this kid steve could not have been more polite to us. so what would kevin think now of his employee spending the workday at the pool with his wife and kids as michelle observed when she took a drive by? i drove by her development and she was sitting out at the pool with steve and the kids. okay. you see steve sitting with her and you re thinking what?
she would tell me how they would have sex in her and kevin s bed when he would go out, how they would have sex in the cars, you know, the business cars. i said to myself, you know, she s not right. there s something wrong with her. and kevin s family? by now they were sure morgan and the young landscaper were up to something. michelle confronted morgan directly. i said, i m not okay with this, like he just disappeared. like i don t believe you, like i don t. adding to their worry, they say morgan had not let them see the three kids since kevin disappeared and they worried she might leave town. they asked the detective if he would do surveillance on the apartment, but he said no. i said based on the fact that we had a witness that saw him, the fact that i now know that morgan and kevin have a troubled relationship, i thought that maybe kevin really was just fed up and had enough of morgan and left.
you nightmare that something had happened to kevin and that kevin was hurt, and i woke up crying hysterically in my bed. michelle hopkins, kevin mengel s younger sister, was now in a waking nightmare. her brother kevin had been missing for a week, and the young man who appeared to be having an affair with her sister-in-law had just fled from police. why did he just steal her pickup truck and flee when i asked him to come back to the police station? the situation suddenly looked much worse than detective david maurer had thought. he brought morgan to the station and called his partner and long-time friend, darryn sedlack. he said, can you get in here, something is going on. i m not sure what but shappell just stole morgan s truck and fled and we can t find him. we had no idea it was going to turn out the way that it did. their first priority was to find steve shappell, who was now on the lam. they tried tracking his cell which was in the truck, but it was turned off. but mor
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